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Accessions administration: KV 2
Catalogue reference: PRO 57/15934
Date: 2000 Jan 1 - 2003 Dec 31
Accessions administration: KV 2
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DEUTSCHE UBERSEEDIENST. This organisation was established in the First World War...
Catalogue reference: KV 2/1116
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This record is about the DEUTSCHE UBERSEEDIENST. This organisation was established in the First World War... dating from 1920 Nov 10-1945 Dec 13 in the series The Security Service: Personal (PF 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 2/1116
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1920 Nov 10-1945 Dec 13
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Description (What the record is about)
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DEUTSCHE UBERSEEDIENST. This organisation was established in the First World War as a commercial and economic information bureau. After the war, when Germany was required under the Treaty of Versailles to give up its secret service, Deutsche Uberseedienst was used both by German industrial concerns and the German General Staff to collect political and military intelligence as well as commercial information. By 1930 financial support from the German War Ministry seemed to have ceased and by 1936 its intelligence collection role had been absorbed by the Abwehr
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Photoopy of microfiche
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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)
- PF37884
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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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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11090414/
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KV 2
The Security Service: Personal (PF Series) Files
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This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
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Within the series: KV 2
The Security Service: Personal (PF Series) Files
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