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Paul LOEW-BEER (1) / Rachel Alice LOEW-BEER (2), aliases Paul LOW BEER / Alice LOEW-BEER,...
Catalogue reference: KV 2/2184
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This record is about the Paul LOEW-BEER (1) / Rachel Alice LOEW-BEER (2), aliases Paul LOW BEER / Alice LOEW-BEER,... dating from 1942 Jan 01 - 1943 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 2/2184
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Date (When the record was created)
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1942 Jan 01 - 1943 Dec 31
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Description (What the record is about)
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Paul LOEW-BEER (1) / Rachel Alice LOEW-BEER (2), aliases Paul LOW BEER / Alice LOEW-BEER, Ala LOEW-BEER, Rachel Alice RABINOWITSCH: (1) Austrian (2) Russian/Austrian. Paul LOEW-BEER was an Austrian chemist and businessman who arrived in the UK as a refugee from Czechoslovakia and Austria in 1938. He had strong communist links in Austria in the 1920s and 1930s; and from 1940 to 1946 was actively involved and influential in a number of UK-based communist dominated or influenced Austrian ?migr? organisations. LOEW-BEER returned to Austria in 1948. Despite his strong international communist links and prominence as a businessman and financier there is no clear evidence in these files that he was ever a Soviet Intelligence agent. These files contain few independent references to their joint subject, Alice LOEW-BEER, a Doctor who evidently shared her husband's communist sympathies
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Note (Additional information about the record)
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Serial 106a: review of case. Serial 107a: LOEW-BEER as member of Communist Cell in Vienna
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- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
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PF 48969 VOL 4
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Public Record(s)
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Retained Until 2006
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Open Document, Open Description
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KV 2
The Security Service: Personal (PF Series) Files
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