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8 Bland to Cadogan, 13 Oct. 1944 (ibid.).
9 Bland Report (ibid.).
10 At this point on one copy of the report a marginal note by a Foreign Office official reads: ‘Most important, otherwise the S.I.S. man abroad will concentrate on what is easy & amusing’ (ibid.).
11 Dansey to Loxley, enc. memo, 11 June 1944 (ibid.).
12 Bland Report, unrevised draft (ibid.).
13 Chiefs of Staff memo, 27 May 1945, COS(45)360 (TNA, CAB 80/94 (files retained in Cabinet Office)).
14 Cavendish-Bentinck to Loxley, 15 Apr.; Loxley to Leeper, 27 June 1944 (PUSD papers, FCO).
15 Minute by Menzies, 2 Nov. 1944 (ibid.).
16 Loxley to Menzies, 20 Oct. 1943 (ibid.).
17 Marginal note by Bland on copy of Menzies’s minute of 2 Nov. (ibid.).
18 Loxley to Cadogan, 8 Nov. 1944 (ibid.).
19 Draft amendments to report of Bland committee, 7 Dec. 1944 (ibid.).
20 In the final version the phrase ‘should always bear in mind . . . should therefore only engage’ was recast as: ‘should always bear in mind that political ideologies should not be investigated for their own sake alone; and that the S.I.S. should therefore only engage’ (TNA, CAB 163/4 (files retained in Cabinet Office)).
21 DMI and DNI to Cavendish-Bentinck, 16 Feb. and 30 Jan. 1945 (ibid.).
22 DMI to Cavendish-Bentinck, 16 Feb. 1945 (ibid.). Sinclair based his remarks on Edward Beddington’s comments on the Bland Report: ‘the expansion of S.I.S. took place in this war at an impossibly late date, mostly in 1942’ (Beddington to Sinclair, 7 Jan. 1945 (PUSD papers, FCO)).
23 DNI to Cavendish-Bentinck, 30 Jan. 1945 (TNA, CAB 163/4 (files retained in Cabinet Office)).
24 ‘The Intelligence Machine’, 10 Jan. 1945 (TNA, CAB 163/6).
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1 Findlater Stewart report, 27 Nov. 1945 (Cabinet Office papers).
2 From January 1948 the Joint Intelligence Sub-Committee was renamed the Joint Intelligence Committee.
3 Caccia to Sir A. Cadogan, 29 Jan. 1946 (PUSD papers, FCO).
4 Caccia to Sir Orme Sargent, 25 Feb. 1946 (ibid.).
5 Cavendish-Bentinck to Cadogan, 25 June; minutes by Cadogan, Bevin and Attlee, 14, 21, 23 Aug. and 5 Sept.; ‘Directive to Special Operations Executive’, 10 Nov., COS(45)643(O) annex; minute by Sargent, 28 Nov. 1945 (ibid.).
6 Menzies to Caccia, 30 Jan.; minute by Caccia, 2 Feb.; circular FO telegram, 25 Mar. 1946 (ibid.).
7 Cabinet Office notes on costs of the Secret Service (Cabinet Office papers).
8 COS Committee, 30 Apr. 1947, COS(47) 59th meeting (TNA, DEFE 4/4).
9 Minute by A. V. Alexander, 30 June 1947, COS(47)135(O) (ibid., 5/5).
10 Forty-six meetings of the Regional Controllers were held between 26 Nov. 1945 and 15 Jan. 1947.
11 Sixty-four meetings of the VCSS’s Production Conference were held between 21 Jan. 1947 and 6 Dec. 1949. The minutes of these meetings were routinely marked: ‘To be destroyed after action taken’. On 2 Mar. 1948 PSO (?Principal Staff Officer) requested that all agenda and minutes of the conferences ‘up till end of 1947 should be destroyed and destruction certificates should be rendered’.
12 As follows: R.1 Political; R.2 Air; R.3 Naval; R.4 Military; R.5 Counter-Intelligence; R.6 Economic; R.7 Scientific (from 1948); R.8 Scientific (to 1948), then Liaison; R.9 Co-ordinating (1946-8).
13 Hayter to Sargent, 13 Jan.; Menzies to Hayter, 30 Jan 1947 (PUSD papers, FCO).
14 Sillitoe to Bridges, 11 Nov.; minute by Donaldson, 8 Dec. 1948 (Cabinet Office papers).
15 Notes by Bridges and Donaldson, 23 Dec. 1948 (ibid.).
16 Strang to Menzies, 28 July; Sillitoe to Menzies, 9 Sept. and reply, 28 Sept. 1949 (ibid.).
17 Menzies to Hayter, 17 Apr. 1947 (PUSD papers, FCO).
18 Menzies to Hayter, 17 Jan., enc. memo on ‘Future Indian intelligence liaison’; minute by Halford, 22 Jan. 1947 (ibid.).
19 ‘Future Indian intelligence liaison’, by Monteath; Monteath to Bridges, 6 Mar.; Shone to Hayter, n.d. [May]; Menzies to Hayter, 21 June 1947 (ibid.).
20 Posts in the Diplomatic and Consular Services were restricted to men until 1946, and a bar on married women was enforced in the Foreign Office up to 1972 (see McCarthy, ‘Petticoat