A file of weekly situation reports from the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC), produced just before the outbreak of the Second World War. The reports were distributed under strict conditions of secrecy to a limited number of people including Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, Lord Halifax and Winston Churchill. Among the topics discussed in the reports were the political situation in Europe, including German-Polish relations and the prospects for American, Spanish, and Turkish neutrality; Anglo-Soviet negotiations; German military activity, including the build-up of troops along the Polish border; Italian troop movements in the Mediterranean; German economic readiness for war, including raw material stocks; the threat posed by German warships to British trade; and the early stages of the German invasion of Poland.
- Collection ID
- FO1093
- Conflict
- Second World War
- Countries
- Albania Australia Austria Belgium Bulgaria Canada China Czechoslovakia Denmark Egypt Estonia Finland France Germany Great Britain Greece Holland Hungary Iraq Ireland Italian East Africa Italy Japan Latvia Libya Mongolia Morocco Netherlands Norway Palestine Panama Poland Romania Russia Soviet Union Spain Sweden Switzerland Syria Turkey United Kingdom United States of America West Germany Yugoslavia
- Document Reference
- FO 1093/125/2
- Document Types
- Report
- File Reference
- FO 1093/125
- Identifier
- 10.1080/swwf.fo1093.0125.002
- Keywords
- Intelligence Reports Military Situation Reports Secrecy Intelligence Distribution Politics Diplomacy Predicting Enemy Intentions German War Aims German Foreign Policy Military Intelligence Troop Movements Spanish Armed Forces Italian Armed Forces Sino-japanese War Axis Powers German Army German-italian Relations Turkish Neutrality War Materials Threat Of War With Japan Naval Operations German Navy Spanish Neutrality Propaganda Anglo-american Relations Yugoslav Foreign Policy Anglo-soviet Relations Press Reports Mobilisation American Neutrality United States Navy Economy Imports Trade Warships Invasion Of Poland
- Languages
- English
- Organizations
- Foreign Office Geheime Staatspolizei Joint Intelligence Sub-Committee League of Nations Situation Report Centre Permanent Under-Secretary's Department
- Pages
- 99
- Persons Discussed
- Andrew Barnard Edward Bridges Alexander Cadogan Winston Churchill Francisco Franco Adolf Hitler Samuel Hoare Benito Mussolini Richard Peirse Phillipe Pétain Joachim von Ribbentrop Franklin Delano Roosevelt Robert Vansittart
- Published in
- United Kingdom
- Themes
- Surveillance Military Intelligence International Relations
