Fonds 020.013 (D1) - Directorate of Military Intelligence, 1 Military Intelligence fonds

The Directorate of Military Intelligence (DMI) had its roots in General Order 61, dated 01 Apr 1902, which created the Corps of Guides in the Canadian Army, with the Director General of Military Intelligence (DGMI) as its head. The DGMI was charged with the collection of information on the military resources of Canada and other countries and with the preparation of maps and handbooks of military information. Intelligence was divided into three Sections, one of which was M.I.1, responsible for the following: intelligence from the Districts; foreign Armies; issuing Intelligence Summaries; codes and ciphers (until November 1940); custody and distribution of "Secret and Security documents"; and administration.In January 1940, the ADMI produced a paper that so impressed the CGS that he ordered it to be continued and, by the end of 1940, Capt. R.E.L. Ste.-Marie and his two clerks had turned it into a Weekly War Review. By early 1941, M.I.1 was receiving the British Intelligence Summary, the War Office Weekly Intelligence Commentary, the Weekly Political Intelligence Summary, the GHQ Intelligence Summary, the War Office Summary, and the Daily Digest of World Wireless Propaganda. By that summer it was also receiving Press Surveys, particularly of Central and South America, Canadian Consular Reports, Trade and Political Intelligence Summaries, arms production and transportation studies, Censorship extracts from other than Canadian sources, and reports of Japanese radio broadcast intercepts. Ultimately, M.I.1 was clipping 3,500 to 4,000 items taken from 66 newspapers and magazines every week, and circulating them through a widely distributed Daily Press Service. All the material received was used as the basis of subsequent studies and reports.