Declassified files reveal decades of surveillance of Aneurin Bevan
Newly released records show that Britain’s domestic intelligence agency monitored the NHS founder for more than 20 years, revealing the extent of Cold War-era suspicion towards a prominent left-wing politician.
In a satirical NHS waiting room, an enormous declassified surveillance file bearing Aneurin Bevan’s portrait occupies an examination couch. A miniature Cold War intelligence official, folded from its archival pages, listens to the portrait through a stethoscope. Nearby, patients wait while a nurse attends to them.
Join the conversation