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Monday, 8th March 2010

New Release of Security Files Made Public By National Archives (UK)

Most of the files in this release are free via DocumentsOnline for the next month.

The 196 files cover subjects from the pre-war period, the Second World War and post-war. This is the 24th Security Service records release, bringing the total number of its records in the public domain to more than 4,300.

From a Summary Page (Includes Direct Links to Documents):

...personal files on US film director Carl Nathan Foreman, Irish playwright Brendan Behan and Nazi propagandist Gottfried Rosel, as well as investigations into the dangers posed by bicycling groups of Hilter Youth and the Communist links of Theatre Workshop.

+ Sidney Stanley, principal witness at the Lynskey Tribunal, who was due to be deported to Poland but disappeared to Israel instead (KV 2/3176)

+ Joseph Gerard Andrews, the 'undesirable peddler of information' with links to the IRA, who was contacted by German agents (KV 2/3119-31120)

+ The unusual case of Weber Strebel, a Swiss journalist recruited by the Germans in 1939 but who apparently had little intention of sending through any information (KV 2/3121)

+ The glamorous and 'unscrupulous' Czech, Sophia Alexandra Clapham-Kukralova, suspected of being a German agent (KV 2/3122)

+ William Burges, an army major and employee of Woolwich Arsenal, arrested and charged under the Officials Secret Act (KV 2/3164)

More Info in these Documents:

+ Introduction

+ German Intelligence agents and suspected agents

+ Subjects of Security Service enquiries

+ Policy Files

+ Organisation Files

Source: National Archives (UK)


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