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4 September 2006 releases: Communists and suspected Communists
A number of Security Service files released to the National Archives (new window) on 4 September 2006 concerned communists and suspected communists. The following pages present some of the highlights.
- Engelbert Broda
A leading Austrian scientist and refugee from Nazi persecution who was suspected of being a Communist - Frederick Copeman
A former Royal Navy sailor who was a leader of the 1931 Invergordon Mutiny and led the British Battalion in the Spanish Civil War - Sylvia Townsend-Warner and Valentine Ackland
Writers and partners who offered to help the British Communist Party in the 1930s - The British International Brigade Association
The organisation for veterans of the British Battalion of the International Brigade, which campaigned for their welfare and against the Franco regime in Spain
