Joint Intelligence Bureau (JIB): Correspondence with the Burma Office

A file of reports, correspondence, and memoranda concerning Joint Intelligence Bureau (JIB) activities in the Commonwealth. Subjects discussed in this file include a report on the JIB’s organisation, functions, and staff; the publication of intelligence gathered by the JIB in the Commonwealth; intelligence liaison with the government of newly-independent Burma; the distribution of intelligence questionnaires; the creation of JIB intelligence networks overseas; a debate over whether to make approaches to the Burmese leader Aung Sang; a JIB staff list and intelligence requirements; intelligence gathering in India; the political situation in Burma; the gathering of economic intelligence, and its use to make economic forecasts about the Commonwealth; a list of JIB handbooks, along with their circulation-list; and two editions of weekly reviews of the Middle Eastern press, focusing on economic intelligence.