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1983 Jan 19 - 1984 Jan 23

Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1384
Security (South African diplomat accused of spying for Russia)

Document type:	File list item
Source:	TNA, PREM19 series
Release date:	2014 Jan 3
Classification:	Top Secret
Page count:	36
Any docs withheld?	2

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Date	Value	Title
83 Jan 19 Wed		Security: Cabinet Office minute to MT (security case) [possibility of defection to USSR; return to "place of origin"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Sep 8 Thu		Security: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (Commodore Dieter Gerhardt and British operations in the South Atlantic) [trial in South Africa for Soviet espionage - no truth in speculation he passed information to Russians about British operations] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 20 Tue		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]
84 Jan 23 Mon		Security: MT letter to Ted Leadbitter (Commodore Dieter Gerhardt and British operations in the South Atlantic) [trial in South Africa for Soviet espionage: "no basis whatever for your surmises that Gerhardt in some way compromised our operations"] [declassified Jan 2014]