On one occa­sion, for example, a school­boy had writ­ten to the - TopicsExpress



          

On one occa­sion, for example, a school­boy had writ­ten to the Com­mun­ist Party ask­ing for inform­a­tion for a topic he was pre­par­ing at school. His let­ter was copied (all mail to the CPGB was copied by MI5) and used to cre­ate a Per­sonal File (PF), where he was iden­ti­fied before being recor­ded as a ‘?com­mun­ist sym­path­iser’. On another occa­sion, a man divor­cing his wife had writ­ten to MI5 claim­ing she was involved in com­mun­ism. For that, his wife got a PF again as a ‘?com­mun­ist sym­path­iser’. In both cases, the sus­pect only came to the atten­tion of the ser­vice on that one occa­sion. So why was this inform­a­tion still avail­able to desk officers some twenty years after these indi­vidu­als had first come to atten­tion, in less than sus­pi­cious circumstances?
Posted on: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 19:17:23 +0000

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