Overview
Michael Hanley
Michael Hanley

Michael Hanley was a career intelligence officer who joined MI5 in 1948 and became its director general in 1972. According to one commentator, Hanley made ‘domestic subversion’ the Security Service’s main priority on his watch. 

Hanley’s name appears on Inquiry documents relating to the Subversion in Public Life Committee.

Reports

CSV
Date
Originator
MPS-UCPI
Title
Cabinet Office
UCPI0000035271
Home Office letter to Cabinet Secretary recommending increasing co-ordination and assessing intelligence about subversion in industrial disputes (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)
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)
Group on Subversion in Public Life
UCPI0000035262
Meeting minutes of the Group on Subversion in Public Life, 23 Oct 1972 (CAB 301-491)
MI5
UCPI0000035267
MI5 letter to Home Office on the definition of subversion (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)
Cabinet Office
UCPI0000035327
Letter from Cabinet Secretary to Arthur Peterson saying new Prime Minister wants resumption of secret Industrial Assessments Group and Subversion in Public Life groups (CAB 301-484)
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
MI5
UCPI0000035288
Draft letter to all Chief Constables from Michael Hanley (MI5) on subversive activities in industrial disputes
Cabinet Office
UCPI0000035240
Letter from Moss to Cabinet Secretary on potential House of Lords debate on subversion (CAB 301-488)
Cabinet Office
UCPI0000035248
Cabinet Office letter on history and revival of the Committee on Subversion at Home and the Group on Subversion in Public Life, with terms and composition of the latter (CAB 301-489)
Metropolitan Police Special Branch
MPS-0735762
Correspondence between Home Office and Met about a memorandum agreement on improving liaison between MI5 and Special Branch
MI5
UCPI0000035247
MI5 report ‘The Threat of Subversion to the UK – April 1976’, with Home Office cover letter (CAB 301-489)
Cabinet Office
UCPI0000035246
Note of a meeting held to discuss the threat of subversion in the UK and reactivation of the interdepartmental Group on Subversion in Public Life (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)
Group on Subversion in Public Life
UCPI0000035243
Revised Composition and Terms of Reference for the Interdepartmental Group on Subversion in Public Life, 1976 (CAB 301-489)
Home Office
UCPI0000035325
Home Office letter to Cabinet Secretary on reactivation of the Subversion in Public Life and Subversion (Home) Committees (CAB 163-269)
Metropolitan Police Special Branch
UCPI0000035329
Meeting minutes of reconstituted Inter-Departmental Group on Subversion in Public Life, held at Cabinet Office on 10 Nov 1976 (CAB 163-269)
Cabinet Office
UCPI0000035334
Minutes of a meeting of the Interdepartmental Group on Subversion in Public Life discussing MI5 report 'The Threat of Subversion in the UK', held at Cabinet Office on 11 July 1977 (CAB 163-269)