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Rose COHEN: British/naturalised Russian. A journalist, COHEN visited the Soviet Union...
Catalogue reference: KV 2/1397
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This record is about the Rose COHEN: British/naturalised Russian. A journalist, COHEN visited the Soviet Union... dating from 1938 Jan 01 - 1952 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 2/1397
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1938 Jan 01 - 1952 Dec 31
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Rose COHEN: British/naturalised Russian. A journalist, COHEN visited the Soviet Union in 1923 and was thereafter a regular visitor. She is first alleged to be 'an important member of the Communist Party' in 1922 and was on close terms with the group of communists centred on the Federated Press of America when that organisation was engaged in espionage during the 1920s. From about 1927 she was resident in Russia. In 1937 her husband was arrested in Moscow during the Stalin purges as an alleged Trotskyite and COHEN sentenced to a Siberian Labour camp, following which she disappeared
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- PF 38437 VOL 3
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- Retained Until 2003
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- Open Document, Open Description
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