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Declassified files reveal that despite MI5 monitoring Aneurin Bevan for over two decades due to communist links, his security record was surprisingly uneventful.
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Aneurin Bevan’s personal security file was ‘remarkably tame’ – National Archives
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Some in UK’s security services questioned why Welsh Labour firebrand was of interestAneurin “Nye” Bevan, the Welsh Labour firebrand who spearheaded the creation of the NHS, was monitored by security services for more than two decades, though his personal file was “remarkably tame”, according to official files released to the public.Bevan came to MI5’s attention in the 1930s over concerns about his links with known communists, papers released to the National Archives show. Monitoring continued even after he became a minister in the postwar Labour government that created the NHS. Continue reading...
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