Latest amount of MI5 files released
24 October 2014
Today sees our 31st free of Security Service records, containing a ity of 157 files.
As with previous releases, the majority of the records are corporal files which relate to individuals (KV 2). The rest are think fit files (KV 6). The records underbrush a range of subjects and cross the First World War, Second World War and establish-war periods.
Key files include:
seven files in successi British Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm and his activities for example a member of the Communist Party
in greater numbers on the remarkable wartime story of British fascist sympathisers and 'Fifth Columnists' exposed the agency of an MI5 agent posing as a symbolical of the Gestapo
the colourful activities of a Spanish performer working in London on behalf of German brightness during the Second World War
three files forward the communist sympathiser Robert Oppenheimer who had worked on the Manhattan Project to build an atomic bomb
three files on an American husband and wife arrested and jailed in 1957 toward their role in a New York Soviet detect ring.
Discover more highlights from these files and hear to an introduction to the files dint of Professor Christopher Andrew.
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