Overview
Reports
Date
Originator
MPS-UCPI
Title
Home Office
UCPI0000035119
Letter from Waddell (Home Office) to Sir Philip Allen attaching draft letter to Commissioner about overlap between Special Branch and MI5
Home Office
UCPI0000035124
Draft Letter to Commissioner Sir Joseph Simpson about the possibility of overlap between Special Branch and MI5
Home Office
UCPI0000035123
Letter from Sir Philip Allen to Brodie on review of possible overlap between Special Branch and MI5
Home Office
UCPI0000034284
Notes on a meeting of Home Office, MI5 and Special Branch about their related roles, held at the Home Office on 13 Nov 1967
Committee on Subversion (Home)
UCPI0000035232
Minutes of a meeting of the Official Committee on Communism (Home) discussing student protest, 24 July 1968 (CAB 301-509)
Committee on Subversion (Home)
UCPI0000035233
Minutes of a meeting of the Official Committee on Communism (Home) discussing student protest and how to disrupt and counter-propagandise it (CAB 301-509)
Metropolitan Police Special Branch
MPS-0724120
Met Police letter to Home Office on continuation of the SDS after the Oct 27 1968 demo
Metropolitan Police Special Branch
MPS-0724117
Memo from Ferguson Smith on meeting with Home Office where long-term viability of SDS discussed
Home Office
MPS-0724116
Home Office letter from James Waddell to Peter Brodie concerning expenditure on accommodation
Home Office
UCPI0000035273
Briefing note for Cabinet Secretary ahead of first meeting of the Official Committee on Subversion at Home since its broader remit (CAB 301-536)
Cabinet Office
UCPI0000035230
Minutes of a meeting of the Official Committee on Subversion at Home discussing MI5 note on ‘Subversion in the United Kingdom’ (CAB 134-3248)
Metropolitan Police Special Branch
MPS-0728973
SDS Annual Report 1969, inc letter from Asst Commissioner seeking authorisation to continue
Home Office
MPS-0724109
Home Office letter from David Stotesbury to Peter Brodie about expenditure on accommodation
Committee on Subversion (Home)
UCPI0000035226
Meeting minutes of the Official Committee on Subversion at Home discussing student protest, 11 Mar 1970 (CAB 134-3248)
Committee on Subversion (Home)
UCPI0000035274
Briefing note for Cabinet Secretary aheaf of meeting of the Official Committee on Subversion at Home (CAB 301-536)
Committee on Subversion (Home)
UCPI0000035227
Minutes of meeting of Official Committee on Subversion at Home discussing the industrial situation and student protest, 27 Nov 1970 (CAB 134-3248)
Metropolitan Police Special Branch
MPS-0724132
Letter from Brodie to Waddell (HO) concerning SDS expenditure
Home Office
MPS-0724130
Home Office letter to Commissioner authorising expenditure on accomodation
Metropolitan Police Special Branch
MPS-0728971
SDS Annual Report 1971, inc letter to Home Office seeking authorisation to continue
Home Office
MPS-0724177
Home Office letter, Waddell replying to Brodie authorising continued expenditure on accommodation
Cabinet Office
UCPI0000035279
Minutes of the first meeting of the Official Group supporting the Ministerial Committee on Subversion, and Sub-Group on Industry (CAB 301-494)
Metropolitan Police Special Branch
MPS_0728970
SDS Annual Report 1972, inc letter to Home Office seeking authorisation to continue
Cabinet Office
UCPI0000035268
Letter from Cabinet Secretary Home Office on terms of reference and structure of the new Group on Subversion in Public Life (CAB 301-492)
Group on Subversion in Public Life
UCPI0000035269
Composition and Terms of Reference for the Interdepartmental Group on Subversion in Public Life, 1972 (CAB 301-492)
MI5
UCPI0000031254
MI5 Loose Minute submitting Special Branch report on industrial matters and detailing concerns regarding Special Branch coverage of 'Industrial Subversion' (report wholly redacted, only MI5's scathing response)
Group on Subversion in Public Life
UCPI0000035263
