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This series contains the memoranda issued by the Joint Intelligence Committee (Joint Intelligence Sub-committee until 31 December 1947).

Some 1947 and 1948 memoranda carry an '(O)' suffix indicating that they were concerned with operational matters.

Numerical sequence by year; the numerical sequence is not necessarily the chronological sequence of issue.

Although the Joint Intelligence Committee became the Joint Intelligence Committee (A) effective 1 April 1968, the symbol 'JIC' continued in use on the memoranda until the end of 1968.

Memoranda issued by the JISC are in CAB 81

Communications and Intelligence Records are in:

The series is continued in CAB 186

The Committee's correspondence files are in CAB 163

• Cabinet Office, Joint Intelligence Committee Secretariat, 1957-1957
• Ministry of Defence, Joint Intelligence Committee, 1948-1957
• Ministry of Defence, Joint Intelligence Sub-committee, 1947-1948

From 1994 Cabinet Office

Topics

Intelligence

Armed Forces (General Administration)

Following the establishment of the Ministry of Defence in January 1947 the Joint Intelligence Sub-Committee of the Cabinet became a Ministry of Defence committee in the Chiefs of Staff Sub-Committee committee structure. Its title was amended in January 1948 to Joint Intelligence Committee.

In October 1957 the Prime Minister approved the return of the Joint Intelligence Committee to the Cabinet Office where it remains. It was as a reflection of the broadened scope and role of intelligence that the Joint Intelligence Committee was brought back into the Cabinet Office, as part of the inter-departmental Cabinet Committee structure, under the authority of the Secretary of the Cabinet.