Prime Minister's Secret Service Committee: Minutes of Meetings

A file of meeting minutes of the Prime Minister's 1925 Secret Service Committee, discussing the organisation of the secret services in the 1920s. Topics of discussion include the organisation of British intelligence services, including the possibility of consolidating them into one single organisation; problems of liaison, coordination, and intelligence-sharing; the different responsibilities of the services for intelligence gathering and operations; responsibility for the Code and Cypher school; the development and separation of the Security Service (MI5) and the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), including a statement on this topic by Vernon Kell; intelligence gathering in Ireland; intelligence funding; use of agents and informants; liaison with the police; the dangers of concentrating too much power within one organisation; military intelligence requirements; and the monitoring of subversive and revolutionary elements.