Spying on the World: The Declassified Documents of the Joint Intelligence Committee, 1936-2013 by Aldrich Richard J

Author:Aldrich, Richard J. [Aldrich, Richard J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Political Science, Intelligence & Espionage
ISBN: 9780748678570
Google: kEurBgAAQBAJ
Amazon: 0748678573
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2014-05-19T00:00:00+00:00

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who have already visited many Colonial areas to give training courses to members of Special Branches within their own Colonies. In addition, training courses to Colonial Special Branch Officers of the higher ranks are given periodically by the Security Service in London.

10. Security Service representation within Colonial areas is not always in the same form. In Gibraltar and Malta there are Defence Security Officers (D.S.Os). In most other Colonies the Security Service representative is called the Security Liaison Officer (S.L.O). In some instances the Security Service representative has been placed within the Special Branch either as an adviser to the Head of the Special Branch, or as a research officer within the Special Branch.

11. The Security Service representative in a Colony has the duty to inform the Governor, Service Commanders, the Commissioner of Police, and other appropriate local officials on matters affecting security. He is the normal channel for security business between the Special Branch and the Security Service Headquarters in London and other security organisations within the Commonwealth; and, through London, with the rest of the free world. He is so placed that he can give advice to the Special Branch, based on his own experience and backed by the authority and experience of the Security Service, and can bring matters to the attention of the Colonial Administration when he thinks it necessary. He can on occasion support this by getting the Security Service to intervene with the Colonial Office in London.

12. It is believed that the present arrangements enable the Security Service to make their contribution without weakening the responsibility of local Administrations for their own security.

METHODS OF HANDLING AND DESTINATION OF INTELLIGENCE

REPORTS FROM THE COLONIES

13. As mentioned in paragraph 1 above, Special Branch reports as such are not generally received in London.

Bearing in mind the difficulties of separating security from political intelligence, the present form in which security intelligence is collected, collated and disseminated in the Colonies, serves, in general, the purpose for which it is designed. The problem lies rather in ensuring that matters of security intelligence interest

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of moment are included in Governors’ regular monthly intelligence Reports. These normally reach London from all Colonies on or about the 20th of the following month and total collectively some 6-800 pages.

14. The Joint Intelligence Committee is kept informed of intelligence affecting colonial security in the following ways:–

(a) The Colonial Office compiles from reports received from Governors a monthly “Colonial Office Political Intelligence Summary”. These summaries are circulated to interested Departments on or about the twelfth of each month, and comprise some twenty pages of factual information, mainly on events that have occurred in each Colony during the last month but one, but also include more up to date information based on telegraphic reports.

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