Container List
Imperial Policy Group
1934-1942
Scope and Content Note
Minutes of National Citizens' Union, and later Imperial Policy Group, committees and sub-committees with related reports and
correspondence and other papers.
Reel 1, Box 1, Folder 1-2
Minutes of the National Citizens Union Policy Committee (which was reconstituted in October 1934 as the Imperial Policy Group)
and of the Imperial Policy Group Executive Committee and sub-committees on: Empire; foreign policy; House of Lords reform;
organization of propaganda; shipping; taxation; and unemployment,
1934-1942
Reel 1, Box 1, Folder 3
Report of Foreign Affairs Mission on Central Europe with a covering letter to Sir Robert Vansittart,
1936
Scope and Content Note
(photocopy)
Reel 1, Box 1, Folder 4
Miscellaneous correspondence and other papers found in 1 above,
1937-1983
Correspondence,
1936-1983
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence of Kenneth De Courcy, arranged alphabetically by correspondent
Reel 1, Box 1, Folder 5
Belchem, General David,
1978-1981
Scope and Content Note
Subjects include: British military strategy and preparedness; USSR strategy
Reel 1, Box 1, Folder 6
Butler, R. A.,
1956-1961
Scope and Content Note
Subjects include: British domestic politics; Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland; Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery; Near
East; Rhodesia (Zimbabwe); Trade Union leaders' private talks with Conservative Party leaders; USSR foreign policy
Reel 1, Box 1, Folder 7
Douglas-Home, sir Alec (Lord Home)
1975-(1983?)
Scope and Content Note
Subjects include: East-West relations; Near East; Rhodesia (Zimbabwe)
Reel 1, Box 1, Folder 8
Eden, Sir Anthony,
1951-1952
Scope and Content Note
Subjects include: possibility of recruiting opposition leaders to the Conservative Government (Clement Davies and Walter Citrine
are named); Persia (Iran)
Reel 1, Box 1, Folder 9
Fisher, Nigel
1974-1983
Scope and Content Note
Subjects include: Afghanistan; British defense policy; British domestic politics; Near East; Poland; Rhodesia (Zimbabwe);
South Africa; USSR. Also contains correspondence from Colonel R. Butler, "Chief of Staff" to General Walter Walker. (See also
box 2 folder 6)
Reel 1, Box 1, Folder 10
Foreign Office, Great Britain,
1951
Scope and Content Note
Concerns Roy De Groot, former circulation agent for
Intelligence Digest in the USA
Reel 1, Box 1, Folder 11
Hankey, Lord Maurice,
1955-1962
Scope and Content Note
Subjects include: Conservative Party leadership; Eastern Mediterranean; Near East
Reel 1, Box 1, Folder 12
Hogg, Quintin, (Lord Hailsham),
1956-1962
Scope and Content Note
Subjects include: Central African Federation; Conservative Party leadership; John F. Kennedy, President of the USA; Near
East; Trade Union leaders' private talks with the Conservative Party leaders; USSR foreign policy
Reel 1, Box 1, Folder 13-14
Inskip, Sir Thomas (Lord Caldecote),
1936-1943
Scope and Content Note
Subjects include: Czechoslovakia crisis, 1938; France, preparedness for war in late 1930s; Great Britain preparedness for
war in late 1930s; Imperial Policy Group overseas propaganda; Kenneth De Courcy's complaints about M.I.5 interference with
his mail and telephone; Kenneth De Courcy's attempts to become a conservative party candidate; Kenneth De Courcy's attempts
to obtain exemption from "directed employment" under war-time regulations, World War, 1939-1945, possibility of a negotiated
peace; World War, 1939-1945, Norway campaign
Reel 2, Box 2, Folder 1
Lennox-Boyd, Alan,
1956-1958
Scope and Content Note
Subjects include: Central African Federation; conservative Party leadership; Suez crisis
Reel 2, Box 2, Folder 2
Londonderry, Lord and Lady,
1940-1941
Scope and Content Note
Concerning war-time foreign policy and strategy, particularly in respect of air-power
Reel 2, Box 2, Folder 3
Londonderry, Lord and Lady,
1946-1953
Scope and Content Note
Subjects include: Conservative Party organization and finance; evangelism as an anti-dote to socialism
Reel 2, Box 2, Folder 4
Salisbury, Lord,
1951-1952
Scope and Content Note
Concerns infiltration of the Civil Service in Great Britain by Soviet sympathizers
Reel 2, Box 2, Folder 5
Vansittart, Lord Robert,
1951-1953
Scope and Content Note
Concerns infiltration of the Civil Service in Great Britain by Soviet sympathizers
Reel 2, Box 2, Folder 6
Walker, General Walter, and Burnand, P.,
1973-1976
Scope and Content Note
Subjects include: Civil Assistance, an organization founded by General Walter to oppose subversion; attempts by the Ministry
of Defense to restrict General Walter in the expression of his views on defense policy
Reel 2, Box 2, Folder 7
War Office, Great Britain,
1946
Scope and Content Note
Concerns Kenneth De Courcy's complaints regarding obstruction of his activities as a publicist
Reel 2, Box 2, Folder 8
War Office, Great Britain,
1951
Scope and Content Note
Concerns Kenneth De Courcy's complaints regarding harassment of
Intelligence Digest by M.I.5
Reel 2, Box 2, Folder 9
Windsor, Duke of (King Edward VIII) and Duchess of (Mrs. Simpson),
1946-1987
Scope and Content Note
Subjects include: abdication crisis; British domestic politics; British foreign policy; relations between the Duke of Windsor
and his brother King George VI
Correspondence of F. Roy Cattell,
1953-1957
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence of Rev. F. Roy Cattell, Secretary of the Evangelical Alliance
Reel 2, Box 2, Folder 10-11
Correspondence of F. Roy Cattell as Secretary of the Evangelical Alliance,
1953-1957.
