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  Ministry of Defence - Defence Intelligence Staff: Director-General of Intelligence,...

  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.

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1973-1999

  Reference

  DEFE 62

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  Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Information Research Department:...

  This series includes files of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's Information Research Department regarding political and economic intelligence. This includes files concerning political figures and leaders between 1944-1950, Gestapo collaborators,…

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1878-1957

  Reference

  FCO 162

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  Committee of Imperial Defence: Joint Intelligence Sub-Committee: Minutes and Memoranda...

  This series contains the minutes and papers of the Joint Intelligence Sub-Committee (June 1936 to August 1939), the minutes and papers of the Sub-Committee on Air Warfare in Spain (1937-1938) and the minutes and papers of the Sub-Committee on Air War…

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1936-1939, 1974

  Reference

  CAB 56

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  Ministry of Defence and Cabinet Office: Central Intelligence Machinery: Joint Intelligence...

  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 minut…

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1947-1968

  Reference

  CAB 159

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  Cabinet Office: Central Office Machinery: Joint Intelligence Committee (A): Minutes...

  Minutes of the Joint Intelligence Committee (A) until 30 September 1974 and then the Joint Intelligence Committee.

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1969-1982

  Reference

  CAB 185

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  Ministry of Defence - Directorate of Scientific Intelligence: Joint Intelligence...

  Reports, notes and memoranda, together with a range of other intelligence products generated by: the Ministry of Defence Directorate of Scientific Intelligence (DSI) (later the Joint Intelligence Bureau (JIB) Division of Scientific Intelligence); the…

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1944-1996

  Reference

  DEFE 44

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  Ministry of Defence: Joint Intelligence Bureau: Economic and General Division, later...

  This series consists of numerous examples of the wide range of Intelligence Digests, Reports, Notes, Briefing Memoranda and Surveys produced by DJSEI and its predecessors across the whole field of their responsibilities.

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1946-1972

  Reference

  DEFE 60

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  Government Code and Cypher School: Commercial Section: Reports of Plain Language...

  This series comprises summary reports by the Commercial Section of commercial messages originated in enemy and neutral countries. Two notable topics stand out: German efforts to obtain wolfram and iron ore from Spain; and the attempts by Japan to obt…

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  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1938-1945

  Reference

  HW 29

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  Government Code and Cypher School: Naval Section: Reports, Working Aids and Correspondence

  This series consists of correspondence, minutes, memoranda, instructions, information bulletins and other papers relating to the organisation of Naval Section, its operations and functions, relations with the Admiralty and with stations responsible f…

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1914-1946

  Reference

  HW 8

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  Government Code and Cypher School: Combined Bureau Middle East (CBME): Records

  This series contains surviving records of the Combined Bureau Middle East.

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1940-1944

  Reference

  HW 51

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  Government Code and Cypher School: Sigint Board and predecessors: Correspondence...

  This series contains correspondence of the Sigint Board and its predecessors, the top level organisation which controlled the direction and priorities of signals intelligence work, including the manpower and employment of resources, tasking of units …

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1940-1945

  Reference

  HW 69

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  Government Code and Cypher School: Diplomatic Section and Intelligence Exchange Section:...

  This series contains a series of reports issued by the Government Code and Cypher School of selected decrypted foreign diplomatic telegrams compiled for their interest to military commanders, known as the STARK reports. The reports in this series wer…

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1944-1945

  Reference

  HW 39

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  Government Code and Cypher School: Iranian Military and Air Attaché Messages

  The series consists of intercepted decrypted and translated messages between the Iranian War Ministry in Tehran and Iranian military and air attachés abroad, particularly in Axis capitals.

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1942-1943

  Reference

  HW 58

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  Government Code and Cypher School: Histories of British Sigint

  This series contains histories of British Sigint, most of which were intially retained under Section 3(4) of the Public Records Act 1958. The three-volume 'History of British Sigint, 1914-1945' (HW 43/1-3) provides an overview of policy and operation…

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1914-1945

  Reference

  HW 43

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  Government Code and Cypher School and Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ):...

  This series contains records consulted and used in preparation of Ferris, J's book titled 'Behind the Enigma: The Authorised History of GCHQ, Britain's Secret Cyber Intelligence Agency'. This includes papers, correspondence, minutes, memoranda, inter…

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1945-1983

  Reference

  HW 92

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  Government Code and Cypher School: ISOS Section and ISK Section: Decrypts of German...

  This series consists mainly of decrypts of German Secret Service messages decrypted by the Government Code and Cypher School. The series started with the nomenclature ISOS - intelligence service Oliver Strachey - and ISK - intelligence service Knox, …

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  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1939-1945

  Reference

  HW 19

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  Committee of Imperial Defence: Chiefs of Staff Committee: Minutes and Memoranda

  This series consists of the minutes and memoranda of the Chiefs of Staff Committee (including some memoranda of the Joint Planning Committee and of the Joint Intelligence Sub-committee) and one volume of papers of the Sub-Committee on Seaborne Land A…

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1923-1939

  Reference

  CAB 53

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  Home Office: Bouillon Papers

  This series consists of original letters to Philip D'Auvergne, Prince de Bouillon, as Administrateur des Secours Accordes aux Emigrés, by the British Government, together with memorials, intelligence reports from France, muster rolls, accounts and ot…

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1779-1813

  Reference

  HO 69

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  Records of the Atomic Weapons Establishment, predecessors and successors

  Records of the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) and predecessors concerning research and development and testing of Britain's atomic weapons.For series created for regularly archived websites, please see the separate Websites Division . Files relat…

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1944-2004

  Reference

  ES

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  War Cabinet, Ministry of Defence, and Cabinet Office: Central Intelligence Machinery:...

  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 sensitiv…

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  Creating government department or its successor

  Date

  1939-1996

  Reference

  CAB 163