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Cedric Henning BELFRAGE: British. A left-wing journalist in Los Angeles in the 1930s,...

Catalogue reference: KV 2/4007

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This record is about the Cedric Henning BELFRAGE: British. A left-wing journalist in Los Angeles in the 1930s,... dating from 1955 May 24 - 1955 Sep 27 in the series The Security Service: Personal (PF Series) Files. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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KV 2/4007
Date
1955 May 24 - 1955 Sep 27
Description

Cedric Henning BELFRAGE: British. A left-wing journalist in Los Angeles in the 1930s, BELFRAGE worked during the war first for the British Security Coordination in New York then the Political War Executive in London. This work took him to Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF) in Paris to deal with press affairs. In 1946 the US authorities learned that he had been passing information to Soviet Intelligence in the 1940s. He was arrested in 1953 and served with a deportation warrant. Back in Britain and thereafter BELFRAGE remained in regular contact with communists and communist-linked organisations

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The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
PF 603441 VOL 4
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Access conditions
Retained Until 2015
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14895019/

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