A file of miscellaneous Security Service (MI5) correspondence, mostly relating to the circulation of classified documents. The file also includes a detailed report on the ‘Red Orchestra’, a Soviet intelligence network that operated in Western Europe before and during the Second World War. The report outlines the structure of the network, including diagrams of its organisation, lists key members, and summarises its activities and history, from its pre-war origins to the eventual capture and execution of many of the members by the Germans. The file also contains documents discussing the disappearance of an airliner believed to have flown to Yugoslavia, and a request from the Israeli government for the release of a terrorist in prison in Britain.
- Collection ID
- FO1093
- Conflict
- Cold War
- Countries
- Australia Austria Belgium Burma China Czechoslovakia Denmark England Eritrea Ethiopia Finland France Germany Holland India Iraq Israel Italy Liechtenstein Netherlands Norway Palestine Persia Poland Romania Russia Scotland Siam Singapore Soviet Union Spain Sweden Switzerland United Kingdom United States of America Yugoslavia
- Document Reference
- FO 1093/391/2
- Document Types
- Report
- File Reference
- FO 1093/391
- Identifier
- 10.1080/swwf.fo1093.0391.002
- Keywords
- Soviet Intelligence Services Espionage Counter-espionage Intelligence Gathering Wireless Communications Intelligence Distribution Information Sharing
- Languages
- English
- Organizations
- Abwehr Chiefs of Staff Foreign Office Geheime Staatspolizei Secret Intelligence Service Security Service Sicherheitsdienst Permanent Under-Secretary's Department
- Pages
- 98
- Persons Discussed
- Aubrey Halford Dick White
- Published in
- United Kingdom
- Themes
- Surveillance Intelligence Organization
