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Ministry of Defence - Defence Intelligence Staff: Director-General of Intelligence,...
Catalogue reference: DEFE 62
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DEFE 62
This series contains centrally-staffed DIS assessments, reports and studies of the military capabilities and organisation of nations and organisations of interest, in particular of potential enemies and of those which threaten UK national interests.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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DEFE 62
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Title (The name of the record)
- Ministry of Defence - Defence Intelligence Staff: Director-General of Intelligence, later Chief of Defence Intelligence; Deputy Chief of Defence Staff (Intelligence); Directorate of Management and Support of Intelligence; and Defence Intelligence Staff Secretariat: centrally-staffed DIS Intelligence Assessments, Reports and Studies.
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Date (When the record was created)
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1973-1999
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains centrally-staffed DIS assessments, reports and studies of the military capabilities and organisation of nations and organisations of interest, in particular of potential enemies and of those which threaten UK national interests.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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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)
- Ministry of Defence, Defence Intelligence Staff, 1964-1964
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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14 file(s)
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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 2004 Ministry of Defence
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Series is accruing.
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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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On 1 April 1964 the Defence Intelligence Staff (DIS) was created by grouping together the pre-1964 Service Intelligence departments and the Joint Intelligence Bureau under a Director-General of Intelligence.
Broadly speaking, the new DIS carried out the same duties as its predecessors, but within a tri-service framework: that is, to provide the Ministry of Defence with a central unified intelligence organisation which can supply objective all-source assessments of defence intelligence matters in peace, crisis and war. Its primary functions - to give warning of preparations for war or attack by potential enemies and to assess their military capabilities.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15833/
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Ministry of Defence - Defence Intelligence Staff: Director-General of Intelligence, later Chief of Defence Intelligence; Deputy Chief of Defence Staff (Intelligence); Directorate of Management and Support of Intelligence; and Defence Intelligence Staff Secretariat: centrally-staffed DIS Intelligence Assessments, Reports and Studies.
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