Britain’s MI5 Spied on NHS Founder Bevan, Secret Documents Show

Britain’s MI5 spied on NHS founder Bevan, secret documents show

LONDON, Oct 22 (Reuters) - British spies monitored Nye Bevan, the much lauded architect of the National Health Service, for three decades because of his links to ​the Communist Party and criticism of Britain's government in ‌World War Two, newly releas...

Britain's MI5 spied on NHS founder Bevan, secret documents show

LONDON, Oct 22 - British spies monitored Nye Bevan, the much lauded architect of the National Health Service, for three decades because of his links to the Communist Party and criticism of Britain's government in World War Two, newly released papers show. Read more at straitstimes.com.

MI5 suspected 'father of the NHS' Nye Bevan had Soviet sympathies

He will always be known as the politician who created the NHS - but newly-released MI5 files now shed a different light on the revered Labour minister with his suspected links to the Soviets

MI5 monitored politician behind NHS for two decades, newly-released files show

Aneurin ‘Nye’ Bevan first came to the attention of the security service in the 1930s amid concern about his links with prominent communists