TOP SECRET ANNEX. COMMENTS BY THE JOINT INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE ON A REPORT BY THE JOINT INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE (MIDDLE EAST) ON "RUSSIAN ACTION AGAINST GREECE IN THE EVENT OF MAJOR WAR". General. 1. Date. We consider that it would be preferable for this reportø to be related to a specific date. Whilst the combined Anglo-American Intelligence appreciation* on "Soviet Intentions and Capabilities" is still our basic intelligence study, we have now begun to relate our appreciations to 1950 and consider that it would be advisable for the Joint Intelligence Committee (Middle East) to follow this procedure.