Russo-German Peace. Note by Secretary. [Feudal 140 Sent 27.8.43]

A volume of reports commissioned for the Joint Intelligence Sub-Committee (JIC). The JIC was formed of representatives from the intelligence services, the armed services, and the Foreign Office. Its purpose was to assess military, security, and foreign policy requirements and coordinate Britain’s intelligence organisations accordingly. A vast range of international and domestic issues are investigated and analysed in the JIC’s reports. Subjects covered in this file include Nazi-Soviet peace proposals; Allied strategy, and a proposed timetable for the defeat of Japan; Soviet intentions in Norway; planning for Allied operations to recapture South East Asia; German manpower and resources and the possibility of a German collapse; the effects of bombing raids on Romanian oil fields; the military and political situation in the Balkans; the possibility of the Germans using poison gas; the financial costs of coastal defence artillery batteries in Britain; and the military situation on the Eastern Front.