The Document Database presents all documents released by the UCPI, plus a Library of background material - the latest documents first.
The Inquiry documents can be filtered by date, tranche, spycop, group and more, and searched by keyword. For ease of navigation they are in three separate databases:
Disclosure is where you will find all files released by the Inquiry as part of its investigations. This includes the contemporaneous reports of spycops, managerial correspondence and notes of meetings with MI5.
Statements and Transcripts has all witness statements, and opening and closing statements, as well as the transcripts of the hearings.
Procedural includes all documents from the start of the Inquiry in 2015 until the hearings began in 2020.
The Library is a collection of background material to the spycops scandal - essentially relevant reading sourced outside the Inquiry, including the various early reviews.
The filtering fields follow the material: date, author, type, originator/publisher.
Report on the main hearing at the 'International Tribunal on Britain's Presence in Ireland' of the case against the British Government, held at Conway Hall on 7-8 July 1979, inc agenda and indictment (attached)
Report on meeting of Clapton SWP inc summary of recent Rank and File Conference and plans for demo in Hackeny against cuts, held at Trades and Labour Club, Dalston Lane E8 on 25 July 1979
Minutes of informal conference of Special Branch and MI5, held at 70 Grosvenor Street on 17 Aug 1979, inc cover letter for copy sent to Cmdr John Wilson (SB)
Letter from Hayden Phillips (Home Office) to DAC Bryan on whether to update guidance for Special Branches and more detailed info on them, inc draft public document (not attached)
Report on a street paper sale and leafleting for Save Our Hospitals by SE London District SWP, held in High Street, Lewisham on 25 Aug 1979, inc Save Our Hospitals leaflet (attached)
Report listing participants (7 pages, almost entirely redacted) in a demo commemorating 10 years of British troops in Ireland organised by the National League of Young Liberals, held at Speakers Corner on 12 Aug 1979
Report on District Committee meeting of NW London SWP inc member accused of setting fire to chairs and a garden fence at an SWP fundraising party, held at redacted private home on 28 Aug 1979
Report on meeting of co-ordinating committee for 'Stop the Cuts' demo, held at Trades and Labour Club, Dalston Lane E8 on 28 Aug 1979, inc 2 leaflets (attached)
MI5 Minute Sheet concerning SDS of 11th World Congress of the Fourth International with requests for provision of specific info about the International Marxist Group or other Brits attending, and any resolutions on certain specific issues
MI5 Minute Sheet on a list of points to be raised at upcoming meeting with SDS focusing on the Revolutionary Communist Party, inc requests for identification from photos
