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81 Oct 19 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	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]
81 Dec 3 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Security: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (Security Commission report) [publication & Government response to recommendations] [released Dec 2023]
81 Dec 15 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Security: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Sir Roger Hollis") [advice on response to 'Times' article by Chapman Pincher, author of 'Their Trade is Treachery', alleging MT statement to Parliament in March was based on misinformation] [released Dec 2023]
82 Jan 7 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Security: No.10 Policy Unit note to MT (letter from Chapman Pincher concerning Sir Roger Hollis) [allegations of collusion by senior civil servants to discredit Pincher's case that former MI5 chief was a Soviet spy] [released Dec 2023]
82 Jan 26 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Security: No.10 Policy Unit note to MT ('Their Trade is Treachery' by Chapman Pincher: Security Service Report on new edition) ["adds no further weight to the case agains [former MI5 chief] Sir Roger Hollis"] [released Dec 2023]
82 Feb 11 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Security: MT letter to John Patten MP (Sir Roger Hollis) [addresses concern raised by Hollis' son regarding fresh allegation] [released Dec 2023]
82 Mar 11 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Security: MT letter to Nicholas Lyell MP (Sir Roger Hollis) [outcome of investigation into sources for spy allegations made by Chapman Pincher] [released Dec 2023]
82 Nov 18 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Security: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Further Publicity About the Security Service") [outcome of legal negotiations following threat of injunction to prevent publication of book by Nigel West] [released Dec 2023]
83 Jan 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Security: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ('After Long Silence' by Michael Whitney Straight) [analysis of potential security threat of book by US author, a former KGB spy recruited by Blunt, due to be published] [released Dec 2023]
83 Jan 21 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Security: Legal Secretary to the Attorney General letter to No.10 (Select Committee on Security) [MT request for arguments that she could deploy against Parliamentary pressure for a Select Committee] [released Dec 2023]
83 Jun 20 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Security: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (Nigel West/Rupert Allason and possible legislative measures to prevent publishing names of individuals concerned with intelligence organisations) [MT agrees to Cecil Parkinson seeking to deter Allason from publishing new book, requests effort be made to identify his sources, and also requests an urgent study of recent US legislation] [released Dec 2023]
83 Jul 19 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Security: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Mrs Jenifer Hart") [background & speaking note concerning recent press accusations that Hart was a Soviet spy] [released Dec 2023]
83 Jul 28 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Security: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (Nigel West/Rupert Allason: publication of new book on the Secret Intelligence Service) [update on efforts to have elements of the book censored & to dissuade Allason from future such publications] [released Dec 2023]
83 Nov 4 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Security: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Robert Armstrong) ["Mr. Nigel West": "decided not to write his proposed book on MI6"] [released Dec 2023]
84 Jul 16 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Security: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("World in Action Programme: Sir Roger Hollis") [provisional line to take: "a rehash of old allegations"] [released Dec 2023]
84 Jul 23 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Security: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (World in Action Programme: Sir Roger Hollis) [cover note only, regarding line to take for PMQs] [released Dec 2023]
84 Jul 23 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Security: MT letter to Anthony Kershaw MP (Sir Roger Hollis) [testimony from a constituent, former second-in-command at GCHQ] [released Dec 2023]
84 Jul 30 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Security: Neil Kinnock MP letter to MT (accountability to Parliament for security breaches) [calls for MT to make statement and for a select committee] [released Dec 2023]
84 Jul 30 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Security: Cabinet Office record of conversation (espionage allegations against Sir Roger Hollis) [Robert Armstrong, Anthony Kershaw MP: discussion of dossier handed to Kershaw by Peter Wright] [released Dec 2023]
84 Aug 3 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Security: Cabinet Office minute to MT (Peter Wright and his allegations about KGB penetration of the Security Service) [cover note only, for confidential letter from retired member of Security Service presenting alternative point of view] [released Dec 2023]
84 Aug 3 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Security: Cabinet Office minute to MT (Peter Wright) [possibility of court action or discontinuation of pension] [released Dec 2023]
84 Aug 3 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Security: MT letter to Neil Kinnock MP (accountability to Parliament for breaches of Security) [names Peter Wright (retired) as likely source of recent leaks to press; confirms Wright's dossier of 'evidence' is being reviewed; defends current system of accountability to Ministers] [released Dec 2023]
84 Sep 7 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Security: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Security Service: Mr Peter Wright's Allegations") [recommended course of action in responding to Anthony Kershaw MP regarding the Wright dossier] [released Dec 2023]
84 Sep 28 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Security: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Security Service: Mr Peter Wright's Allegations") [record of conversation with Sir Anthony Kershaw MP and recommended next steps] [released Dec 2023]
84 Oct 8 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Security: MT letter to Anthony Kershaw MP (Security Service: Mr Peter Wright's Allegations) [conclusions following review of Wright's dossier of 'evidence'] [released Dec 2023]
84 Oct 24 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Security: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Security Service: Mr Peter Wright's Allegations") [draft speech by Anthony Kershaw MP for the Debate on the Address, and draft reply to Kershaw] [released Dec 2023]
84 Nov 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Security: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Security Service: Mr Peter Wright's Allegations") [proposal for a standing Security Commission; draft notes for MT reply if matter is raised in Debate on the Address] [released Dec 2023]
85 Jun 25 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Security: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (Security Service: Mr Peter Wright's Allegations) [plans to challenge publication of his memoirs in court] [released Dec 2023]
85 Aug 7 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Security: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (Mr Peter Wright) [next steps in legal proceedings to prevent publication of memoirs] [released Dec 2023]
85 Sep 26 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Security: Cabinet Office letter to Sir Antony Duff (Peter Wright autobiography: meeting with Lord Rothschild) [form of words to be agreed with Government should Rothschild make public comment in event of his being named in Wright's book] [released Dec 2023]
85 Oct 4 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Security: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (legal proceedings to prevent publication of Peter Wright's autobiography) [latest position] [released Dec 2023]
85 Nov 27 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Security: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (Sir Roger Hollis) [Parliamentary Q&A highlighting fresh testimony from Soviet defectors that Hollis was not a Soviet spy] [released Dec 2023]
85 Nov 27 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Security: No.10 minute to Cabinet Office (Sir Roger Hollis) [MT rejects proposal for Parliamentary Q&A highlighting fresh testimony from Soviet defectors that Hollis was not a Soviet spy] [released Dec 2023]
85 Dec 19 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Security: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (Peter Wright memoirs) [injunction successful in Australian courts; bid to publish in US anticipated] [released Dec 2023]
86 Aug 15 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Security: No.10 minute to MT ("Peter Wright") [clarification of Government's position with regard to ongoing legal fight to prevent publication of memoirs] [released Dec 2023]
86 Sep 9 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Security: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("The Wright Case") [clarification of Government's position with regard to ongoing legal fight to prevent publication of memoirs; possibility of out-of-court settlement] [released Dec 2023]
86 Sep 9 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Security: MT letter to Tam Dalyell MP (Sir Robert Armstrong) [calls for Armstrong to be replaced, given his Peter Wright court case commitments in New South Wales clashing with Westland debate in Parliament] [released Dec 2023]

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