War Cabinet Joint Intelligence Subcommittee Conference on the Co-Ordination of Far East Intelligence 1st Meeting Minutes

A volume of meeting minutes of the Joint Intelligence Sub-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. The JIC members discussed a vast range of international and domestic issues in their meetings. In this file, subjects documented include Allied intelligence gathering, processing, and distribution during the Pacific War; the different areas of responsibility and chains of command for the British, American, and Commonwealth intelligence services; relations between the Allied military hierarchy and intelligence services; and planned intelligence organisation after the end of the Second World War.