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Series
Colonial Office: Intelligence and Security Departments: Registered Files (ISD Series)
Catalogue reference: CO 1035
What's it about?
CO 1035
This series contains registered files of the Colonial Office departments dealing with matters relating to the security of British colonies and colonial intelligence matters.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- CO 1035
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Title (The name of the record)
- Colonial Office: Intelligence and Security Departments: Registered Files (ISD Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1954-1968
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains registered files of the Colonial Office departments dealing with matters relating to the security of British colonies and colonial intelligence matters.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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See also: FCO 141
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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)
- ISD Series
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 353 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 2007 Foreign and Commonwealth Office
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- International
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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Colonial intelligence and security matters were handled by a number of Colonial Office departments in this period, which dealt with liaison with the military and intelligence services, local colonial intelligence organisations, police and security matters, civil defence and emergency regulations for particular colonies and for the colonies generally. From 1959 to 1961, the Intelligence, Police and Security Department had responsibility for these matters. As the number of remaining colonial territories decreased, there were frequent reorganisations of the remaining work: responsibility passed to the Defence, Intelligence and Security Department in 1961; to the Defence, Intelligence and Hong Kong Department in 1963, and finally to the Defence and Intelligence Department in 1965. In 1966 the Colonial Office and the Commonwealth Relations Office merged, and colonial intelligence and security matters in the Commonwealth Office passed to the Defence Department.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C5224/
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