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14 November 2007

10 YEARS OF MI5 AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES

In November 1997, the Security Service began releasing historical files to the National Archives (formerly the Public Record Office) at Kew. Since then, we have released nearly 3,700 records into the public domain. They can be viewed at the National Archives by any member of the public with a National Archives readers’ pass, which can be obtained free of charge.
We are commemorating this anniversary by highlighting some of the files that have been released over the past ten years. They illustrate three of the Security Service’s most notable espionage cases: Carl Hans Lody, a German spy in the First World War who became the first person to be executed in the Tower of London for over a hundred years; Eddie Chapman, alias ZIGZAG, a British double agent in the Second World War who was awarded the Iron Cross by Hitler; and Klaus Fuchs, a German-born nuclear physicist who gave the Soviets the secrets of the atomic bomb.
Their stories are told in our new web pages, “Cases from the National Archives”. The new pages feature copies of original MI5 documents, many of which have never been published before. They include formerly top secret surveillance reports, memos, hand-written accounts and photographs of MI5 operations.

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