1. Chinese Communist Threat in the Far East and South East Asia; 2. Soviet Threat to Malta; 3. Military Clauses of the Sino-Soviet Treaty; 4. Exchange of Information with the Americans on Arms Traffic

2. SOVIET THREAT TO MALTA TOP SECRET THE COMMITTEE considered a report by the Joint Intelligence Committee Middle East-, on the Soviet threat to Malta, together with a minute by the SecretaryX covering comments by the Joint Intelligence Staff thereon. MR. WHITE referred to paragraph 2 of the comments by the Joint Intelligence Staff which suggested that the report was incomplete without some mention of the strength of Communism and likely Communist activities in the Island. There was no organised Communist party in Malta, and Communist propaganda of all kinds was proscribed.