Bound typescript volume divided into subjects covering the years 1939 - 1942 including Director of Naval Intelligence, naval intelligence divisions - Beginning's; Mission to Paris - January 1939' German General staff mission to London June 1939; Informing the Navy; Early days and late nights 1939; The influence of Admiral Pound as First sea Lord and Phillips as V.C.N.S.; The influence of the First Lord 1939; First Sea Lords; Access to sea Lords; Visits to Commanders in Chief, Flag Officers and Naval Officers in charge and resident Naval Officers; The Second, Third, Fourth and Fifth Sea Lords; The Press and Publicity; Naval Staff and the Civil Servant; the secretariat and Admiralty Department; Wishfulness and other vices; People; Education; Distractions, preoccupations and diversions; Colonel Dovan; Presidential Interlude; Director of Naval Intelligence in peace time and Naval attaches; interservice committees; contacts; The origins of the Joint Intelligence staff and Clearing House for Ideas.