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Arrests have not yet been effected, as the evidence is not complete. They will probably be interrogated under the Official Secrets Act, but it is doubtful whether we shall prosecute. Our Direction-Finding stations thought they had pinned down the illicit wireless station to the Italian Embassy, but this is by no means certain. We are passing reports on to the Ministry of Defence for their comments. The Naval Intelligence Division is getting rather exasperated and is thinking of putting up a full-dress memo urging that steps with or without the cooperation of Eire should be taken to safeguard the Irish coast.

At present, with the exception of sixteen individuals specially selected by us as technicians, all Germans are being allowed to leave. The same applies to British subjects. The Oxford Don took matters into his own hands yesterday and objected on security grounds to the internment of two Germans who had been resident here since 1926. The Home Office got into a flat spin and the decision had to be reversed. 4 September [Deleted] of SIS rang up to say that he thought that they might usefully recruit some agents from our interned suspects before they were sent back to Germany so I arranged with Dick White to look out for any likely cases.

We turned him down for the Ministry of Information and the War Office has for some reason or other assumed that we have refused him a permit. In the meantime the War Minister Leslie Hore-Belisha is fuming and says that in the absence of very special ground the permit must be granted within half an hour. We do not propose to refuse him one as it would obviously be impossible seeing that Jordan is foreign editor. It seems not unlikely however that he will act for Claud Cockburn whose Communist correspondent Goodman was refused a permit the other day.

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