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A volume of reports commissioned for 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. A vast range of international and domestic issues are investigated and analysed in the JIC's reports. Subjects covered in this file include Japanese strategy, military production, and their economic situation in the summer of 1945; the likely reactions of Arab states and Palestinian Jews to possible courses of action by Britain in Palestine; post-war British intelligence organisation; information sharing with French and Soviet intelligence services; the exploitation and security of captured German archives; the likelihood of continued resistance by Japanese forces after a Japanese surrender; and the significance of the atomic bombing of Japan in August 1945.
A volume of reports commissioned for the Joint Intelligence 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. A vast range of international and domestic issues are investigated and analysed in the JIC's reports. Subjects covered in this file include Soviet military strength and dispositions; possible indications of Soviet preparations for war; the possible scale of air attack on the United Kingdom in a future war; the dispute between Yugoslavia and the Cominform; Soviet development of guided missiles; the spread of communist influence in East Asia; the release of documents relating to operations in the Second World War; British intelligence organisation in the Middle East and East Asia; aerial photographic reconnaissance in the Middle East; and Israel's intentions regarding its future borders.
A volume of reports commissioned for the Joint Intelligence 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. A vast range of international and domestic issues are investigated and analysed in the JIC's reports. Subjects covered in this file include the possibility of war between India and Pakistan; the spread of communism in East Asia; communist successes in the Chinese Civil War; Anglo-American strategy for the use of atomic weapons in the event of war with the USSR; Soviet military strength and preparedness for war; procedures for handling defectors from Eastern Bloc countries; the strength of communist parties in Europe and South Asia; information sharing with members of the Commonwealth; and the Argentine threat to the Falkland Islands.
A file of miscellaneous reports, memoranda, and meeting minutes from 1944-45. Subjects covered in this file include the military situation in Europe and East Asia, including German army dispositions in France and Italy; the reduction and demobilisation of the British armed forces after the war; French resistance to the Japanese occupation of Indochina; the use of captured German generals to encourage German surrender; arrangements for the occupation of Germany, including manpower requirements; the Russian-organised "Free Germany" movement; the investigation of German secret weapons; special operations in China; the coordination of resistance to the Japanese in China between Chinese, American and British forces; the organisation of propaganda designed to break the German will to resist; and American opposition to French involvement in Vietnam.
A file of miscellaneous reports, memoranda, and meeting minutes from 1945. Subjects covered in this file include liaison with the Americans and Soviets to coordinate the occupation of Germany, including messages exchanged between Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Josef Stalin; the command and organisation of clandestine British activities in China; the production of propaganda to break the German will to resist; the recruitment of captured German generals to persuade the German army to surrender; the seizure of German consulates in neutral countries; investigation of German secret weapons; an aerial photographic survey of Europe; post-war research into the German economy and armed forces; the defence of London against suicide attacks; planning and operational requirements for the invasion of Rangoon; European regional intelligence department staff numbers; and a report by a foreign office official of his observations during a visit to occupied Germany.
Contains transcripts of certain House Foreign Affairs Committee executive session hearings. Transcribed hearings are. a. Discussion of rescue and relief of European Jews from Nazi persecution by an international organization. Nov. 19, 23, 24, 26, Dec. 2, 1943. pages 1-247. Includes discussions of Allies' policies on Nazi genocide program, role of neutral nations in assisting Jewish and other war refugees, U.S. quotas on European and Jewish immigration, British policies on Jewish immigration to Palestine, and Allied programs for war refugee relief. born Arab-Jewish relations in Palestine. Sept. 27, 28, 1945. Hearings were held in Jerusalem, Palestine. pages 249-293. Includes discussions of Ottoman Empire administration of Palestine, British policies on Jewish immigration and land transfers in Palestine, post-WWII immigration by European Jews to Palestine, and plans for establishing Jewish and Arab political states in Palestine. c. Discussion of Jewish homeland and unrestricted immigration rights in Palestinian state. Dec. 17, 1945. pages 295-361. Includes discussions of British and U.S. commitment to Balfour Declaration principles, political activities and objectives of Zionist organizations in Palestine, and European Jewish war refugee problems. d. Lend-Lease military aid program extension. Feb. 8, 13, 1945. pages 383-391. Includes discussion of French and Soviet participation in the program. e. War criminals apprehension and punishment. Apr. 24, 1945. pages 413-428. Includes discussions of U.N. War Crimes Commission authority and jurisdiction, U.S. policies on apprehension of alleged war criminals in neutral countries, and the relationship between Congress and State Dept in war crime affairs. f. Eastern Europe, Soviet Union, and Middle East travel reports by Reps. Karl E. Mundt and Frances P. Bolton to U.S. military intelligence officers. Nov. 9, 1945. pages 437-463. Includes discussions of Soviet life, Soviet use of Allied Control Commission occupation authority in Eastern Europe, East European Jewish immigration to Palestine and anti-Semitism in Soviet Union and Poland, Arab anti-Zionism and Arab-Jewish tensions in Palestine; Yugoslav, Greek, and Turkish political affairs; British, French, and Soviet roles in Middle East, and the role of women in Saudi Arabia. g. German industrial plant dismantlement. Dec. 4, 16, 1947. pages 499-548. Includes discussion of German economic recovery and impact of industrial plant dismantlement and war reparations program, Inter-Allied Reparations Agency policies, and Soviet cooperation in war reparations and industrial plant dismantlement programs.
This volume records the transition from planning against any post-war resurgence of German and Japanese militarism to preparations against a possible threat from the Soviet Union. It charts Foreign Office resistance to consideration of even the possibility of Soviet hostility after the war.