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Ministry of Economic Warfare, and Foreign Office, Economic Warfare Department: Files...

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Reference FO 935
Title Ministry of Economic Warfare, and Foreign Office, Economic Warfare Department: Files concerning Intelligence Objectives Sub-committee
Date 1933-1946
Description

This series contains files mainly of the Ministry of Economic Warfare and the Economic Warfare Department of the Foreign Office relating to the work of the Combined Intelligence Objectives Sub-committee and the British Intelligence Objectives Sub-committee in obtaining technical and political intelligence of urgent military importance, and compiling and disseminating reports thereon. The earlier Ministry of Economic Warfare papers include assessments of the effects of economic warfare; subsequently the emphasis is on intelligence and information pertinent to the exploitation of occupied territory. All files were subsequently re-registered in the German Department of the Foreign Office.

Some files have been re-registered from FO 837.

Related material

Unregistered files of Dr W O Hassall, librarian for the Ministry of Economic Warfare and the Control Office for Germany and Austria between 1941 and 1946, are in PRO 30/95

Held by The National Archives, Kew
Legal status Public Record(s)
Language

English

Creator

Foreign Office, Economic Warfare Department, 1945-1950

Ministry of Economic Warfare, 1939-1945

Physical description 192 file(s)
Access conditions Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
Accruals Series is accruing