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

Michael Joseph (Background to the chapters in Crispin's book)

Thin

Part One

- Larry Grant submission doc to the 'Three wise men'
- Briefing on Deportation Procedures on Agee and Hosenball case
- Caprino Case
- Agee-Hosenball Defence Campaign minutes
- Concerned Americans
- Jamaica Destabilised
- Covert…

Meticulously indexed press cuttings on the case, by Crispin

- Department: provided evidence against
- Press Cuttings: 22nd Feb 77 'Others may be involved', Daily Mail after the arrest
- Eventing Standard: 'American writers must go!'
-Leaflets: 'Five charges gone, four to go'; Leveller case Colonel B…

- Photocopies of letter from John Berry
- Letters about the arrest
- ABC Public Relations Strategy

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’ -…

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

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

-Background to the Pentagon Papers, including someone breaking rank
-Statements, revised or otherwise: events as it occured to John
- Winslow Peck information

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

(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)

- Pavement / Birmingham Enquirer
- Letters
- Camden News Journal

MI5

Venture for a new radical weekly news
-Articles on it (1895)
-Most of a sample copy
-The prospectus
Letter of liquidation

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

Press Cuttings

Pamphlet

Press Cuttings
Phone tapping was how they found out in the first place, tapped NCCL and Time Out
Leveller and ‘Rights’ by Liberty (NCCL)
Draft article on surveillance
Post NS example of tapping: manuscript
Draft stories by Crispin

- Daily Express Journalist in the pocket of the security services (embedded): Rumours of military take over

- Background material to Crispin's book

Post trial

1979
Ryder / Humphry Story NSA in Britain 1974 - Draft

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

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

- Draft articles
:Background Paper - Agee and Hosenball
- Edward Thompson letter
- Time Out issue ‘Almost Innocent’.

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