Confronting the Colonies by Rory Cormac

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
    This is my first book. I am indebted to the generous support, advice and input from a number of people who have helped me develop from PhD student to published academic. Firstly I would like to thank the Arts and Humanities Research Council for funding the doctoral thesis from which this book has evolved. I would also like to acknowledge the help and support of various archivists from around the country, including at the National Archives, the Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies, the Churchill Archives Centre and the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives. Permission to quote from private papers was kindly given by the Liddell Hart centre and the Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies. Secondly, I would like to thank those retired practitioners who have spoken to me about the workings of the JIC. They have helped me place flesh on the archival skeleton and better understand the human side of committee life. Thirdly, I am grateful to the comments from academic colleagues around the country. Their comments have kept me aware that there was more to the years between 1948 and 1975 than the JIC.
    I am particularly grateful to those who have read and provided feedback on sections or earlier versions of this work. Their comments have proved invaluable, although any mistakes are mine alone. Special thanks must go to Michael Goodman and Huw Bennett for supervising the PhD upon which this work is based. As official historian of the JIC, Michael Goodman was the ideal academic to oversee the project. His knowledge of the committee and the archives has proved invaluable. Moreover, Huw Bennett interpreted the role of second supervisor in anincredibly generous manner and his insights have certainly strengthened the quality of the work no-end. Combined with Richard Aldrich at the University of Warwick, they have provided the best training for which a young academic could hope.
    Finally, I must thank my wife. She has put up with my incessant and excitable ramblings about government committees and cheered me up after long days buried in files and acronyms. She has (without meaning to) acquired a detailed, if somewhat random, knowledge of the British Joint Intelligence Organisation and must be the only musicologist who can list successive JIC chairmen! Thank you.
    Rory Cormac, Northampton, Spring 2013

ABBREVIATIONS
AKEL
People’s Working Reform Party (Cypriot Communist Party)
AIC
Aden Intelligence Centre
BATTs
British Army Training Teams
BDCC(FE)
British Defence Coordination Committee (Far East)
C-in-C(ME)
Commander-in-Chief (Middle East)
CENTO
Central Treaty Organisation
CIC
Cyprus Intelligence Committee
CIGs
Current Intelligence Groups
CIGS
Chief of the Imperial General Staff
CCP
Chinese Communist Party
CoS
Chiefs of Staff
CSAF
Commander of the Sultan’s Armed Forces
DIS
Defence Intelligence Staff
DLF
Dhofar Liberation Front
EOKA
National Organisation of Cypriot Fighters
FCO
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
FIC
Federal Intelligence Committee (Aden and South Arabia)
FSA
Federation of South Arabia
HoS
Heads of Sections
IOR
India Office Records, held at the British Library
JAC
Joint Action Committee
JIB
Joint Intelligence Bureau
JIC
Joint Intelligence Committee
JIC(A)
Joint Intelligence Committee (A)
JIC(B)
Joint Intelligence Committee (B)
JIC(FE)
Joint Intelligence Committee (Far East)
JIC(ME)
Joint Intelligence Committee (Middle East)
JIG(Gulf)
Joint Intelligence Group (Gulf)
JIS
Joint Intelligence Staff
JPS
Joint Planning Staff
LIC
Local Intelligence Committee
MCP
Malayan Communist Party
MSS
Malayan Security Service
NLF
National Liberation Front (Aden and South Arabia)
NSC
National Security Council
PDRY
People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen
PFLOAG
Popular Front for the Liberation of the Occupied Arab Gulf
PRSY
People’s Republic of South Yemen
PSP
People’s Socialist Party (Aden)
SAAG
South Arabia Action Group
SAF
Sultan’s Armed Forces
SAS
Special Air