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Sidney Wilfred SCOTT: New Zealander. Born in Ilfield, England, SCOTT was a former...
Catalogue reference: KV 6/139
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This record is about the Sidney Wilfred SCOTT: New Zealander. Born in Ilfield, England, SCOTT was a former... dating from 1959 Oct 26 - 1961 Jun 03 in the series The Security Service: List (L Series) Files. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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KV 6/139
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1959 Oct 26 - 1961 Jun 03
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Sidney Wilfred SCOTT: New Zealander. Born in Ilfield, England, SCOTT was a former General Secretary of the Communist Party of New Zealand (CPNZ) and its leading Marxist theorist and publicist. Throughout the 1950s Scott found himself increasingly out of step with the views of the rest of the CPNZ leadership and repudiated communism in his autobiography 'Rebel in a Wrong Cause' (1960). His defection from the CPNZ was followed by the resignation of 100 other members
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L 212-177 VOL 2
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The Security Service: List (L Series) Files
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