Joint Intelligence Council
With three government bodies - the Department of Military Intelligence, the Special Operations Executive (foreign operations) and the Federal Intelligence Agency (domestic espionage and counter-espionage) - as well as allied agencies in the CNCS, it was quickly realized that there was a need for an information "clearing house." As a result, the UMF formed the Joint Intelligence Council (JIC) in TN 1822. Intended to form a bridge between Military Intelligence, the SOE, the FIA and their respective bodies in allied nations, there is considerable divergence between the intended and actual operation of the JIC. Whilst the UMFs civilian and military agencies had been cooperating for some time, the governments of the CNCS allies were less willing to share intelligence fearing that both would serve as conduits to the corporations, allowing them to tighten their stranglehold on the CNCS economy.
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