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Security: MT letter to Ted Leadbitter MP (Commodore Dieter Gerhardt and British operations in the South Atlantic) [trial in South Africa for Soviet espionage; "absolutely no evidence... that Gerhardt may have obtained or disclosed information from British sources on operations in the South Atlantic last year"] [declassified Jan 2014]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: PREM19/1384 f10
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Importance ranking: Minor
Word count: 20pp
Themes: Labour Party & socialism, Media, Parliament, British relations with the Soviet Union, British policy towards South Africa, Foreign policy (USSR & successor states), Foreign policy (Americas excluding USA), Defence (Falklands), Security services & intelligence