英国国家档案馆近期解密的文件揭示，威尔士工党领袖Aneurin Bevan因与共产党人士的关联，在20多年间遭MI5安全部门监视1。尽管Bevan在战后工党政府中担任部长并主导创建了国家卫生服务体系（NHS），但这种监视活动仍然持续进行1。
Bevan的个人档案始于1933年，当时他还是后勤工党议员1。MI5在1930年代因其与共产主义者的联系而将他列入监视范围1。1949年，MI5主管Sir Percy Sillitoe因Bevan与因间谍罪被判刑的Wilfred Macartney的友谊向首相Attlee提出警告1。Attlee随后将Macartney的相关指控驳为"谎言的集合"，但同意对Bevan进行"警告"1。
档案显示，安全部门内部对监视的必要性存有疑问。一名MI5官员在1943年就表示"我认为Bevan的活动不应该是安全部门应该参与的事项"1。这份档案最终于1975年关闭，距Bevan于1960年去世已有15年1。事后审查该档案的一名MI5官员评论称，"考虑到Nye Bevan是个多么有争议的人物，这个档案相当温和"1。
The British National Archives have recently released documents showing that Aneurin Bevan, the Welsh Labour leader, was monitored by MI5 security officials for over two decades due to his associations with communist figures, despite the contents of his personal file being described as "remarkably tame."1 Bevan's MI5 file was opened in 1933 after he became a backbench Labour MP, with surveillance beginning in the 1930s prompted by his connections to known communists.1 The monitoring persisted even after he became a postwar Labour government minister and oversaw the creation of the NHS.1
MI5 raised concerns about Bevan's friendship with Wilfred Macartney, who had been convicted on espionage charges, prompting MI5 chief Sir Percy Sillitoe to alert Prime Minister Clement Attlee in 1949.1 Attlee dismissed Macartney's allegations as "a farrago of lies" but nonetheless agreed to "warn" Bevan about the matter.1 However, internal security service assessments questioned the necessity of the surveillance, with one MI5 official writing in 1943 that "I do not consider that Bevan's activities should be a matter with which this Department should concern itself."1 The file was eventually closed in 1975, fifteen years after Bevan's death in 1960.1 An MI5 officer reviewing the archive after Bevan's passing commented that "considering what a controversial figure Nye Bevan was, this file is remarkably tame."1
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