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Press cuttings
(Miners Strike)
Duncan Campbell in new scientist
Police Arrest / Interview for Crispin

Jury vetting under scruntiny

Pieces about or written by Hosenball.

Background to the case

Time Out draft article, statement from former lecturer - British Drama League

Bader Meinhoff article

-Early exposures of what CIA was up to. The Pall Mall farce and 'three wise men'
- Phil Kelly manuscript 1978 'Deportation of Phil Agee'
- Draft book by Phi Agee
- New York Times press cutting

Press Cuttings
Copy of the Diplock Report on the Interception of Communications
State Research Vol 4 (April 1981)

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

- What was Berry trying to reveal
- Spying on friends, giving it to the US
- Why Cyprus was important
- New Statesmen 16 May 1980: Jock Kanes
- Eavesdroppers - Time Out article, tracing the rise of eavesdroppers 21-27 May 1976
- Statement of…

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

Donated to the defence campaign

Never Adopted

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

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

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

1979
Ryder / Humphry Story NSA in Britain 1974 - Draft

Post trial

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

- Background material to Crispin's book

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

Pamphlet

Press Cuttings

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

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

MI5

- Pavement / Birmingham Enquirer
- Letters
- Camden News Journal

(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)

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

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

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

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