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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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Ernest WOOLLEY / Emma Elizabeth JANSEN: British. Both subjects of this file were...
Catalogue reference: KV 2/2683
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This record is about the Ernest WOOLLEY / Emma Elizabeth JANSEN: British. Both subjects of this file were... dating from 1922 Mar 03 - 1935 Apr 04 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 2/2683
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1922 Mar 03 - 1935 Apr 04
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Description (What the record is about)
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Ernest WOOLLEY / Emma Elizabeth JANSEN: British. Both subjects of this file were active communists from the 1920s. Emma WOOLLEY, who was German-born, acted as a Comintern courier in the 1930s. She worked for Arcos in London between 1932 and 1935. Her brother-in-law was Alexander RADO, the Soviet spy. Ernest WOOLLEY was Daily Worker correspondent in Moscow in the 1930s. They divorced in 1945
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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 39010 VOL 1
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- Public Record(s)
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- Retained Until 2007
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11377575/
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KV 2
The Security Service: Personal (PF Series) Files
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