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1. Formation of American Joint Intelligence Committee in London; 2. Intelligence in India and the Far East; 3. Unnecessary Length of Telegrams; 4. Liaison on W/T Security Matters with the Americans; 5. American Army Cyphers; 6. Joint Intelligence Staff Organisation; 7. Intelligence Section (Operations); 8. German Intentions; 9. Enemy Intentions

1942

(b) Departments in practice periodically sent out instructions that economy of words in telegrams should be enforced: (c) On the whole, the worst offenders were abroad and not in London: (d) It might be desirable that each Department should appoint an Officer whose duty it would be to scrutinise all incoming and outgoing telegrams and bring to the attention of the appropriate authorities any cases where unnecessary or unduly lengthy telegrams were being sent or received: (e) Alternatively, the Cypher Security Committee could draw the attention of Departments to cases of such unnecessary or unduly lengthy telegrams: (f) It was suggested that the Cypher Security Committee should extend its enquiries to the Civil Departments that sent telegrams abroad and should report such cases as they thought fit to the Subcommittee.
india security united states of america information sharing international relations second world war liaison signals intelligence intelligence gathering wireless communications joint intelligence staff joint intelligence sub-committee chiefs of staff foreign office telegraph communications anglo-american relations british intelligence organisation intelligence organization ministry of economic warfare intelligence distribution joint planning staff intelligence section (operations) victor cavendish-bentinck denis capel-dunn code-breaking cyphers geoffrey vickers predicting enemy intentions francis davidson thomas haddon john godfrey w/t security committee
Collection ID
CAB81
Conflict
Second World War
Countries
India United States of America
Document Reference
CAB 81/90/10
Document Types
Summary
File Reference
CAB 81/90
Identifier
10.1080/swwf.cab81.0090.010
Keywords
Anglo-american Relations Information Sharing Intelligence Distribution Intelligence Gathering Telegraph Communications Liaison Security Wireless Communications Cyphers British Intelligence Organisation Predicting Enemy Intentions
Languages
English
Organizations
Chiefs of Staff Foreign Office Intelligence Section (Operations) Joint Intelligence Sub-Committee Joint Intelligence Staff Joint Planning Staff Ministry of Economic Warfare W/T Security Committee
Pages
6
Persons Discussed
Denis Capel-Dunn Victor Cavendish-Bentinck Francis Davidson John Godfrey Thomas Haddon Geoffrey Vickers
Published in
United Kingdom
Series
War Cabinet. Joint Intelligence Sub-Committee. Meetings. January - December 1942. Numbers 1-63. Volume IV
Themes
International Relations Intelligence Organization Signals Intelligence Code-breaking

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