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Ezekil PAPAIOANNOU alias Ezekiel, Jezekias PAPAIOANNOU, PAPPY: Cypriot. An active...

Catalogue reference: KV 2/4400

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This record is about the Ezekil PAPAIOANNOU alias Ezekiel, Jezekias PAPAIOANNOU, PAPPY: Cypriot. An active... dating from 1930 Dec 31 - 1943 Jul 31 in the series The Security Service: Personal (PF Series) Files. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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KV 2/4400
Date
1930 Dec 31 - 1943 Jul 31
Description

Ezekil PAPAIOANNOU alias Ezekiel, Jezekias PAPAIOANNOU, PAPPY: Cypriot. An active communist in London in the 1930s, PAPAIONNIOU went briefly to Spain with the International Brigade. Throughout the 1940s and 1950s he remained an active communist holding various offices in the Cypriot political party AKEL (The Progressive Party of Working People). During the Emergency AKEL was proscribed in Cyprus. PAPAIONNIOU was detained but while in a Nicosia hospital escaped from custody to resume communist activity internationally

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The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
PF 801528 VOL 1
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Access conditions
Retained Until 2017
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C16548877/

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