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Security: MT letter to Ted Leadbitter (Commodore Dieter Gerhardt and British operations in the South Atlantic) [trial in South Africa for Soviet espionage: "no basis whatever for your surmises that Gerhardt in some way compromised our operations"] [declassified Jan 2014]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: PREM19/1384 f2
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Importance ranking: Minor
Word count: 8pp
Themes: Labour Party & socialism, Parliament, British relations with the Soviet Union, British policy towards South Africa, Foreign policy (USSR & successor states), Foreign policy (Americas excluding USA), Defence (Falklands), Security services & intelligence