Group on Subversion in Public Life report ‘The Impact of Subversive Groups on Trade Union Activity’ plus cover letter and list of recipients (CAB 301-491)
Cabinet Office
UCPI0000035270
Cover letter to Home Secretary for first report from the Group on Subversion in Public Life (CAB 301-492)
Group on Subversion in Public Life
UCPI0000035262
Meeting minutes of the Group on Subversion in Public Life, 23 Oct 1972 (CAB 301-491)
Group on Subversion in Public Life
UCPI0000035258
Group on Subversion in Public Life report ‘Claimants and Unemployed Workers Unions’, with Home Office cover letter to Cabinet Secretary (CAB 301-490-1)
MI5
UCPI0000031256
MI5 note for policy file reporting meeting with senior Met officers discussing an increase in Special Branch assistance in coverage of 'subversion in industry’
Cabinet Office
UCPI0000035261
Discussion document on the definition of subversion, the remit of MI5, and the desire for secret units to monitor industrial politics, plus letters relating to the doc (CAB 301-491)
Home Office
UCPI0000035266
Home Office letter to Cabinet Secretary on Group on Subversion in Public Life's paper on the NUM and suggesting circulation to Ministers (CAB 301-491)
Cabinet Office
UCPI0000035265
Letters discussing the distribution list for papers from the Group on Subversion in Public Life (CAB 301-491)
Cabinet Office
UCPI0000035264
Cabinet Secretary letter to Prime Minister detailing Ministerial meeting to be held on industrial intelligence and subversion (CAB 301-491)
Group on Subversion in Public Life
UCPI0000035272
Meeting minutes of Group on Subversion in Public Life, 17 Dec 1973 and 27 Nov 1972 (CAB 301-494)
Metropolitan Police Special Branch
MPS-0730906
SDS Annual Report 1974, inc letters to Home Office seeking authorisation to continue
Home Office
UCPI0000035102
Letter from James Waddell (Home Office) to the Home Secretary on dealing with allegations of Special Branch infiltrating trade unions, and SB's relationship with MI5
Home Office
UCPI0000035101
Letter to James Waddell (Home Office) on the Home Secretary meeting backbench MPs discussing Special Branch targeting of industrial matters and trade unions
Home Office
UCPI0000034700
Notes from meeting between the Home Secretary and certain Members of Parliament on Special Branch and infiltration of trade unions
Home Office
UCPI0000035100
Follow-up letter to James Waddell (Home Office) on the Home Secretary meeting backbench MPs discussing Special Branch targeting of industrial matters and trade unions
MI5
UCPI0000004545
Letter to Chief Constables from MI5 on ‘Subversive Activities in Industrial Disputes’
Home Office
UCPI0000034699
Home Office letter following discussions held over allegations of infiltration of trade unions by Special Branch
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
UCPI0000035242
Report on history and function of the government's Information Research Department to counter subversion, inc covering letter from Foreign Office to Home Office (CAB 301-488)
Home Office
MPS-0730676
Letter from Home Office to Assistant Commissioner authorising continuation of SDS in 1975/76
MI5
UCPI0000035309
MI5 report ‘The Security Significance of the Ultra Left in the UK in 1974’, inc cover from Home Office to Cabinet Secretary (CAB 163-268)
Home Office
UCPI0000035249
Home Office letter to Cabinet Secretary on extending methods of countering and discrediting subversive people and organisations (CAB 301-489)
Cabinet Office
UCPI0000035245
Letter from Cabinet Secretary proposing reinvigorating the Group on Subversion in Public Life and the Committee on Subversion at Home (CAB 301-489)
Cabinet Office
UCPI0000035316
Briefing Note for Cabinet Secretary for upcoming meeting of the Subversion (Home) Committee (CAB 301-489)
Home Office
UCPI0000004427
Home Office F4 paper on the review of the work of Special Branches, with internal cover letter