推动建立国民医疗服务体系（NHS）的激进派人物奈·贝文，曾被安全机关监控长达二十多年，尽管他的个人档案“异常平淡”，根据向公众公开的官方档案显示。
firebrand who spearheaded the creation of the NHS, was monitored by security services for more than two decades, though his personal file was "remarkably tame", according to official files released to the public.
根据向国家档案馆移交的文件显示，贝文早在20世纪30年代就引起了军情五处（MI5）的注意，原因是担心他与已知共产党人有联系。即使战后他成为创建国民医疗服务体系的工党政府的一名部长，监控仍在继续。
Bevan came to MI5's attention in the 1930s over concerns about his links with known communists, papers released to the National Archives show. Monitoring continued even after he became a minister in the postwar Labour government that created the NHS.
档案显示，一度因他与一名已知的俄罗斯间谍有联系，时任军情五处局长曾找首相克莱门特·艾德礼提出警告。
At one point, his links to a known Russian spy led to the then director general of approaching prime minister Clement Attlee to warn him.
然而，档案也显示，安全机关内部有人质疑为何贝文会成为关注对象。虽然档案中没有任何迹象表明军情五处曾窃听他的电话或截获他的邮件，但一名官员在1943年写道：“我认为贝文的活动并非我们安全机关应当介入的事项。
However, the papers show, some in the security services questioned why Bevan was of interest. Although there is nothing in the files to indicate that MI5 ever tapped his phone or intercepted his mail, one officer wrote in 1943: "I do not think that Bevan's activities are a matter in which we, the Security Service, should be involved.
“事实上，他在下议院经常发表完全相同的言论，任何一份《汉萨德》（议会会议记录）都能证明，因此根本无法采取任何实质性行动。”
"In fact he makes exactly the same remarks in the Houses of Parliament pretty frequently, as any copy of Hansard will show, and it would not therefore be possible to do anything positive."
在他1960年去世后，另一名军情五处官员在复查档案时指出：“考虑到奈·贝文是个多么有争议的人物，这份档案异常平淡。”
Reviewing the file after his death in 1960, another MI5 officer noted: "Considering what a controversial character Nye Bevan was, the file is remarkably tame."
军情五处于1933年首次为南威尔士埃布韦尔选区的工党后座议员贝文建立个人档案。一份记录描述他“继承了威尔士祖先的传教狂热，并懂得如何将其用于共产主义事业。”档案还记录他曾与英国共产党总书记哈里·波利特及党内其他人士“保持密切联系”，这些人支持他组织“工人自由小组”以抵御“资本家”的计划。
MI5 first opened a personal file on the backbench Labour MP for Ebbw Vale in South Wales in 1933. He was described in one entry to have "inherited the evangelical fervour of his Welsh forebears and knows how to use it in the communist cause." He was also noted to have been "in close touch" with Harry Pollitt, general secretary of the Communist party of Great Britain, and others in the party who backed his plan to organise "workers' freedom groups" to defend against "capitalists".
贝文与他的共产主义盟友闹翻了，这些盟友曾抱怨他不关心工人团结，一心想建立“自己的运动”。但到1936年，双方已和解，贝文支持共产党申请加入工党。
Bevan fell out with his communist allies who had complained he was not interested in workers' unity and was intent on building "a movement of his own". But by 1936 they had reconciled, with Bevan supporting an application by the Communist party to affiliate with the Labour party.
1949年，MI5开始担心贝文与威尔弗雷德·麦卡特尼的友谊。麦卡特尼于1928年因间谍罪被定罪，罪名是为俄罗斯从事间谍活动。
In 1949, MI5 became concerned about Bevan's friendship with Wilfred Macartney, who had been convicted of spying for Russia in 1928.
麦卡特尼谈话的录音显示，他似乎正在将贝文获得的信息传递给波利特。这促使总干事珀西·西利托爵士接近阿特利，阿特利将麦卡特尼的说法斥为“谎言的集合”，但同意“警告”贝文注意麦卡特尼。该档案最终于1975年关闭，距贝文去世已15年。
Recordings of Macartney's conversations suggested he was passing on information obtained by Bevan to Pollitt. It led the director general Sir Percy Sillitoe to approach Attlee, who dismissed Macartney's claims as a "tissue of lies" but agreed to "warn" Bevan about Macartney. The file was finally closed in 1975, 15 years after Bevan died.
其他新公开的文件显示，MI5担心共产党人可能试图破坏乔治六世的加冕典礼，共产党活动人士在1937年威斯敏斯特教堂典礼前受到密切监视。
Other newly released papers show MI5 feared communists could attempt to disrupt the coronation of King George VI, with Communist party activists closely watched before the Westminster Abbey ceremony in 1937.
尽管该党准备开展宣传攻势，并印制了一百万份反君主制传单，计划在加冕周分发，但党员被警告不要激怒绝大多数亲王室的公众。
While the party prepared a propaganda drive and printed a million anti-monarchist leaflets to be distributed during coronation week, members were warned to avoid antagonising a largely pro-royalist public.
一份1937年4月的MI5报告指出，曼彻斯特的一名“同志”因提议举行一系列示威活动而受到“严厉斥责”，因为这将“给法西斯分子和警察送上机会”。报告指出，成员们这样做将“逆流而上”，必须小心措辞，以免让邻居反感。根据档案，著名的英国作曲家、20世纪重要人物、著名和平主义者迈克尔·蒂普特爵士也因被怀疑是托洛茨基主义革命者而受到MI5监控。
One MI5 report from April 1937 noted that a "comrade" in Manchester had been "severely censured" for proposing a series of demonstrations as it would be "playing into the hands of the fascists and police". "It has been pointed out that members will be 'going against the stream' in doing this and they must be careful to speak in such a way that they do not make themselves unpopular with their neighbours." Sir Michael Tippett, a leading British composer of the 20th century and a famed pacifist, was also monitored by MI5 as a suspected Trotskyist revolutionary, according to the files.
MI5认为，他在20世纪30年代先后加入了共产党和托洛茨基主义者，并一直是活跃的支持者，直到第二次世界大战结束。
MI5 believed he joined first the Communist party and then the Trotskyists in the 1930s, and remained an active supporter until the end of the second world war.
然而，这些文件表明，他作为革命者并不令人信服。在一封被截获的给伦敦共产党组织者的信中，他抱怨说，要将自己作为共产党人的工作与在萨里郡农村担任音乐教师的生活结合起来很困难。他抱怨说，晚上的承诺使他“完全不可能”出席伦敦的“细胞”会议。
The files suggest, however, he was unconvincing as a revolutionary. In one intercepted letter to a Communist party organiser in London, he complained of the difficulties of trying to combine his work as a communist with his life as a music teacher living in rural Surrey. His evening commitments meant that it was "quite impossible" for him to attend "cell" meetings in London, he complained.
一份1955年的报告指出，蒂普特“未曾因共产主义或托洛茨基主义事务而引起关注”。
A report from 1955 noted that Tippett "has not come to notice in connection with communist or Trotskyist affairs".
然而，他的激进过去意味着，直到1959年，他仍被阻止担任外交部资助的在德国的讲师职位，直到20世纪60年代，MI5才愿意给他出具健康证明。1966年，他因对音乐的贡献被封为爵士。他于1998年去世，享年93岁。
However, his radical past meant that as late as 1959 he was blocked from taking up a Foreign Office-sponsored lectureship in Germany, and it was only in the 1960s that MI5 were prepared to give him a clean bill of health. In 1966, he was knighted for services to music. He died in 1998 aged 93.