weapons in them. Idea: "Watch out for dabs on the tin-opener.
which serves all sections (10).
Seem to be lot of Welsh-speaking fuzz in here. One booking train ticket to Cardiff. Celtic fringe probably much expanded since investiture hassle.
B in addition to holiday rota etc., current samples of some of more obscure political leaflets of undesirable nature.
swing doors, to duty room (D). More political posters and leaflets on walls here.
you recognise this man?' new kind of secret weapon... He makes his excuses and leaves.
DWARF Seventh floor: at the eastern end dwarf comes across photographic department At the other end (at last!) of same floor is 'D' squad of Special Branch (11).
Top floor of Victoria St block is all Special Branch (12). Here, dwarf discovers, are "A' 'B' and 'C' squads. In open office at western end sees lots of plain-clothes cops (A on diagram). About 15-20 desks. Some women, but otherwise all types: proletarian London bobby, provincial and upper middle-class - different colour collar from shirt sort. Dwarf says to himself: Outside you would never think some of these were fuzz. In this room they are all detective constables and sergeants. They talk of "The Party' and industrial disputes. Also: troublesome teachers and tenants' associations. Our dwarf gets the impression that all these obscure little tenants' associations are unanimously considered irksome in the extreme. Impossible to keep track of all of them. SB man's secret dream: the Communist Party controlling all Left organisations. Would be far simpler that way to keep track. On noticeboard (B), Along either side of corridor are offices for ranks above sergeant (C). Dwarf notices these all kept firmly Chubb locked. He wanders past signing-on-book, by Also photos of one or two Black Power leaders. Most interesting pic: a guy with a white crash-helmet in his hand who is smashing windows of fuzz bus. Caption: "Do SB seems to spend most time checking on people taking out naturalisation papers: obsessively thorough. Though often inefficient (vide Dr Laurence of Purley cock-up recently) SB are definitely obsessively thorough. Lot of time also taken up, dwarf notices, by ordinary citizens who send in newspaper pics of demos (usually from Express or Telegraph) saying "This man is my next-door neighbour or (pic of, Tarig Ali) "This man works in my local curry restaurant.' Often nuts, often malicious, but most have to be checked on, our dwarf discovers to his amazement.
At eastern end of top floor finds Special Branch library (E). Mainly not criminal files but information got as result of surveillance, he guesses. Old files (cardboard) are labelled but new ones are all coded. Musty files on Hunger Marches, the Fenians, the Casement case, IRA. Equally musty custodians look after these (probably ex-cop or ex-army). One intriguing old file on 'ex-inspector Symes.' Notices another, uncompleted, file marked 'Pulley' - curious, thinks our dwarf, perhaps this is some ] 'square backlash is on the way. For some. time now the middle classes have been watching in horror the way the young develop their struggle for identity: and they haven't liked it one little bit. Now. got you, be warned, they know who you are and exactly what you're up to. In a week which has produced rumblings from the belly of the White House, effect that Dickie and Spiro WOLL the students restrained, three remarkable pieces of information have come into the Dwarf offices... the first from the 'Shilling Paper in Cambridge; the second from Old Mole of Harvard, the third from our reporters in Sussex University.
The Shilling Paper's article tells of a letter sent by the War Office in London to about a score of undergraduates in Cambridge. We reprint this letter here.
The War Office spider follows up this intriguing invitation to its potential fly, moving to a kill with a rendezvous in Room 055 of its Whitehall offices.
Here dic [wo men. one heavy and unobtrusive, the other being Strickland himself, front man for the MI5 and witness in several spy trials. Strickland doesn't labour the point. Theyneed, he says, a report from time to time' on the political actions and attitudes of some undergraduates and occasionally, a full report in reply to a specific enquiry - nothing like a full-time job is involved.
As it turned out, Mr. Strickland and his "heavy' whom they sent the letter above. Maybe they could tell that he was liable to blow the beans to the Shilling Paper. In any case they shrugged him off with Whitehall aplomb. But he could easily have joined the hundreds or thousands (who knows?) of agents and spies required by the state to police our free academic communities.
Of course, this news comes as no surprise. It confirms the social analysis which points to a necessary identification of interests between the universities and all other institutions of bourgeois power. Such analysis is peculiarly relevant to American affairs; and it was the discovery of CIA files on the Harvard campus which led to Old Mole printing this equation on one of their pages:
HARVARD = CIA = STATE DEPARTMENT=MURDERERS=FORD FOUNDATION=PENTAGON The secret CIA files made available to Old Mole revealed connections of various Harvard | have not been destroyed.
MAY DAY 1969. military, the Atomic Energy Commission, and the State Department. Moreover, the Deans of Harvard are shown to have approved contracts and affiliations with the CIA: Amongst the documents seized and reprinted was a memo on a CIA contract with Prof. Ivan Sutherland and a letter from Prof. Arthur Smithies to Dean Ford saying that Professor had maintained contact with the CIA during ten years. A telegram to Dean Ford, from the Director of the vietnam Working Group of the state Department, thanked Harvard tot making Professor Kissinger available for his extremety successful mission to Vietnam'. Prof. Kissinger is now Nixon's special advisor for national security attairs.
Another document gave official description of MIT's Centre for International Studies and showed: 1) that it was set up to penetrate the Iron Curtain with ideas at the request of the civilian wing of the government. 2) that 'much of the initiative tor the of the Centre came from members of the Harvard faculty. 3) that one of its advisory boards included Allen Dulles, head of the CIA.
Should you be sitting in Exeter or York, didn't like the look of the man to making bombs and feeling secure, take notice, the University of Sussex in Brighton has been sympathies and actions of some of its students. discovered keeping files UTE the political The authorities let it slip that they had these files during the course of a minor disciplinary case involving a militant student. The proctors described student as hard-core internationalist'. They knew that he had been in Paris for the May Revolution and that he had attended demonstrations in Essex university.
A meeting of the Student Disciplinary Council on April 23 deplored the keeping of such records, and demanded both that the files be made open for inspection and that they be burnt. The university replied by admitting that they had records for the politics of eight undergraduates: they claimed that their clerical error. seemed full of. contrition, promising that it would never happen again. The fact remains that the files Photo: Andrew Morland CONSTRUCTION WORKERS