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Helmut CLISSMANN / Elizabeth CLISSMANN: German. A student and leading Nazi Party...
Catalogue reference: KV 6/81
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This record is about the Helmut CLISSMANN / Elizabeth CLISSMANN: German. A student and leading Nazi Party... dating from 1946 Feb 19 - 1956 Jan 18 in the series The Security Service: List (L Series) Files. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- KV 6/81
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1946 Feb 19 - 1956 Jan 18
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Description (What the record is about)
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Helmut CLISSMANN / Elizabeth CLISSMANN: German. A student and leading Nazi Party member in Dublin in the second half of the 1930's, CLISSMANN seems to have worked both for the Abwehr and the Jahnke Bureau, a political intelligence-gathering organisation working on behalf of the Nazi Party. This work involved establishing pre-war links with the IRA. Early in the war the Abwehr planned to send CLISSMANN to Wales to make contact with Welsh nationalists, or if that bid failed, to contact IRA elements in Britain. CLISSMANN worked during the war for an Irish Bureau in the German Foreign Office. He later operated an Abwehr unit in Tunis. His wife, Elizabeth, also worked for the German Foreign Office
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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- L 291-3 VOL 2
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- Public Record(s)
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- Retained Until 2008
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- Topics
- International
- Fascism
- Ireland
- Intelligence
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11477016/
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KV 6
The Security Service: List (L Series) Files
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