William Norman Ewer alias Kenneth Milton

Date: 1950 Reference: KV 2/1017 Creator: Security Service Catalogue context: William Norman EWER, alias Kenneth MILTON: British. EWER, Foreign Editor of the "Daily Herald", was from about 1919 to 1929 a prime mover in a Russian intelligence organisation in London. According to Arthur Francis LAKEY this was initially conducted from a flat acquired by LAKEY on the instructions of KLISHKO of the Russian Trade Delegation, to whom he was introduced, he claimed by EWER, and later through the front organisation, the FEDERATED PRESS OF AMERICA, which EWER set up. Interception of correspondence addressed to the FEDERATED PRESS OF AMERICA showed that EWER, using the name "Kenneth MILTON", was in regular receipt of letters from George SLOCOMBE. These contained information seemingly originating from the French Foreign Office. EWER was in return sending substantial sums of money to SLOCOMBE for payment to sources which were quite separate from SLOCOMBE's overt journalistic activities as Paris correspondent of the "Daily Herald". A similar (albeit lower-key) relationship appeared to exist with ... Categories: Military Subjects: Cold War; Americas; Communism; International; Trade and commerce Topics: British state and citizens; International trade and affairs; Military and war Period: Postwar Copyright information: Copyright clearance for publication is not required, except in the case of documents in third-party copyright. Usage terms: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/information-management/use-of-tna-materials.pdf