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NEW SCOTLAND YARD
BROADWAY,

. LONDON, s.w.1.

Yoer reference: QPE 67/1 07/ 1 S.)

Our refenence.

    

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from Mr. H.A. Hetheriigton a

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or 5.8 68, mentioned
. a above, and the subsequent 5 -
on the subject that CLARKE wrote to 3 is
about a2 seioner in June, 1968, expreaeing his fears 11
unusual letter from a person calling himself 5? a

 

 

to work by a man driving a motor vehicle which wae 

a
I: interviewed CLARKE and agenci
.. an ac and report any further 
7 - -. 9 9 Edefeat
14. On 17.10.68,. CLARKE telephoned me at New ?a?ris?ial?i
Scotland Yard and reported that he had been followed a $05,315
9. Ireby i

?subsequently found to be owned by a Mr. Sunderland, meq
employed by Chriatopher ROBERT .Go (Investigation and agile

Security Holdings) Ltd., of 83, Manor Road, Wellington, 353;:
81.1er3" - a private detective agency. On he 9258 T:
was again followed and was able to stop and challenge 9me
the man concerned, who admitted he worked for the . 
Drivi

private detective. agency.'.i: CLARKE told him he wished
to meet his employer at his home, 30A, Clarendon 
at 8pm. that day. Subsequently CLARKE reported
9 this to me by telephone and asked that I should be
present at the meeting. After consultation with
Chief Superintendent Squad, CLARKE was told that
police'could not be present at the proposed meeting
and was advised to have his solicitor there.

 

5. CLARKE reported that the
proposed meeting never took place, but that he was no
longer being followed to work. He expressed hie 
?appreciation of the help given him by police. The
substance'of this series of incidents appeared in
"The Sunday Times" on 5.11.68, but the action or this

depagmentpme at mentioned. nor any individual officer. I

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
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and JAMES REID

DIRECTORS of a well-known
of Lm Private defectives were
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on an of?ce in
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Police Of?cers (Name-Badges)

Mr. Whitaker asked the Secretary of
State for the Home Department whether
he will propose that, in the interests of
relations with the public, those police
of?cers who do not have numbers on
their uniforms shall have name-badges. - 

Elystan Morgan I would refer my
.. 1 hon; Friend to my reply to a Quertion
 ~from my right hon. Friend the Member
forgMiddlesbrough, East (Mr. Bottognley)
?t ,24th March-{VOL 780, c. 219-20.]



 
    
 

 

 

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political

By Alexander Mitchell

IAN WITHERS, head of a South
London pnivate detective agency,
has admitted that his ?rm has
Investigated the activities of
Britain's Anti-Apartheid -Move-
ment, and private lives of 'its
supporters. Agents from his
company were also assigned to
cover London hearings of the
United Nations Special Commit-
tee on Apartheid which sat in
London last July. .

Mr Withers freely admits that
the inquiry was conducted by his
?political department.? -

'Mr Ben Whitaker, Lab-our 

for Hampstead and vice?president
of torraise the
a tt er in. Parliament. Mr
Whitaker, who suspects that the
South African Government may
be Mr, Withers? clients, says he
will ask the Home Secretary, Mr
Callaghan, to? ,inVestigate 'the
,?rm?s ?-employer. It is, very
sinister'that a private detective
should act on behalf of any
foreign government, and parti-
cularly a gOV?ernment such, as
South Africa, which is notorious
for its pelice methods.?

Mr 'Withers admits that his
. agents were to photograph several
A A members: and 1 ?,d1?cover

their and\ details of
their homey, life :7 whether
married, number of children and!
the, me. Last week the? Sunday

    
   
 
    
  
  
  
  

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?how Elisa

um Withers: open confessions

Private in

. apartheid.

receiVeda" iece-of note~ .
,?Tim \TWithers admits, freely that this

Anti-Apartheid 'inves- 

controversy about the proposal to

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main sli

to the

the not .
obscure. Refeefrilneg

held at
note
photos facilities.?
.. But others are clearer. A 
item in the notes says Seregitsh :13
Disaster by John Laurence?4
Gollanze (sic). This refers to a
book called Seeds of Disaster,?
published by Victor Gollancz
which gives details of methods
used in South African Govern-
ment propaganda. . 

This entry is the clue to, an
example of Mr Withers?s agents in
action. John Laurence? is a
pseudonym used by the author-of
Seeds of Disaster, who is a South
African emigre anxiOus to protect
his family from embarrassment;
He now works- in a London
advertising agency.

Some weeks ago he was tele-
phoned at the agency by ?a
Madame Zielinska,? who said
she was a literary agent. She
wished to know if he was the
author of Seeds of Disaster,? if
so, would he write an essay on
for a book to be pub-
. lished in France with a foreword
by Jean-Paul Sartre ?John
Laurence? admitted he was the
author?but heard 'no more from
Madame Zielinska.? 

The notes made by Withers?s
.-ex'-employee make .it clear that
?Zielinska ,_was in fact a
.Wither?s agent. And indeed,

was one, qtyhis investigations.?
Mr Withers?s open confessions
may well bring .to ahead the

 

 

m'ake1a11' private detective and.
security agents registerable' by a
raw; And several believe

LEltat {the activities of inquiry
?agentss..wh\o may begfy?orking, for
{the . 

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