Jack Lindsay and MI5
More than Surveillance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8892346 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Helen Lindsay (0000-0001-8614-1661, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Publication date | 2015-11-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Australian Literary Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0004-9697 • E-ISSN: 1837-6479 |
| Publisher | Australian Literary Studies (PUBLISHER • AU) |
| DOI | 10.20314/als.5cb50ca395 |
| OpenAlex | W2573947360 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
In December 2012, together with Dr Anne Cranny-Francis, I visited the National Archives at Kew Gardens in London to view the MI5 ï¬ les relating to my father, Jack Lindsay. His ï¬ les had been released in 2009 and I had been curious about them for some time. Motivated by a desire to shed light on this aspect of his life, I arranged the trip to the archive. Anne and I collected the ï¬ rst few ï¬ les and took them to our table and for the ï¬ rst few minutes as we thumbed through the papers I found it difï¬ cult to make sense of what we were seeing. There were papers that listed phone calls, copies of forms and reports, interspersed by letters in Jackâ s distinctive hand-writing and typescript. It was disorienting and peculiar to see letters written by Jack next to intelligence reports about him, together with accounts from informants on his activities. Surely this was the stuff of espionage and spy ï¬ ction; why collect all this information on Jack? He wasnâ t a spy â or was he
Archaeology · Art · Art history · Cult · Espionage · Political science · Sociology · TypeScript · Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research · History · Law
| Citations per year | 0.17 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |