List of abbreviations

BBC

British Broadcasting Company

BHL

British Housewives’ League

BLEF

British League for European Freedom

CAPRiM

Corporate Asset Protection and Risk Management

CCF

Congress of Cultural Freedom

CIA

Central Intelligence Agency

CIO

Congress of Industrial Organizations

CLP

constituency Labour Party

CPGB

Communist Party of Great Britain

CSCA

Civil Service Clerical Association

CYL

Communist Youth League

FBI

Federal Bureau of Investigation

FO

Foreign Office

GPO

General Post Office

GRU

Soviet military intelligence

HUAC

House Un-American Activities Committee

ICFTU

International Confederation of Free Trade Unions

ILP

Independent Labour Party

IRD

Information Research Department

IRIS

Industrial Research and Information Services Ltd

JBS

John Birch Society

JIC

Joint Intelligence Committee

KGB

Soviet Committee for State Security

LEL

League of Empire Loyalists

MI5

Security Service, British domestic security service

MI6

Secret Intelligence Service, British foreign intelligence service (SIS)

MP

Member of Parliament

MRA

Moral Rearmament Movement

NATO

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

NAWCS

National Association of Women Civil Servants

NCB

National Coal Board

NEC

National Executive Committee (Labour Party)

NKVD

People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs, interior ministry of the Soviet Union

NUJ

National Union of Journalists

NUM

National Union of Mineworkers

PLP

Parliamentary Labour Party

SIS

Secret Intelligence Service, British foreign intelligence service (MI6)

SOE

Special Operations Executive

TCA

The Consulting Association

TGWU

Transport and General Workers’ Union

TNA

The National Archives

TUC

Trades Union Congress

UK

United Kingdom

UN

United Nations

US

United States of America

VTsSPS

Soviet All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions

WASP

White Anglo-Saxon Protestant

WFTU

World Federation of Trade Unions

WPC

World Peace Council

YCL

Young Communist League