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Leakage of top secret Foreign Office telegrams in the USA: evidence and investigation....
Catalogue reference: KV 6/145
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This record is about the Leakage of top secret Foreign Office telegrams in the USA: evidence and investigation.... dating from 1951 Oct 02 - 1956 Feb 06 in the series The Security Service: List (L Series) Files. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- KV 6/145
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1951 Oct 02 - 1956 Feb 06
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Description (What the record is about)
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Leakage of top secret Foreign Office telegrams in the USA: evidence and investigation. This is the Security Service's file for the investigation of a leakage in Washington which led to the unmasking of Donald MACLEAN as a Soviet agent and his flight to Moscow with Guy BURGESS
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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)
- L 305-0121-42 VOL 6
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- Public Record(s)
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- Open on Transfer
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- Topics
- International
- Americas
- Communications
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14943878/
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KV 6
The Security Service: List (L Series) Files
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