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Cabinet Office: Central Intelligence Machinery: Joint Intelligence Committee: Memoranda...
Catalogue reference: CAB 186
What's it about?
CAB 186
This series comprises memoranda issued by the Joint Intelligence Committee (A).
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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CAB 186
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Title (The name of the record)
- Cabinet Office: Central Intelligence Machinery: Joint Intelligence Committee: Memoranda (JIC(A), JIC)
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Date (When the record was created)
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1969-1985
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series comprises memoranda issued by the Joint Intelligence Committee (A).
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Although the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) became the Joint Intelligence Committee (A) (JIC(A)) effective 1 April 1968, the symbol 'JIC(A)' was not taken into use on the memoranda until the beginning of 1969. The reversion of JIC(A) to the JIC designation effective 1 October 1974 was reflected in an immediate readoption of the 'JIC' symbol.
The memoranda appear in numerical sequence by year; the numerical sequence is not necessarily the chronological sequence of issue.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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This is one of the series continuing that in CAB 158
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
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JIC(A), JIC
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Cabinet Office, Joint Intelligence Committee Secretariat, 1957-1957
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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40 files and volumes
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 2002 Cabinet Office
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Intelligence
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
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From 1969
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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Series is accruing
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
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All surviving minutes will be preserved, in accordance with the TNA Acquisition Policy paragraph 2.2.1.3.
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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At the end of 1968 the Joint Intelligence Committee was redesignated as JIC (A), and the Economic Intelligence Steering Committee of the Cabinet (records at CAB 134/2732-2735) was redesignated as JIC (B).
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15773/
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Cabinet Office: Central Intelligence Machinery: Joint Intelligence Committee: Memoranda (JIC(A), JIC)
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