Blacklisting and Reporting on Trade Unions

MI5 paper ‘Subversion in Industry and the Mass Media, 1965 – 1971’ and associated correspondence among government officials (FCO 168-4448)

Letter from Sir Leslie Glass of the Counter-Subversion Committee on new Ministerial group to expose subversives in the media (FCO 168 – 4797)

Minutes of the first meeting of the Official Group supporting the Ministerial Committee on Subversion, and Sub-Group on Industry (CAB 301-494)

MI5 note for policy file reporting meeting with DAC Gilbert and Commander Rodger after Commissioner’s ruling that Special Branch must not have agents in industrial affairs

Meeting minutes of Group on Subversion in Public Life, 17 Dec 1973 and 27 Nov 1972 (CAB 301-494)

Special Branch Annual Report 1973

Letter from James Waddell (Home Office) to the Home Secretary on dealing with allegations of Special Branch infiltrating trade unions, and SB's relationship with MI5

Letter to James Waddell (Home Office) on the Home Secretary meeting backbench MPs discussing Special Branch targeting of industrial matters and trade unions

Notes from meeting between the Home Secretary and certain Members of Parliament on Special Branch and infiltration of trade unions

Draft letter to all Chief Constables from Michael Hanley (MI5) on subversive activities in industrial disputes

Home Office letter following discussions held over allegations of infiltration of trade unions by Special Branch

Draft Security Service paper on 'Guidelines for the Police in connection with Enquiries at Government Departments and Others' about MI5 passing info on government employees to their departments

Report on personal employment details of the secretary of Wandsworth International Socialists

Letter to Special Branch from the Security Service responding to the issue of passing security information to employers

Report on personal and political details of a member of Finsbury Park SWP

Report on personal and political details of a leading member of the Building Workers Rank and File group

Report on personal details of a member of Cricklewood SWP who was also a shop steward at the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers

Report that an SWP member has been sacked from Fords at Dagenham

MI5 note for liaison file reporting meeting between H/SDS and F6 to discuss intelligence requests

MI5 note for liaison file reporting meeting between SDS and F6 inc MI5 wanting info on specific individuals thought to be in the SWP, held at SDS offices on 13 May 1981

Report on a member of Kensal Rise SWP who is a UCATT shop steward and has been mediating in a racist site dispute

Report on personal political, physical and employment details of Mick Woods of the Workers Socialist League and Kilburn Labour Party, inc Paddington Times clippings about a St Mary's Hospital disute he was involved in (attached)

Report on personal details of a former SWP member who unsuccessfully applied for a job as a traffic warden

Report on an SWP Shop Stewards School which discussed means of causing industrial disruption, held at Holborn Library WC1 on 10 July 1982

MI5 note for liaison file reporting meeting between DCI Short, DI Barber and MI5, inc discussion of peace movement, sacking a public sector employee SWP member, and request to debrief HN106 after his withdrawal, held at Curzon St House on 8 June 1983

Home Office draft updated Terms of Reference for Special Branches, inc confidential annexes (attached)

Draft of new Terms of Reference for Special Branches, and cover letter to Chief Constables

Home Office Guidelines on the Work of a Special Branch

Report on the talk 'The Real Subversives Today' hosted at the Pathfinder Bookshop by New International Forum