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Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1951
Security (Security of the Secret Service: Chapman Pincher's Book 'Their Trade Is Treachery' and related papers including those relating to Sir Roger Hollis; the Peter Wright Case) (Part 2)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2023 Dec 29
Classification: Top Secret - Cab One
Page count: 274
Any docs withheld? 24
Themes: Security services & intelligence

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Date Value Title
84 Aug 3 Fr Major Security: Cabinet Office minute to MT (Peter Wright) [possibility of court action or discontinuation of pension] [released Dec 2023]
84 Aug 3 Fr Major 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 Major 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 Major 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 Major 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 Major 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 Major 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 Major 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 Major 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 Major 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 Major 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 Major 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 Major 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 Major 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 Major 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 Major 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 Major 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]