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Joseph KING: British. In 1916 the New York Times published a letter to an American...
Catalogue reference: KV 2/823
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This record is about the Joseph KING: British. In 1916 the New York Times published a letter to an American... dating from 1916 Sep 09-1938 Dec 31 in the series The Security Service: Personal (PF Series) Files. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- KV 2/823
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1916 Sep 09-1938 Dec 31
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Joseph KING: British. In 1916 the New York Times published a letter to an American acquaintance from KING, then a Member of Parliament, in which he reported news of the destruction of a huge explosive store near Calais in a bombing raid. Evidence was found that the report, which was true, had been passed in turn to Germany from America. Eventually it was claimed in the German press as a major coup. KING was prosecuted for communicating information likely to be useful to an enemy and fined one hundred pounds
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- PF5420
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- Public Record(s)
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- English
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- file(s)
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- Retained Until 2002
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- Open Document, Open Description
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