Ministry of Defence and Cabinet Office: Central Intelligence Machinery: Joint Intelligence Sub-Committee Later Committee: Minutes (JIC Series). Joint Intelligence Committee. Meetings 69-138 > 1. Chinese Communist Threat in the Far East and South East Asia; 2. Soviet Threat to Malta; 3. Military Clauses of the Sino-Soviet Treaty; 4. Exchange of Information with the Americans on Arms Traffic
Document Title 1. Chinese Communist Threat in the Far East and South East Asia; 2. Soviet Threat to Malta; 3. Military Clauses of the Sino-Soviet Treaty; 4. Exchange of Information with the Americans on Arms Traffic
Reference CAB 159/8
Document Date 30 August 1950
Conflicts Cold War
Themes Foreign Policy and International Relations, Military Intelligence and Operations, Intelligence Gathering and Surveillance
Regions East Asia, Europe, Mediterranean, Middle East
Countries Czechoslovakia, Korea, Malta, Soviet Union, United Kingdom
Document Type Meeting Minutes
Organisations Central Intelligence Agency, Chiefs of Staff, Foreign Office, Joint Intelligence Bureau, Joint Intelligence Committee (Far East), Joint Intelligence Committee (Middle East), Joint Intelligence Staff, Ministry of Defence, Secret Intelligence Service, Security Service, Joint Intelligence Sub-Committee
People John Gardiner, Percy Sillitoe, Kenneth Strong, Dick White
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1. Threat to the Levant and Egypt Arising Out of the Soviet Occupation of Azerbaijan or Persia; 2. The Threat to LAOS and SIAM; 3. United States O.N.E. Reports; 4. Exchange of Intelligence with the Turks; 5. Clandestine Air Photographic Reconnaissance; 6. Vulnerability of China; 7. Defence of South-East Asia in the Event of Chinese Aggression - Intelligence Appreciation
1. Soviet Intentions and Capabilities; 2. Monthly Meeting with the Joint Intelligence Staff; 3. Formosa - Chinese Communist Intentions and Capabilities; 4. Periodical Reports on the Threat to Hong- Kong; 5. Russian Preparedness for War; 6. Possibility of Russian Armed Action Against Yugoslavia; 7. Scientific and Technical Intelligence.
1. The Chinese Communist Threat in the Far East and South-East Asia; 2. Threat to Indo-China; 3. Communist Influence in the African Continent (Excluding Egypt); 4. Soviet Long Term Preparations for War - Review of Major Developments During the Year Ending 31st December 1949; 5. Periodic Intelligence Summaries for the Western Europe Commanders-in-Chief Committee; 6. Basic Intelligence Appreciations for the United Kingdom Delegations to the Brussels Treaty Military Committee and to N.A.T.O. Regional Planning Groups; 7. Exchange of Information with the Americans on Arms Traffic; 8. Communist Influence in the Middle East
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