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Ministry of Defence and Cabinet Office: Central Intelligence Machinery: Joint Intelligence...
Catalogue reference: CAB 158
What's it about?
CAB 158
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.
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 158
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Title (The name of the record)
- Ministry of Defence and Cabinet Office: Central Intelligence Machinery: Joint Intelligence Sub-Committee later Committee: Memoranda (JIC Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
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1946-1968
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Description (What the record is about)
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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.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
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.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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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
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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 file series
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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)
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- 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
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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104 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 1994 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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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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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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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.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3965/
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