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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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George Charles ELTENTON / Ada Dorothea ELTENTON: British. A physicist, George ELTENTON...
Catalogue reference: KV 2/2166
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This record is about the George Charles ELTENTON / Ada Dorothea ELTENTON: British. A physicist, George ELTENTON... dating from 1931 Jan 01 - 1951 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 2/2166
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1931 Jan 01 - 1951 Dec 31
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Description (What the record is about)
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George Charles ELTENTON / Ada Dorothea ELTENTON: British. A physicist, George ELTENTON visited the USSR in 1931 under the auspices of the Society for Cultural Relations with the USSR and from 1933 to 1938 worked at the Institute of Chemical Physics in Leningrad. In 1942 while working in the USA he made indirect contact with Robert OPPENHEIMER with a request for information for the USSR about atom bomb technology. His wife Ada shared his communist sympathies
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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 43399 VOL 1
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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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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11270993/
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KV 2
The Security Service: Personal (PF Series) Files
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