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1. On 23rd November, 1955, the Prime Minister i q of Commons that a Conference of Privy Councilfors had been set up with the . following terms of reference :— “ . : services and to consider wh and should be taken.” |: J The Conference consisted of the following Privy Councillors The Secretary of State for the Home Department; ; a The Lord Jowit; , . ~The right hon. Member for Lewisham, South (Mr. H. Morrison); - The right hon. Member for Vauxhall (Mr. G. R. Strauss); 0.” The Permanent Secretary to Her Majesty's ‘Treasury. | fyge er any further precautions are called for tions have been considered by Her Majesty's ernment. . =~ steps which could be made public as a result of the Conference, there would, of course, be a report to Parliament. The Report of the Conference includes a close examination of the security procedures in the public services, and it would not be in the public interest to publish the full text of the Report for to make known all its recommendations. But in compliance with the undertaking given by the Prime Minister, this White Paper gives the substance of the Report in so far as it can properly be made public, including a sumber .. Of specific recommendations. 7 oat ok we 4. The re; Starts by an analysis of the I nature of the ity. cisks with which ‘thes country is faced to-day” The Conference point Ow foreign Powers carried out by professional agents, to-day the chief risks are presented by Communists and by other persons who for one reason overrides a man’s normal loyalties to his country and induces the belief ~ that it is justifiable to hand over secret information to the Communist extends to sympathisers with Communism.- - 2 5. At one time the Fascist ideology also presented considerable security risks. Although to-day the chief risk is that presented by Communism, the socurity arrangements instituted in 1948 were directed, and will continue to be directed, against Communism Fascism alike. In this paper for convenience and brevity the term “Communism” “is used to cover Communism and Fascism alike. wet te . 6. One of the chief problems of security to-day is thus to identify the members of the British Communist Party. to be informed of its activities and to identify that wider of those who are both sympathetic to Communism, or susceptible to munist pressure and present a danger 2. The Conference have presented their R and their recommenda. * 3. The Prime Minister stated on 29th November last that if there were | that, whereas once the main risk to be guarded against was espionage by or another are subject to Communist influence. The Communist faith’ .. Party or to the Communist foreign Power. This risk from Communists _ is not. however. confined to party members. either open or underground, but “To examine the security procedures now applied In‘ the public -