Inter-Service Intelligence Organisations. Note by the Secretary

be collecting information more or less independently of one another. If demands for factual intelligence were all canalised through I.S.(0), an enormous amount of duplication could be avoided. I appreciate that the Applicants may want their information in slightly different form and for different purposes, but basically it is the same. 5. If I.S.(0) were properly used, they would not only know exactly where to collect the best and latest information, but they would also know whether it had recently been produced for some other Applicant and be able to relieve the Producers of a considerable amount of work by supplying the new Applicant with information already produced, merely referring to the Producers for such additional or modified information as might be required.