TOP SECRET sure exactly what the Committee wished to be covered. They had already given much thought to this and the main difficulty which emerg was that a general announcement might lead to an embarrassing influx of refugees who would not qualify to be dealt with as defectors. The Home Secretary was willing to grant political asylum only where a foreigner arriving in the United Kingdom was faced with the alternative of return to a country where he would be liable to political victimisation. It did not extend to those who had already succeeded in entering a country of refuge.
- Collection ID
- CAB159
- Conflict
- Cold War
- Countries
- Austria Germany Sweden United Kingdom
- Document Reference
- CAB 159/14/24
- Document Types
- Summary
- File Reference
- CAB 159/14
- Identifier
- 10.1080/swwf.cab159.0014.024
- Keywords
- Defectors Propaganda Soviet Army Soviet Air Force Soviet Navy Intelligence Gathering Soviet Satellite States Interrogation Intelligence Reports Intelligence Requirements Communications Broadcast Services Intelligence Channels Communications Interception Anglo-american Relations American Intelligence Services Information Sharing Security Intelligence Services Responsibilities Accommodation
- Languages
- English
- Organizations
- Chiefs of Staff Foreign Office Information Research Department Joint Intelligence Bureau Ministry of Defence Secret Intelligence Service Security Service Joint Intelligence Sub-Committee
- Pages
- 7
- Persons Discussed
- Eric Jones John Sinclair
- Published in
- United Kingdom
- Themes
- Intelligence Operations Surveillance
