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Background to the case

Never Adopted

Pamphlet

Thin

MI5

1979
Ryder / Humphry Story NSA in Britain 1974 - Draft

-PLP Meeting speech notes
-ABC Campaign Letter
-Press Cuttings

US Citizens spied from abroad

-Letter: Political Rights Defense Fund: Appeal for solidarity
-List of CIA docs contained in the kit referred to in accompanying advance article in International Press 24 docs: Trotskyists Targets
-‘The Nation’ -…

Press Cuttings

Letters - including from Penguin and Edward Thompson
Copy of the ‘Whistle Blowers’ BBC transcript - 13 May 1979

Leveller magazine
House of the Lords case against Leveller. NUJ and Peace News
Colonel B hearing statement
Press Cuttings

State Research - Background Paper on Special Branch
Lennon Case
Where former SB members went
Note of examples of SB surveillance of the left
Use of Part time informers
NCCL undercover SB man inside

Handwritten descriptions from arrest to end of trial.
Fascinating handwritten accounts of arrests

Peace News: Sigint/ Return of Colonel B.
Post trial

Provided by the defence lawyers
List of Jury checks: Looking at their likelihood of being sympathetic to official secrets
Extraordinary detail.

The Outer Circle Policy Unit 1978
House of Commons Debates and Statements
Statements from the Home Sec, Mr Rees (?)
NCCL conference 1976 Official Secrecy

-Article on Tony Benn being approached by MI5 after leaving the Navy
-Article ‘cloak without dagger

Post trial

(Phil Agee etc, GCHQ worked together with MI6)

Including Ireland (not N.Ireland which was MI5). Collection of some of the things Britain got involved in.
(Context to why it was interesting to bring to Prosecution)