Historical Dictionary of British Intelligence

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Dutch country sections. It was a task requiring considerable skill and

tact, considering the tension that had developed between the various

competing intelligence agencies with overlapping responsibilities

that had all experienced degrees of enemy penetration. When Brus-

sels was liberated, in September 1944, Johns opened a Special Forces

headquarters in what had until recently been the offices of the Luft-

waffe.

At the end of the war, Johns returned to commercial life and emi-

grated to the United States, where he now lives. His memoirs,Within

Two Cloaks: Missions with SIS and SOE(1979), were among the

very first to be written by a wartime SIS officer and were unusual

because the author identified many of his SIS colleagues, although

he neglected to reveal the name of his successor in Lisbon, Cecil

Gledhill, with whom he had been on poor terms. Living in Florida,

Johns felt under no obligation to submit his manuscript to the author-

ities, and it thereby achieved some notoriety within the intelligence

community.

JOINT AIR RECONNAISSANCE INTELLIGENCE CENTRE
(JARIC).Located at RAF Brampton, the JARIC undertook the
Royal Air Force’s photoreconnaissance missions with converted
Canberra and Vulcan aircraft during the Cold War. In 1983, 13
Squadron and 3 Squadron, operating from RAF Wyton and RAF
Coltishall, were disbanded, leaving No. 1 Photographic Reconnais-
sance Unit, which was later amalgamated into theDefence Geo-
graphic and Imagery Intelligence Agency.

JOINT INTELLIGENCE BUREAU (JIB).The Joint Intelligence
Bureau was the War Office’s central military intelligence organiza-
tion. It existed between 1948 and the establishment of the Ministry
of Defence in 1964 and was headed by Major GeneralSir Kenneth
Strongcontinuously.

JOINT INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE (JIC).Created in 1936
under the chairmanship of Ralph Stevenson, the JIC consists of the
various directors of intelligence, the chief of the Defence Staff, and
the permanent undersecretaries from the Home Office, Foreign Of-
fice, Ministry of Defence, and the Treasury. It sets the requirements