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Catalogue description Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Information Research Department: Registered Files (DA Series)
| Reference: | FCO 162 |
|---|---|
| Title: | Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Information Research Department: Registered Files (DA Series) |
| Description: |
This series includes files of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's Information Research Department regarding political and economic intelligence. This includes files concerning political figures and leaders between 1944-1950, Gestapo collaborators, resistance sabotage operations and copies of town street plans within Belgium, France, Greece and Italy. Other subjects covered include economic resources, propaganda, communist factions, espionage, reconnaissance, resistance groups, sabotage, troop numbers (German and Italian) and BBC radio broadcast audiences and reactions |
| Date: | 1878-1957 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Former reference in its original department: | DA Series |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English, French and Greek |
| Creator: |
Foreign Office, Information Research Department, 1948-1968 Foreign Office, Research Department, 1943-1946 |
| Physical description: | 1164 file(s) |
| Access conditions: | Open unless otherwise stated |
| Immediate source of acquisition: |
In 2020 Foreign and Commonwealth Office |
| Custodial history: | These files were originally Foreign Office papers but were subsequently maintained by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (and latterly the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office) in its non-departmental file series. Where they could not be added to an accruing CO, DO or FO series, files of this type have been treated as FCO records on transfer to The National Archives. |
| Accruals: | No further accruals are expected. |
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