Description
Object description
Substantial collection of British and American published and unpublished intelligence reports produced during the later 1940s by the British Intelligence Objectives Subcommittee (BIOS), Combined Intelligence Objectives Subcommittee (CIOS), Field Information Agency, Technical (FIAT) and the Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency (JIOA), concerning Allied investigations of a wide variety of military and civil targets (industries, research institutes, military installations, scientific and technical personnel etc) in Germany and to a lesser extent Japan with reference to the Second World War, covering amongst other subjects agriculture and food production/processing, armaments and munitions (incl chemical warfare), aircraft development, civil engineering, the chemical industry, domestic appliances, electrical and mechanical engineering, consumer goods, metallurgy, mining, the optical industry, medical research and pharmaceuticals, textiles, and transport; also subsidiary reports, BIOS Interrogation Reports on German scientists and technicians, unpublished and draft reports, and a set of the FIAT 'Review of German Science'.
Content description
Substantial collection of British and American published and unpublished intelligence reports produced during the later 1940s by the British Intelligence Objectives Subcommittee (BIOS), Combined Intelligence Objectives Subcommittee (CIOS), Field Information Agency, Technical (FIAT) and the Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency (JIOA), concerning Allied investigations of a wide variety of military and civil targets (industries, research institutes, military installations, scientific and technical personnel etc) in Germany and to a lesser extent Japan with reference to the Second World War, covering amongst other subjects agriculture and food production/processing, armaments and munitions (incl chemical warfare), aircraft development, civil engineering, the chemical industry, domestic appliances, electrical and mechanical engineering, consumer goods, metallurgy, mining, the optical industry, medical research and pharmaceuticals, textiles, and transport; also subsidiary reports, BIOS Interrogation Reports on German scientists and technicians, unpublished and draft reports, and a set of the FIAT 'Review of German Science'.
History note
Cataloguer SWW
History note
Catalogue date 2005-06