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| q \ | t- | { | 1 ~- * ¢ PREVENTIVE POLICY ¢ report begins with an analysis of the neral nature of the security risks fecing ritain. The conference point out that hereas once the main risk to be guarded jeainst was espionage by foreign Powers carried out by professional agents, to-day the chief risks are presented by Communists | ‘a ‘The Communist faith overrides a man's normal loyalties to his country and induces the belief that it is justifiable to hand ove secret information 10 the Communist Perty || cedures. For this reason the-conference appyove tribunal (commonly known as Tce Advisers") set up in 1948 10 hear appeals from Civil servants threatened on security grounds with transfer from secret duties or dismissal from the service. This machinery should continue and the conference also recomm: terms Fetch eat hee nts ‘and by other persons who for one reason or }| Should be widened, to enable them to present y ist i a fuller report to the responsible Minister. other are subject to Communist influence. | ® ec rding to the White Paper the measures necessary to carry out these recommenda: | tions will involve alterations in existing pro- These alterations will be notified | that the terms ‘or to the Communist foreign Power,” tie, |} to the staff associations concerned nd an White Pay OMNES. ¢ . ine of tbe chief problems of security to-day, says the report, is to ideotify the |{ ‘9 full. members of the British Communist Party, to be informed of its activities, and to || identify that wider body of those who are tympaibetic to Communism or susceptible to Communist pressure and present a danger to. securi : Thereafter, steps must be taken to see that secret information is not handled by any- one who, for ideological or other motives, amay betray it. The Government agree with this broad analysis and will continue to base their. policy of preventing people of this mature from having access to secret | gnformation. . The report deals with the public. services enerally. But it is implicit in the re; hat the conference recognize that in certaij reas of the public service—notably in t Foreign Service, the defence field, and the Atome Energy Authority—the need for Precautions is greater than elsewhere. The jovernment accept this view. ‘The conference recognize that some of the measures which the State is driven to take to protect its security are in some res; out delay. that_ power traditional and would rought before the and the con! opportunity given for representation to made before the alterations are promulga et ‘The time required to collect evidence upo which a charge can be based is often lon erence dismiss any suggestion should be sought to detain sons for an unlimited period without pre-, Ferring charges against them. They say that this would run counter to untry’s this ‘col inciples of individual freedom ‘most unlikely to be approved by Parliament in time of peace - . - CONTRACT WORKERS =: ACCESS TO TRIBUNAL. - FAVOURED a “They also come to the conclusion that ‘would permit errest and i ing pref align to our tadidional practioes. Thus, in | £0" 8 short specified period ol, sy, 14 days, order not to imperil sources of information, decisions have sometimes to be taken without rygalae fall “dete of the ‘supporting RIGHT OF ‘APPEAL : ' APPROVAL OF 1948 ~ Again, it is sometimes necessary to refuse ‘Proced| could not be relied upon to preveni a inited Kingdom citizen in connivance with A a foreign Power from leaving the country. ‘The conference reviewed the security of secret Governmenrtontracts involving persons outside Government em- ployment. They have considered whether persons subject to ibese ‘be given the right of considered by the “Three Ad ‘The conference jures for cedures should ving their case Pann Tee that this is a> Tho employ a man on secret duties, or to refuse | gitirali matier, but are an favour, if suitable {ao employ him at all if, after the follest investigation, doubts about his reliability semain, even although nothing may bave been i ndards which . wld 3 ‘The conference regretfully that th “Arrangemen| ‘Sinough they fe- || place are in respects, curity of the State is to be ensured. But ey recognize that it is also important to vince public opinion that the measures - ken and the procedures in force will not exercised woreasonably. ° sm. eo . zo arrangements can be made, of socess being. siven to the same tribunal in certain cases. that in the first instance this mater should be discussed with National Joint Ivisory 3s for such discussion to take ° being-made, 2p Jt ‘on Security, Office (Cmd. ‘The chairmai Kilmuir, the Lord Ch other members. i President of the ‘Connel, Sere icorge, Home Secretary, Lord Herbert Morti . Sir Bdward Bridges, Perm the Treasury, ° Permanent Sec The conference point out that while an Education, individual can be arrested on susp’ he is about to attempt to convey sect information to a foreign Power, he must be &¢ bi courts on a charge with- ’ ‘The White Paper, Statement on the Find: sof the Conference of Privy Councillol is published by ion 15 published by the Statione in of the conference was Lor ernment in, 1948, Labour. Sir William a ral secretary of the Union of fice Workers, was late i ie foaal member’ ater appointed an agdi. Council, Major jeorge Strauss, and iges, Permaneni Secretary to ‘The tibunal, known as the sers,” was ‘established by the Labour Tis first three mem- .