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Accessions administration: KV 4
Catalogue reference: PRO 57/15936
Date: 2000 Jan 1 - 2003 Dec 31
Accessions administration: KV 4
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Organisation and functions of Security Service Press Section and Library (A1C). The...
Catalogue reference: KV 4/177
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This record is about the Organisation and functions of Security Service Press Section and Library (A1C). The... dating from 1940 Aug 10-1945 Nov 15 in the series The Security Service: Policy (Pol F Series) Files. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- KV 4/177
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1940 Aug 10-1945 Nov 15
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Description (What the record is about)
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Organisation and functions of Security Service Press Section and Library (A1C). The Press Section was responsible for providing a regular survey of press coverage of matters of interest to the Service and a press cuttings service to the rest of theoffice, and also for maintaining liaison with journalists who were providing information to the Service. The file contains an idiosyncratic account of his job by the organiser of the Press Section, including the statement that, during the five years that he had been doing this kind of work, he had known only three newspapermen who were well-informed and, at the same time, discreet
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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)
- POLF50-24-11
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Retained Until 2002
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- Open Document, Open Description
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11090124/
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KV 4
The Security Service: Policy (Pol F Series) Files
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