Scope and Content Note
Subjects include: Billy Graham's 1954 and 1955 British "Crusades"; politically accented reporting of the "Crusades" in Kenneth
De Courcy's publications; suspected Communist sympathies of a member of the Evangelical Alliance committee
Subject File,
(1936?)-1984
Scope and Content Note
Notes, Correspondence, memoranda, reports and memoirs, arranged alphabetically by subject.
Reel 2, Box 2, Folder 12
Abuse of administrative power by civil and military authorities of Great Britain, complained of by Kenneth De Courcy's,
1946-1984
Scope and Content Note
Correspondents include Lord Vansittart and Sir Anthony Eden
Reel 3, Box 2, Folder 16
De Courcy, Michael,
1950-1984
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence and other papers re Michael De Courcy and alleged attempts by M.I.5 to penetrate
Intelligence Digest through him
Reel 3, Box 3, Folder 1
France, foreign relations and military preparedness in 1938,
(1983?)
Reel 3, Box 3, Folder 2
Prison memoirs of Kenneth De Courcy relating to Wormwood Scrubs Prison, London, Great Britain,
(1968?)
Scope and Content Note
Contains reference to the escape of George Blake
Reel 3, Box 3, Folder 3
Subversive activities of Soviet sympathizers in the Civil Service of Great Britain,
1947-1983
Reel 3, Box 3, Folder 4
Windsor, Duke of (King Edward VIII),
Scope and Content Note
aides-memoirs written by Kenneth De Courcy, dated 1936-1949 and apparently re-copied later
Reel 3, Box 3, Folder 5
Windsor, Duke of (King Edward VIII), copies of correspondence and various notes
1946-1949,
1979-(1983?)
Reel 3, Box 3, Folder 6
Windsor, Duke of (King Edward VIII), correspondence and other papers,
1978-1982
Scope and Content Note
Concerns allegations that the Duke considered committing treason by becoming a party to peace negotiations with Nazi Germany
Reel 3, Box 3, Folder 7
World Politics,
1938-1940,
Scope and Content Note
Concerns many aspects of European and Near Eastern affairs including: Czechoslovakia crisis, 1938; Russo-German relations;
World War, 1939-1945, Norway campaign; World War, 1939-1945, possibility of a negotiated pace. Correspondents include: General
Brecard (France); H. A. Butler; Sir Eric Geddes; M. Leger (France); H. Lemery (France)
Reel 3, Box 3, Folder 8
World Politics,
1938-1940
Scope and Content Note
Consists almost entirely of copies of items in Folder 7 above, also contains a detailed report on the equipment and strength
of the USSR Air Force, 1939
Reel 3, Box 3, Folder 9
World Politics,
1939
Scope and Content Note
Intelligence reports concerning the foreign policy and military capacity of Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland
and Sweden, prepared by Alastair Campbell on the basis of interviews, written materials, and travel in the countries named
Reel 4, Box 3, Folder 10
World War, 1939-1945,
Scope and Content Note
diplomatic history, possibility of a negotiated peace, 1939-1940
Trial and Appeals,
1946-1984
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, memoranda, affidavits, company stock applications, contracts, powers of attorney, trust deeds, and related
papers concerning Kenneth De Courcy's 1963-1964 trial and conviction and subsequent attempts to appeal against the conviction
and to obtain publicity in respect of the case, also concerning property transitions in Canada and Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), arranged
chronologically
Reel 4, Box 3, Folder 11
1946-1963
Scope and Content Note
Subversive activities of Soviet sympathizers in Great Britain, Kenneth De Courcy's opposition to subversion, and the circumstance
of Kenneth De Courcy's trial
Reel 4, Box 3, Folder 12-13
1956-(1983?)
