Rodney Howard Hilton and Gwynneth Joan Hilton

Date: 02-07-1956/14-06-1960 Reference: KV 2/4299 Creator: Security Service Catalogue context: Rodney Howard HILTON and Gwynneth Joan HILTON: British. Rodney Howard HILTON was a member of the Oxford University group of the Communist Party of Great Britain in 1937 and of its National Student Committee in 1938. As a junior army officer in World War II he showed no evidence of communist activity but at the same time maintained contact with the Party HQ and after World War II joined the Party's Historians' Group and its National Cultural Committee. By 1949 he had been selected to train Party cadres and in the mid-1950s was a member of the Advisory Council of 'Marxist Quarterly'. His second wife Gwynneth was also an active communist and a committee member of her branch of the Party. Rodney Howard HILTON resigned from the Party following the 1956 Soviet action in Hungary Categories: Second World War Subjects: Agents, extremists, traitors; Communism; Conflict; Europe and Russia; Operations, battles and campaigns 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