June 2001
Recent Releases at the Public Record Office
PRO reference Date
AB 54/50
Description
Records of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy
1968-70 Authority and its predecessors European Nuclear
Energy Agency: sea dump 1967 and 1969 operations
FCO 9/1126
1970
Records of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and
predecessors: Talks and negotiations between Spain
and United Kingdom about Gibraltar
FCO 12/79
1970-71
Requests from foreign governments for the release of
UK official records
FCO 14/757
1969-70
Report on the second Faye enquiry on the review of
the circumstances of the Munich air crash 1958
FCO 14/788
1970
Hijacking of British Honduras Cessna to Cuba, 5 March
FCO 44/378
1970
Disposal of nerve gas by the USA off the coast of the
Bahamas
FCO 44/379
1970
Disposal of nerve gas by the USA off the coast of the
Bahamas
FCO 49/296
1970
British long term policy towards India
FCO 61/665
1970
Reports of illicit traffic in narcotics throughout world
FCO 61/676
1970
Human rights in Northern Ireland
FCO 63/379
1970
Black Power in the Caribbean
FCO 63/380
1970
Black Power in the Caribbean
FCO 63/603
1970
Armed forces' mutiny in Trinidad and Tobago
FCO 66/228
1970
Views of the USA on chemical and biological warfare
FO 371/29697
1941
Records created and inherited by the Foreign Office
S.O.2 (Special Operations) activities in Sweden
HW 34/2
Records created and inherited by Government
Communications Headquarters: RSS(I) Note: The
1939-45 Funkabwehr. This is an account of the German
monitoring organisation, including a comparison with
RSS, its British counterpart, dated February 1946.
HW 34/3
R.S.S Traffic Report Number 43, 17th to 30th
December 1942. R.S.S. Service Reports 10 March
1943 to 1 August 1944 and 8 February to 4 April 1945.
1942-45 The series began as Fortnightly Traffic [interception]
Reports, but from February 1943 became 'monthly
indexes of W/T [wireless telegraphy] Services [links]
covered and their location'
HW 34/19
1944
MEPO 2/10659 -
Captured enemy agents, sets and equipment: Radio
Security Service supervision of Allied usage of radio
communications, mainly within the United Kingdom.
Records of the Metropolitan Police Office: Offences
against the State: Roger Casement, executed for high
treason 3 August 1916: Manuscript index to Casement
papers
Activities of Casement in years preceding his arrest:
includes Bartholomew's map of Limerick and Shannon
MEPO 2/10660 1914-20
and official 1912 report on treatment of natives in
Putomayo, Columbia
MEPO 2/10661 1914-15
Enquiries to trace Casement, and reports on his
movements
Attempts by Casement and others to form an Irish
MEPO 2/10662 1915-19 Brigade from Irish prisoners of war in Germany to fight
for the independence of Ireland
MEPO 2/10663 1915-16
Correspondence of individuals connected with
Casement
MEPO 2/10664 1916
Sinn Fein activities: enquiries and press publicity
MEPO 2/10665 1916-20
Casement's involvement in German attempts to
smuggle arms into Ireland for use by rebels
MEPO 2/10666 1916
Trial, conviction and execution: press publicity
MEPO 2/10667 1916-19
Trial: statements by witnesses; arrangements for
witnesses during and after the trial
Daniel Julien BAILEY, arrested with Casement and
MEPO 2/10668 1916-18 charged with high treason, but no evidence offered:
enquiries and antecedents
MEPO 2/10669 1916-21
Enquiries to trace Robert MONTIETH, associate of
Casement, wanted for high treason
MEPO 2/10670 1916
Domestic affairs of Casement whilst in custody
MEPO 2/10671 1916-17
Payment of police expenses incurred by the trial and
arrest
MEPO 2/10672 1916
Correspondence on Casement's diaries: typed copy of
1911 cash register
Miscellaneous correspondence: Dr McHUGH, Irish
MEPO 2/10673 1916-17 nationalists; German press extract on British Secret
Service; German maps owned by Casment
MEPO 2/10674 1916
WORK
30/6466
Press cuttings relating to Easter rising in Ireland and to
Casement's trial
Records of the successive works departments, and of
c. 1655the Ancient Monuments Boards and Inspectorate
60
Panoramic pen and ink drawing of Hampton Court
New Document Releases
Extracts from Metropolitan Police documents relating to Sir Roger
Casement
Document Reference: MEPO 2/10666
Letter sent to the Chief of Police by anonymous 'Irish and German Americans'
threatening that if Casement was condemned to die, the British Ambassador
in Washington would be shot within 48 hours.
Document Reference: MEPO 2/10666
Metropolitan Police telegram sent on 3rd August 1916 confirming Casement's
execution earlier that morning.
Document Reference: MEPO 2/10668
Verses addressed to Casement on the eve of his trial and sent to him at
Brixton jail.
Document Reference: MEPO 2/10672
Letter from Mr Gaselee, Foreign Office Librarian, to New Scotland Yard
asking whether they still have the 'original diary'. Mr Gaselee is told that 'while
everything pointed to the Diary being here... it has probably been put away
carefully and it could not at present be found.'
Document Reference: MEPO 2/10673
Extract from an article on the British secret service published in the German
press, asserting that Casement's arrest shows 'the excellent organisation of
the British political secret service.'
Document Reference: MEPO 2/10672
Metropolitan Police's Prisoner's Property Voucher describing 'property in the
possession of the police in relation to the case of Roger Casement.'