Police Snooped On Striking Dockers From the Lavatory ; National Archives

Birmingham Post › September 04, 2007

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Spies monitoring communist activity at Chatham dockyard in the 1930s and 1940s would have appreciated the help of James Bond's gadget expert Q, it would seem.

Lacking the sophisticated technology later developed for intelligence purposes, a Kent policeman was forced to hide in a toilet to gather information, according to the MI5 records.

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Police Snooped On Striking Dockers From the Lavatory ; National Archives

Pc Ivan Smith used the covert spot to overhear proceedings at a meeting of dockyard apprentices discussing strike action ...

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