WORLD WAR II > Subjects of Security Service EnquiryKV 2/31811941 Nov 24 - 1958 Nov 27
Brendan Francis BEHAN: Irish. The playwright, BEHAN, first came to the Security Service's notice when he attempted to enter the UK in 1939 with a forged travel permit and was returned to Eire in 1941 after a period of detention under the Explosive Substances Act. In 1942 he was sentenced in Dublin to 14 years' imprisonment for attempted murder