BAS London This telegram must be closely paraphrased. be- Dated December 27, 1941 fore being communicated to anyone. (B) Rec'd 11:23 p.m. Secretary of State, Washington 6234, December 27, 7 a.m. (SECTION SIX) and action can be rapidly agreed and taken. The liaison officers also meet regularly under the chairmanship of the chief officer. This affords a means of pooling, detailed information and dis- posing shortly of minor matters which would often otherwise waste considerable time in correspondence between departments. It is particulary, successful in dealing with false reports and ill-founded suspicions or proposals which in security and intelligence matters are continually reaching authorities from official and unofficial quarters. Principles on which the executive works. In this way the executive has covered in the eighteen months of its operation every aspect of security, in Great Britain and many questions of security overseas. In so doing it has aiming at assessing the true importance of each apprehended danger and at maintaining a just balance between security |