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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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Irving POTASH: American. A member of the US Communist Party from its early years,...
Catalogue reference: KV 2/4053
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This record is about the Irving POTASH: American. A member of the US Communist Party from its early years,... dating from 1956 Jun 15 - 1963 Feb 11 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 2/4053
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1956 Jun 15 - 1963 Feb 11
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Description (What the record is about)
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Irving POTASH: American. A member of the US Communist Party from its early years, Potash was expelled from the USA in 1955 and settled in Czechoslovakia. In 1957 he returned to the USA on communist business only to be arrested as an illegal entrant and imprisoned. On his release he resumed communist activity becoming National Labour Secretary of the Communist Party USA
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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 76030 VOL 2
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- Public Record(s)
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- Retained Until 2015
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14895001/
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KV 2
The Security Service: Personal (PF Series) Files
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