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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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Leo KATZ, alias KAUTZKI: variously described as Czech formerly Austrian, German,...
Catalogue reference: KV 2/1403
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This record is about the Leo KATZ, alias KAUTZKI: variously described as Czech formerly Austrian, German,... dating from 1934 Jan 01 - 1949 Dec 31 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 2/1403
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1934 Jan 01 - 1949 Dec 31
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Description (What the record is about)
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Leo KATZ, alias KAUTZKI: variously described as Czech formerly Austrian, German, stateless and Romanian. Said to be an employee of (W)OSTWAG, or 'The Eastern Trading Company', a firm set up by Soviet Military Intelligence in Berlin in 1922 which provided genuine business cover for a large number of Fourth Department (military intelligence) agents. The file records various business dealings involving KATZ, including the purchase in 1938 of Grumman aircraft ostensibly for Turkey but probably for Republican Spain
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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)
- PF 46527
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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 2003
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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/C11151730/
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KV 2
The Security Service: Personal (PF Series) Files
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