§ Mr. A. Lewisasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will publish in HANSARD a list of persons who, since October 1951, have been convicted of espionage offences, their crime, sentence, and the positions they held at the time of their convictions.
§ Mr. BrookeThe Official Secrets Acts do not refer in terms to an offence of espionage. Section 1(1,c) of the Official Secrets Act, 1911, provides that an offence is committed by any person who obtains, collects, records or publishes, or communicates to any other person, any secret official code word, or pass word, or any sketch, plan, model, article, or note, or other document or information which is calculated to be or might be or is in- 171W tended to be directly or indirectly useful to an enemy. Since 1st October, 1951, the following eleven persons have been
Name Total sentence of imprisonment Position held William Marshall … … … 5 years Wireless Operator, Foreign Office. John Clarence … … … 5 years Clerk, Territorial Army. Bryan Frederick Linney … … 14 years Electrical engineer employed by commercial firm. Anthony Maynard Wraight … … 3 years Former R.A.F. Officer. Gordon Arnold Lonsdale … … 25 years Company director. Peter John Kroger … … … 20 years Bookseller. Helen Joyce Kroger … … … 20 years Housewife. Henry Frederick Houghton … … 15 years Civil servant. Ethel Elizabeth Gee … … … 15 years Civil servant. George Blake … … … … 42 years Civil servant. William John Christopher Vassall … 18 years Civil servant. I am informed that during the same period the following two members of
Name Total sentence of imprisonment Position held Corporal J. Edwards … … … 8 years Army N.C.O. Corporal J. M. Wood … … 12 years Army N.C.O.