Catalogue description Miscellaneous records preserved by Gilbert Wakefield, employed in MI5 in 1956 to weed...

Miscellaneous records preserved by Gilbert Wakefield, employed in MI5 in 1956 to weed records deemed no longer worth keeping. The files involved were destroyed but some early papers that he considered were of historical interest were preserved, with hand-written notes he made by way of explanation. These include papers on the following: Walter J Stein, Paul Bolo, W Schimmelfeng, L Grunwaldt, Morel de Ville, G Gorob, J Mitzakis, Pierre de Ratchkovsky, J Maximoff, the Czarist anti-nihilist police and the National Socialist Party. Some of these surviving records relate to the period prior to the establishment of MI5 and were reports submitted by William Melville and Herbert Dale Long to Colonel J E Edmonds, Director of Military Operations in the War Office. There is a letter from William le Queux dated November 1914 and a letter from Neville Chamberlain dated 30 March 1915 concerning a plot to blow up the Lusitania at Liverpool.