Typed copy of a report on Mr. Aiken’s speeches. One suspects that these two speeches were inspired by Communists. Mr. Aiken cannot be suspected of being a Communist, but is very anti-American. His chief advisors are Mr. Woods (who writes for The Irish Times), Mr. Conor Cruise O’Brien and Miss McEntee. Woods and Cruise O’Brien have strong left views. Miss McEntee is a close friend of Professor David Green of Trinity. Steps should be taken to stop Irish foreign policy becoming an instrument of Communist propaganda.

Conor Cruise O’Brien

/1. 6 July1944 Typed letter to +McQuaid from Conor A. Maguire, Chairman, The Irish Red Cross Society. The Society, with the approval of the Government, have promised to care for

Typed report (possibly from Chief Superintendent Philip MacMahon, item 669?). The following items are mentioned in the report: nothing to indicate that known Communists attend ‘The Runaway House’, Ballsbridge Denis Cahalane is now Co-Auditor of the Student Christian Movement a few members of staff at TCD are believed to have paid off the debt of ‘Nusight’ no trace of a person named Cogan in South Anne Street enquiries failed to establish that nude parties take place in any house in Kilternan Myra, a Finnish national working as a beauty specialist in Brown Thomas, has been identified as Marie Anneli Havukarnen. Nothing to indicate that she is connected to a German spy ring Rudi Deusche is a German Communist agitator. Stayed with Conor Cruise-O’Brien while recuperating from a gunshot wounds.

Short typed biography on the family of Dr. Conor Cruise O’Brien. Has two children, two of whom are at school in Newtown, Waterford, and two in Rathgar. Neither school is Catholic. Children are not being taught formal religion as they are allowed to make up their own minds when they come to age. Wife is living in Howth.