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Attempted sabotage on BOAC Liberator AM 262. This file covers the investigation of...
Catalogue reference: KV 3/274
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This record is about the Attempted sabotage on BOAC Liberator AM 262. This file covers the investigation of... dating from 1942 Jan 01 - 1942 Dec 31 in the series The Security Service: Subject (SF series) Files. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- KV 3/274
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1942 Jan 01 - 1942 Dec 31
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Description (What the record is about)
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Attempted sabotage on BOAC Liberator AM 262. This file covers the investigation of what was at first reported as an attempt to assassinate the wartime Polish General Sikorski by means of an incendiary device aboard a British aircraft taking him to Canada in 1942. The conclusion of the investigation was that there had been no such attempt and that the device had been taken on board General Sikorski's plane by one of his accompanying Polish officers, who eventually admitted that he had been given it as a souvenir and kept it in his gasmask
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- With photographs
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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)
- SF 54-7-218 VOL 1
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- Public Record(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Retained Until 2006
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- Topics
- Air transport
- Weapons
- Americas
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The Security Service: Subject (SF series) Files
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