Typed minutes of ‘V’ Committee meeting. The following items are mentioned in the report: a report in newspapers of inquest in Monkstown concerning psychoanalysts noted. O’Riordan has left the country. Note in + McQuaid’s handwriting says “not correct”. Capt. Fleming, Army Intelligence, reported that Roy Johnson, Roger McHugh and Jeffares met daily to compose letters to The Irish Times in reply to Fr. O’Neill. Fr. Kent to speak to Fr. Nolan regarding the Globe Theatre Group which recently staged The Ginger Man Fr. Fehily to ask Fr. O’Connor of the Columban Fathers about the Irish Workers’ League.

Typed report on CPI and KO activities. The main item covered concerns the meeting in Vienna between the Foreign Ministers of the Eastern and Western Powers on disarmament and peace. As Sean Nolan and Sean Murray are in London it is assumed that they are being briefed on changes in Party policy.

Typed report on CPI and KO activities. The following items are mentioned in the report: the Executive meeting of 10 April discussed the “shock treatment” administered by the Soviet leaders on the subject of the late Stalin the impact on the British CP was discussed. Sam Nolan complained of the poor performance of the British CP in the recent General Election, considering their influence in the Trade Unions. At the meeting of 12 April M. O’Riordan spoke on developments arising out of the 20th Congress of the CP in the USSR. He spoke of the peaceful foreign policy of the USSR. Due to these policies the state of international tension, which was fraught with grave danger to world peace, had been replaced by a feeling of security. Nolan referred to the present visit of the Soviet leaders to London their visit to Peking would go far to consolidate the great Socialist masses of the East with their Socialist comrades in the West.

Typed report on CPI and KO activities. The meeting of 28th August demanded that all members secure new members, push the sales of The Irish Workers’ Voice, and the encouragement and expansion of cultural contacts with Soviet-block countries. John Nolan referred to his forthcoming trip to Poland, and Jeffares spoke of his trip to China. Such trips would soon cease to regard the USSR as the terrifying bogey-man. The names of those travelling to China listed.

Typed report, stamped ‘Confidential’, on CPI and KO activities. An article on agriculture in The Irish Workers’ Voice was discussed at the Executive Committee meeting on 2nd October. Its purpose was to focus on the failure of Government policy in that area. Sean Nolan has been promised articles from Fox and Butler regarding the trip to China.

Two copies of a typed report on CPI and KO activities. John Nolan, who had been attending a meeting of the British CP in London, returned home on 5 February. Funeral of Christie Ferguson, National Organiser of the Workers’ Union of Ireland. Talk titled ‘The Expanding Fellowship of Peace’ was given by Herbert Hadley condemning atomic weapons, compulsory military service and power politics. Communist agitation among the Dublin unemployed continued.

Copy of a typed report on the Unemployed Workers’ Committee. The meeting in O’Connell Street on 22 May was attended by about 2,000. Sam Nolan, with clinched fist, demanded that unions call a one-day strike. Tributes were paid to the clergy of the Church of Ireland for their help. The Committee was organizing in every large housing area – Ballyfermot, Cabra, etc. Decided to publish own newspaper. Intend to change the system.

Typescript (3 copies) profiling John Nolan, whole time official in the Communist Party and manager of Book Shop, 16A Pearse Street. He is a most dangerous and active member. 3 items

Reports on the “Week-end Educational Class in Bangor, Co. Down” and by John Nolan on his role as Delegate to the Communist Congress in Moscow.

Letter from Gerard Nolan to Fr. Mangan thanking him for his letter relating to Confessions.