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DG White 1942-1943 lecture notes re Counter-Espionage investigations and organisation...
Catalogue reference: KV 4/170
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This record is about the DG White 1942-1943 lecture notes re Counter-Espionage investigations and organisation... dating from 1942 Jan 01- 1942 Dec 31 in the series The Security Service: Policy (Pol F Series) Files. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- KV 4/170
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1942 Jan 01- 1942 Dec 31
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Description (What the record is about)
- DG White 1942-1943 lecture notes re Counter-Espionage investigations and organisation including notes on Radio Security Section and Government Code and Cypher School. In addition to the notes for, and a transcript of, a 1943 lecture given by DG White on Counter-Espionage, this file also contains: a note on the history of the Radio Security Section dated 1942; a note on the role of Wolfgang zu Putlitz in MI5's reporting to the Foreign Office on German affairs between 1936 and 1939; memoranda by DG White and Guy Liddell written in 1942 on progress so far in countering German espionage (White's memo probably written in the context of a lecture).
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- POLF50-82-39 SUPP A VOL 1
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- Public Record(s)
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- Retained Until 2002
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11090120/
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KV 4
The Security Service: Policy (Pol F Series) Files
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