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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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Desmond Patrick COSTELLO and Bella COSTELLO, alias LERNER: British. Born in New Zealand,...
Catalogue reference: KV 2/4329
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This record is about the Desmond Patrick COSTELLO and Bella COSTELLO, alias LERNER: British. Born in New Zealand,... dating from 1951 Jan 29 - 1959 Mar 13 in the series The Security Service: Personal (PF Series) Files. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- KV 2/4329
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1951 Jan 29 - 1959 Mar 13
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Description (What the record is about)
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Desmond Patrick COSTELLO and Bella COSTELLO, alias LERNER: British. Born in New Zealand, Desmond COSTELLO came to Cambridge University in 1934 where he was reported to have strong communist sympathies. Bella COSTELLO was recorded as a communist Party official in Exeter during the war. Between 1944 and 1950 Desmond COSTELLO was a member of the New Zealand legation in Moscow and subsequently in Paris. In 1955 he was appointed to Manchester University. In 1960 Bella COSTELLO is believed to have applied for a death certificate on behalf of Soviet intelligence, used later to acquire a false identity for the Soviet spy, KROGER. Her husband was a suspected Soviet contact also
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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 43334 VOL 2
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- Public Record(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Retained Until 2017
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- Open Document, Open Description
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C16412897/
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KV 2
The Security Service: Personal (PF Series) Files
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