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Security: Clive Whitmore minute to MT ("Report by the Security Commission") [review of public service security procedures and practices launched in wake of spy allegations against MI5 Director General: handling of report's findings, including Government's need to avow existence of SIS] [released Dec 2014]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: PREM19/1634 f202
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Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 36pp
Themes: Media, Executive, Parliament, British relations with the Soviet Union, Foreign policy (USSR & successor states), Defence (general), Security services & intelligence