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Security: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Gouzenko") [confidential background note on Soviet defector & on UK spy 'ELLI' in response to press article by Chapman Pincher, author of 'Their Trade is Treachery'] [released Dec 2023]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: PREM19/1951 f270
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Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 4pp
Themes: Media, Parliament, British relations with the Soviet Union, British relations with Canada, Foreign policy (USSR & successor states), Security services & intelligence

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