Scale and Nature of Threat to Sea Communications - 1954

A volume of reports commissioned for the Joint Intelligence 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 measures to address inadequate security arrangements in France; the likelihood and probable course of a war with the Soviet Union; the scale of air attack on the United Kingdom in the event of war; the communist threat to Greece, Iran, East Asia, and South Asia; the weaknesses of communist China; the progress of the First Indochina War; the military situation in Korea; information sharing with the American intelligence services; and travel restrictions on Soviet and Soviet satellite missions in the UK.