Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) Sub-Committee on Security: Volume 2; Classifications and Markings

A file of reports, memoranda, and correspondence concerning British intelligence-sharing with foreign nations during the early stages of the Cold War. Subjects discussed in this file include the security of British military intelligence and communications; the defence of Western Europe, including the formation of the Western Union Defence Organisation; an assessment of security threats to the British Dominions, including India, Canada, South Africa, and New Zealand; a list of cabinet papers passed to Commonwealth authorities; the declassification of papers relating to the Combined Chiefs of Staff; press leakages of information relating to British defence plans; responsibility for the security of deception operations; the release of information to the Romanian government; and colonial naval defence plans.