March 2002
Recent Releases at the Public Record Office
PRO
reference
Date
Description
AB 16/708
1947
AN 191/1
1960-64 Records created or inherited by the British
Transport Commission, the British Railways Board,
and related bodies: R H Lascelles (Assistant
Secretary, British Railways Board) papers.
This file is about plans for the Channel Tunnel
CAB 17/201
1919
CAB 150/59
1965-67 Appointment of Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC)
representative in Canberra
CAB 159/50
1952-55 Records of the Cabinet Office: Joint Intelligence
Sub-Committee later Committee: Minutes (JIC
Series): Various miscellaneous confidential annexes
which were previously missing from earlier volumes
1952 Aug 01- 1955 Dec 31
DO 35/7545
1955
Records of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy
Authority and its predecessors: Future Defence
Research Policy
Records of the Cabinet Office: Staff file of Rt Hon
Field Marshall J C Smuts (formerly Lieutenant
General) 1919 Jan 10 - 1919 Jul 21.
Correspondence with General Smuts following his
resignation in 1919 from the War Cabinet
Records created or inherited by the Dominions
Office, and of the Commonwealth Relations and
Foreign and Commonwealth Offices: Federal
government meetings; minutes and papers 1955-58.
Minutes of meetings held between the Rhodesian
Federal Government and the three territorial
Governments Includes issues such as wage differences
for African and European workers, creation of a film
censorship board, internal and external security and
reorganisation of the legislative system and electoral
franchise for Africans
FCO 33/1461 1971
Records of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office
and its predecessors: Reports of civil unrest and
resultant deaths in Northern Ireland
FCO 33/1462 1971
Riots and demonstrations in Northern Ireland
FCO 33/1465 1971
Stability of government in Northern Ireland, including the
issue of Internment
FCO 33/1468 1971
Cooperation between Northern Ireland and Republic of
Ireland concerning control of explosives and firearms
FCO 33/1470 1971
Briefs concerning Northern Ireland for meetings of InterParliamentary Union and Inter-Parliamentary Council
FCO 33/1471 1971
Foreign reactions towards Internment in Northern Ireland
FCO 33/1479 1971
Meetings between Prime Minister of UK, Edward Heath,
and members if Stormont Parliament of Northern Ireland
FCO 33/1480 1971
Meetings between Ministers of State for Foreign and
Commonwealth Affairs and Ulster Unionist MPs in
London
FCO 33/1483 1971
Incidents on border of Northern Ireland and Republic of
Ireland
FCO 33/1492 1971
Allegations of ill-treatment of detainees by defence
forces in Northern Ireland
FCO 33/1494 1971
Attempts by the Irish Republican Army to obtain arms
from Czechoslovakia
FO 248/1612
1965
Records created and inherited by the Foreign Office:
Arms smuggling in the Persian Gulf
Correspondence in 1965 between the Foreign Office,
the British Embassies in Iran and Bahrain about cooperation between Britain and Iran to prevent arms
smuggling in the Persian Gulf.
FO
371/122246
1965
Annual Report for 1955 by Wing Commander Farmer,
HM Air Attaché in Copenhagen
FO
371/29627
1941
Recruitment of Finnish nationals in Canada and the
United States 1941
Correspondence on issues surrounding the Soviet Union
including a discussion on the merits of a controversial
proposal to raise a force of Finnish "ski troops" made up
of Finish nationals from USA and Canada as Finland
had attacked the USSR
FO 1042/230
1963
Records created and inherited by the Foreign Office:
Embassy, Bonn, West Germany: General
Correspondence: Censorship lists: 1963 Jan 011963 Dec 31
This 1963 file from the British Embassy in Bonn refers to
controversy which arose over the alleged abuse by the
Federal Office for the Prevention of the Constitution
(BVF) of the Allies' rights to monitor telephones and
examine mail.
FO 1042/233
1963
This 1963 file from the British Embassy in Bonn refers to
controversy which arose over the alleged abuse by the
Federal Office for the Prevention of the Constitution
(BVF) of the Allies' rights to monitor telephones and
examine mail.
FO 1116/39
1968
Records created and inherited by the Foreign Office:
NATO security and espionage leaks 1968 Jan 01 1969 Dec 31
In 1968 the NATO Financial Controller, who was
Turkish, was arrested by the Belgian security authority
on suspicion of espionage activities. This file assesses
the damage caused by that incident and by other
incidents the following year and discusses the tightening
of NATO's security procedures
FO 1116/40
1968
In 1968 the NATO Financial Controller, who was
Turkish, was arrested by the Belgian security authority
on suspicion of espionage activities. This file assesses
the damage caused by that incident and by other
incidents the following year and discusses the tightening
of NATO's security procedures
J 84/646
1970-71 Records of the Supreme Court of Judicature and
related courts: McCartney, James Paul v Lennon,
John Winston Ono, Harrison, George Starkey,
Richard and Apple Corps Ltd.
In 1970 Paul McCartney brought a case against the
three other members of the Beatles and their company,
Apple Corps Ltd. He claimed that the Beatles should be
dissolved as a partnership, citing that their appointment
of Allen Klein as the group's manager was in breach of
the terms of the Beatles' partnership deed. These files
contain the transcripts of the High Court proceedings
PREM
13/3563
1965-70 Records of the Prime Minister's Office: Monuments
to Sir Winston Churchill: waiving of "ten-year rule";
Houses of Parliament; Parliament Square.
Correspondence about proposals to erect memorial
statues of Sir Winston Churchill in the lobby of the
House of Commons and in Parliament Square.
Discussion of waiving the "ten year rule" which prevents
statues in the Palace of Westminster within 10 years of
the persons death
WO
169/24890
1944
Records created or inherited by the War Office,
Armed Forces, Judge Advocate General, and related
bodies: No 37; outstation intelligence channels 1942
May - 1944 Nov.
Correspondence about British double agents in WW2,
including a plan to send a spy to Turkey to bring back to
Iraq a German wireless transmitter to be used by the
British for communication with the enemy
Document Reference: FCO 33/1483
This file from 1971 relates to Incidents on the border of Northern Ireland and
the Republic of Ireland. These photographs were taken following an incident
in which an Irish Garda (police) car was fired on.
Document Reference: PREM 13/3563
This Prime Minister’s Office file contains correspondence, following the death
of Sir Winston Churchill in 1965, about proposals to erect memorial statues of
him in the lobby of the House of Commons and in Parliament Square. There
is discussion about waiving the “ten year rule” which prevents statues in the
Palace of Westminster within 10 years of the person’s death. Included in the
file is a letter from Lady Lloyd George, widow of David Lloyd George, about
the size and positioning of the statues of the two former Prime Ministers.