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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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Howard Kingsbury SMITH: American. A student at Oxford in the 1930s, SMITH became...
Catalogue reference: KV 2/3871
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This record is about the Howard Kingsbury SMITH: American. A student at Oxford in the 1930s, SMITH became... dating from 1953 Jun 03 - 1956 Sep 02 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 2/3871
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1953 Jun 03 - 1956 Sep 02
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Description (What the record is about)
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Howard Kingsbury SMITH: American. A student at Oxford in the 1930s, SMITH became a journalist and in the 1950s was the European representative of the Columbia Broadcasting System based in London. Suggestions that SMITH may have had links to Soviet Intelligence in the 1940s were never substantiated and were later discounted
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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 149675 VOL 2
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- Public Record(s)
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- Retained Until 2014
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- Open Document, Open Description
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14540346/
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KV 2
The Security Service: Personal (PF Series) Files
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