Catalogue description Thomas George HARLEY: British / Nadezhda Nikolayevna HARLEY, aliases MEADE, BOLDIN,...

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Reference: KV 2/3782
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Thomas George HARLEY: British / Nadezhda Nikolayevna HARLEY, aliases MEADE, BOLDIN, THOMASOVNA: Russian, American, British. A member of the Young Communist League from the early 1930s, in 1931 Thomas HARLEY travelled to Russia to work as a bricklayer and the following year married Nadezhda THOMASOVNA. In 1933 he was expelled from the country, but returned there and from 1936 worked for Radio Moscow until in 1946 he returned to the UK with his wife and son, then aged 14. The apparent ease of the family's departure from the Soviet Union led to suspicion that he had accepted an intelligence brief

Date: 1930 Mar 12 - 1948 Nov 16
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: PF 42102 VOL 1
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Access conditions: Retained Until 2014
Record opening date: 28 February 2014

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