The Document Database presents all documents released by the UCPI, plus a Library of background material - the latest documents first.
The Inquiry documents can be filtered by date, tranche, spycop, group and more, and searched by keyword. For ease of navigation they are in three separate databases:
Disclosure is where you will find all files released by the Inquiry as part of its investigations. This includes the contemporaneous reports of spycops, managerial correspondence and notes of meetings with MI5.
Statements and Transcripts has all witness statements, and opening and closing statements, as well as the transcripts of the hearings.
Procedural includes all documents from the start of the Inquiry in 2015 until the hearings began in 2020.
The Library is a collection of background material to the spycops scandal - essentially relevant reading sourced outside the Inquiry, including the various early reviews.
The filtering fields follow the material: date, author, type, originator/publisher.
MI5 Note for File reporting meeting between MI5 and senior Special Branch officers with mention of new ’special squad’ and active offer of its help to MI5, Aug 1968
Report on Notting Hill VSC meeting inc discussing summonses given to members involved with Powis Square demo of 25 May, held at Essex Church Hall W8 on 28 Aug 1968
Report on a group of people, inc Manchanda, seen meeting, going to the pub then on to a meeting of the Revolutionary Socialist Students Federation at Regent St Polytechnic on 4 Sept 1968
Report that a member of the National Executive of Young Liberals is secretly working for International Socialists and trying to get YL to support the VSC ‘Autumn Offensive’ demo on Oct 27
