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Reports on USSR military and civil messages: including tactical air activity, references...
Catalogue reference: HW 75/365
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This record is about the Reports on USSR military and civil messages: including tactical air activity, references... dating from 1950 May 03 - 1950 Jun 13 in the series Government Communications Headquarters and predecessor: Soviet Bloc reports. 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)
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HW 75/365
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Date (When the record was created)
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1950 May 03 - 1950 Jun 13
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Description (What the record is about)
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Reports on USSR military and civil messages: including tactical air activity, references to call-up and demobilisation, MVD personalities, naval and naval-air activity in the Pacific, military academies, difficulties in obtaining additional personnel for MGB Directorate at Magadan, possible new MGB Directorate for Countering Embezzlement and Speculation, Field Post Numbers of submarine units of 5th Fleet
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Note (Additional information about the record)
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C1476 missing at transfer
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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)
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S/ARU/C1452-C1477
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Retained Until 2013
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
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Open Document, Open Description
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Europe and Russia
- Intelligence
- Navy
- Crime
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C13369136/
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Series information
HW 75
Government Communications Headquarters and predecessor: Soviet Bloc reports
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Reports on USSR military and civil messages: including tactical air activity, references...
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