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This series contains the minutes of meetings of the Joint Intelligence Committee (Joint Intelligence Sub-Committee until 31 December 1947) and Confidential Annexes for the period August 1952 to December 1955.

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

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

Communications and Intelligence Records are in: CAB 81 CAB 163

For the further records of the Committee see:

This series continues in CAB 185

• 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 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.