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Left: Museum exhibit. An StB steamer for surreptitious letter opening. Right: MI5 too operated various ‘letter
opening’ desks to monitor communications to and from Soviet Bloc countriesThe magnificent organ at the Church of St. James, Praguecome to the notice of the authorities due to
interference to local television reception from
his transmitter as he sent Morse. However,
that was not the case, van Haarlem never‘Erwin van Haarlem’s’ Dutch passportStella Rimington - MI5’s first female
Director-General. She helped build
the spy case against ‘Erwin van
Haarlem’ and testified in courtHeadquarters of the Transport and General Workers
Union. MI5 intercepted calls to and from this building
in the late 1960s and early 1970s(CPGB) and General Secretary of the powerful
Transport and General Workers Union
(TGWU). Telephone lines at the union’spossessed a transmitter. Van Harlem was
actually denounced and ‘outed’ by a defector
who operated in faraway India.On December 1988, StB officer Vlastimil
Ludvik left the Czechoslovakian Embassy in
Delhi and met with British Intelligence
representatives (MI6) who flew him to Britain
where he claimed political asylum. As is usual
in such cases, the claimant was debriefed and
intelligence flowed. Ludvik passed details on a
Vaclav Jelinek otherwise and also known as
Erwin van Haarlem.UNION STREET AND MIThe StB operation to ensnare Jeremy Corbyn,
political associates and union figures, was
certainly not an isolated one. In the 1960s and
1970s, MI5 counter-intelligence officials had
at least two-dozen UK nationals linked to
union organisations and high-profile politicians
under surveillance. And though the Security
Service may be reticent to discuss such
operations, they were very real indeed. One
high profile figure was Jack Jones, a member
of the Communist Party of Great Britain© THE INSIDER’S GUIDE TO 500 SPY SITES IN LONDON