Scope and Content Note
Trial counts 8 and 9: forgery in the form of issuing ante-dated documents. Other subjects include: Nassau anti-Communist conference
organized by Kenneth De Courcy, 1962; proposed
Art Digest and
Bankers' Digest magazines; Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) property dealings
Reel 4, Box 4, Folder 1-2
1957-1972
Scope and Content Note
Trial count 4: falsification of Overseas Land Purchasing Trust records. Other subjects include: Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), politics
and business, Salisbury, Rhodesia (Harare, Zimbabwe), housing construction
Reel 4, Box 4, Folder 3
1957-(1983?)
Scope and Content Note
Trial counts 4 and 13: forgery. Other subject include Salisbury, Rhodesia (Harare, Zimbabwe) housing construction (1 of 2)
Reel 5, Box 4, Folder 4
1957-(1983?)
Scope and Content Note
Trial counts 4 and 13: forgery. Other subject include Salisbury, Rhodesia (Harare, Zimbabwe) housing construction (2 of 2)
Reel 5, Box 4, Folder 5-6
1958-1966
Scope and Content Note
Stock application in respect of Sarsden Consolidated Properties Ltd. Of Toronto, Canada with related papers
Reel 5, Box 5, Folder 1-2
1958-(1983?)
Scope and Content Note
Kenneth De Courcy's campaign to prove the complicity of the Police in a conspiracy to obtain a conviction against him, particularly
by means of concealing documentary evidence. Other subjects include Sarsden Consolidated Properties of Toronto, Canada
Reel 5, Box 5, Folder 3
1959-1972
Scope and Content Note
Trial count 3: (improper relations between Overseas Land Purchasing Trust and Sarsden Properties Ltd.?)
Reel 5, Box 5, Folder 4
1960
Scope and Content Note
Fraud involving Dollar Land Holdings Ltd.
Reel 5, Box 5, Folder 5
1960-1971
Scope and Content Note
Trial Count 9: forgery in the form of issuing ante-dating documents, concerns complex relations between Dollar Land Holdings
ltd.; Overseas Land Purchasing Trust, Reserved Property Trust, Peter Von Dumreicher and Kenneth De Courcy
Reel 6, Box 5, Folder 6
1960-1972
Scope and Content Note
Trial counts 13, 14, and 16: perjury and contempt of court, concerns control of New Townships Ltd.
Reel 6, Box 5, Folder 7
1960-1984
Scope and Content Note
Forgery in the form of issuing ante-dated documents in respect of the Reserved Property Trust
Reel 6, Box 5, Folder 8
1964-1981
Scope and Content Note
Kenneth De Courcy's attempts to appeal against conviction and to obtain publicity in respect of his case
Reel 6, Box 5, Folder 9
1978-1983
Scope and Content Note
Evidence submitted to the Royal Commission on Criminal Procedure by Kenneth De Courcy
Reel 6, Box 5, Folder 10
1983
Scope and Content Note
Questions submitted to Kenneth De Courcy by the Archivist of the Hoover Instituion on War, Revolution, and Peace with the
former's replies
Reel 6, Box 5, Folder 11
1984
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Reel 6, Box 5, Folder 12
1984
Scope and Content Note
Memorandum by Kenneth De Courcy
Speeches and Writings,
1983-1984
Scope and Content Note
Printed copies of a news-sheet and a booklet by Kenneth De Courcy
Reel 7, Box 5, Folder 13
Special Office Brief, nos. 237-247,
1983-1984
Reel 7, Box 5, Folder 14
A Watcher on the Threshold (Kenneth De Courcy?)
The Carolingian Crown of France Kilbrittain Newspapers Ltd., Dublin, Ireland
1984
Reel 7, Box 5, Folder 15
Increment, October 1984
Scope and Content Note
Two letters to De Courcy
Increment, May 1985
1980-1984
Reel 7, Box 6, Folder 1
Typewritten transcript of an interview of K. H. De Courcy conducted by Charles Palm,
1983
Access Information
CLOSED UNTIL THE YEAR 2015
Reel 7, Box 6, Folder 2
Letters from John Straker to Sir Carl Aarvold, David Parsons, Nicholas Ridley, Margaret Thatcher, Sir Michael Havers,
1980-1984
Scope and Content Note
relating to the trial of K. H. De Courcy
Reel 7, Box 6, Folder 3
Increment, July 1986
1985-1986
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence between John Straker and the Lord Chancellor's Department, 1985-1986, relating to the trail; the Lord Chancellor's
speech of welcome to the American Bar Association in Westminster on July 15, 1985; and a clipping relating to Lord Halisham,
1985
Reel 7, Box 6, Folder 4
Increment, September 1986
1981,
1986
Scope and Content Note
Carbon copy of John Straker's letter to the Private Secretary to the Lord Chancellor, dated 19 July 1986; and the 31 May 1986
issue of
News of the World containing an article on the Jeremy Thorpe scandal
Reel 7, Box 6, Folder 5
Increment, December 1987
1987
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, 1987, relating to the Duke of Windsor and to various aspects of British politics and society
Reel 7, Box 6, Folder 6
Increment, June, 1991
1991
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence and writings, 1991, relating to Kenneth De Courcy's trial in 1963-1964
