Joint Intelligence Committee (Germany)
Joint Intelligence Committee (Germany) was one of a number of "British intelligence fora established overseas in support of British military commanders and/or officers administering British colonial etc governments."[1]
According to a 1973 Cabinet Office file:
- In peace time the Chairman of JIC Germany, [REDACTED] and the Embassy representative in attendance are located at the Embassy in Bonn. BGS INT & SY HQ BAOR, CIO HQ RAF Germany, Director BSSO (Germany), [REDACTED], and Secretary JIC (Germany) are at JHQ Rheindahlen. The Representative of the GOC Berlin is located in Berlin. Formal meetings of the JIC (Germany) are held once a month, alternatively at Bonn and JHQ: One meeting a year is held in Berlin. In addition the members at Rheindahlen meet weekly to prepare, inter alia, a review of the current situation for JIC (A) London.[2]
Since they are not otherwise mentioned, its possible that the redactions may refer to MI6 or to the British Services Intelligence Unit (Germany).
Resources
- JIC (Germany) Procedures in a Period of Tension and after the British Commanders in Chief take up their NATO commands and have left JHQ Rheindahlen, extract from National Archives file CAB 191/3, 23 May 1973.
Notes
- ↑ Notes on the Central Intelligence Machinery division of Cabinet Office records and other intelligence-related Cabinet Office records, Knowledge and Information Management Unit, Cabinet Office, 31 August 2010, p.A8.
- ↑ JIC (Germany) Procedures in a Period of Tension and after the British Commanders in Chief take up their NATO commands and have left JHQ Rheindahlen, extract from National Archives file CAB 191/3, 23 May 1973.
