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War Cabinet, Ministry of Defence, and Cabinet Office: Central Intelligence Machinery:...
Catalogue reference: CAB 163
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CAB 163
This series contains a few files of the Joint Intelligence Committee Secretariat relating to the organisation of the intelligence staffs during and after the Second World War, intelligence support to particular operations and the disposal of...
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 163
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Title (The name of the record)
- War Cabinet, Ministry of Defence, and Cabinet Office: Central Intelligence Machinery: Joint Intelligence Sub-Committee, later Committee: Secretariat: Files
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Date (When the record was created)
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1939-1996
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains a few files of the Joint Intelligence Committee Secretariat relating to the organisation of the intelligence staffs during and after the Second World War, intelligence support to particular operations and the disposal of sensitive documentation found among those papers of Sir Winston Churchill that subsequently accrued to PREM 3.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
The earliest files in this series are from a discrete plain numbered series used in the Joint Intelligence Sub-Committee secretariat; in 1957 the (by then) JIC secretariat was allocated the number 82 within the Cabinet Office main Registry; in the late 1960s 82 was superseded by a J prefix numbered series.
Within each accession, the records are arranged by file series and then in chronological order by end date.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For JIC Secretary's Minutes (JIC(SEC)) see CAB 176
For minutes and papers of the Sub-Committee and Committee after 1946 see CAB 158
For minutes and papers, 1939-1946 see CAB 81
For minutes and papers of the Sub-Committee and Committee after 1946 see also CAB 159
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- Creating government department or its successor
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
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82 and J 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
- Cabinet Office, Joint Intelligence Secretariat, 1945-1947
- Ministry of Defence, Joint Intelligence Committee Secretariat, 1947-1957
- War Cabinet, Joint Intelligence Committee Secretariat, 1939-1945
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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608 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 2000 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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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
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1939 onwards
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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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The Secretariat files were reviewed in 1976 and most were destroyed - this series contains the files which were selected at that review.
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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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In January 1936 the Committee of Imperial Defence approved the formation of the Inter-Services Intelligence Committee; in July its name was changed to the Joint Intelligence Sub-Committee (JISC). The Committee of Imperial Defence lapsed at the outbreak of war in 1939; the Chiefs of Staff Committee structure, including the Joint Intelligence Sub-Committee, being incorporated within the War Cabinet organisation.
In 1947 responsibility for the Joint Intelligence Sub-Committee passed to the Ministry of Defence. It was within the Chiefs of Staff Committee structure, and in January 1948 its name was modified to Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC).
In October 1957 reflecting the broadened scope and role of intelligence the committee was brought back within the Cabinet Committee structure.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3970/
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