National Union of Students
The National Union of Students (NUS) is a confederation of 600 students' unions, amounting to more than 95 per cent of all higher and further education unions in the UK.[1]
History
Cold War
According to Stephen Dorril, British official investigations into the 1946 International Student Congress in Prague led to inquiries into the management of the NUS.[2]
Although the NUS was a founder member of the International Union of Students, it later broke with it in favour of the rival International Student Conference supported by the American National Student Association, and covertly backed by the CIA and MI6.[3]
In the mid-1950s, MI6's London station under Peter Lunn recruited numerous NUS students visiting Communist countries, or in contact with Communist groups, to provide informal intelligence.[4]
People
Notable Past Presidents
- Stanley Jenkins
- John M. Thompson
- Fred Jarvis
- Frank Copplestone
- Dennis Grennan
- Gwyn Morgan 1960-62
- Aneurin Rhys Hughes 1962-64
- T. William Savage 1964-66[5]
- Geoffrey Martin
- Jack Straw
- Charles Clarke
- Sue Slipman
- Trevor Phillips
- David Aaronovitch
- Phil Woolas
- Stephen Twigg
- Lorna Fitzsimons
- Jim Murphy
External resources
- Political Careers of NUS Presidents, 1969-present, complicity.co.uk, 27 October 2013.
Notes
- ↑ What we do, National Union of Students, accessed 15 April 2013.
- ↑ Stephen Dorril, MI6: Inside the Covert World of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service, Fourth Estate Limited, 2000, p.46.
- ↑ Stephen Dorril, MI6: Inside the Covert World of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service, Fourth Estate Limited, 2000, pp.471-472.
- ↑ Stephen Dorril, MI6: Inside the Covert World of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service, Fourth Estate Limited, 2000, pp.472.
- ↑ Stephen Dorril, MI6: Inside the Covert World of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service, Fourth Estate Limited, 2000, pp.474.
