Highlights of new Freedom of Information releases in March 2007

his is the fifth release of Security Service records since the full implementation of the Freedom of Information Act in January 2005. Though exempt from the Act, the Security Service will continue to make its records available to researchers. This, the fifteenth Security Service release, contains 268 files, bringing the total number of its records in the public domain to over 3,500.

Highlights of the release include:

+ British atom spy Alan Nunn May, his wife Hildegarde and other atomic scientists including Leo Kowarski and Boris Davison

+ Undetected Second World War Abwehr spies in Britain Albert Meems and Paul Borchardt

+ Society photographer John Scott (also known as Vasilje Vojinovic)

+ Japanese intelligence officer Kaoru Matusomoto, and Japanese intelligence operations generally

+ Friend and correspondent of Lord Haw Haw John McNab

+ Dockyard Communist John Salisbury, involved in sabotage of Navy submarines

+ Barrister and Indian Communist Krishna Menon

+ Writers Olivia Manning, W H Auden, Christopher Isherwood and Sefton Delmer

+ Kenyan nationalist Peter Koinange

+ Count von Moltke, Otto John and Anti-Nazi movements in Germany

+ British internment policy and control of aliens, immigration etc during wartime and in emergencies

Source: National Archives (UK)

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