Home Intelligence Unit
<p>Home Intelligence was the subject of recurrent political controversies. The best known example occurred in July 1940 when information about the previously secret Wartime Social Survey was obtained by the editor of the <em><a class="mw-redirect" title="Daily Herald (UK newspaper)" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_Herald_(UK_newspaper)">Daily Herald</a></em>. The paper began a fierce campaign against the use of "gestapo techniques", and coined the epithet "Cooper's Snoopers" (after <a title="Duff Cooper" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duff_Cooper">Duff Cooper</a>, the Minister of Information).<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_intelligence#cite_note-10">[10]</a></sup></p>
<h2>Post-war[<a title="Edit section: Post-war" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Home_intelligence&action=edit&section=5">edit</a>]</h2>
<p>Home Intelligence was gradually wound down after 27 December 1944 and was officially abolished on 31 August 1945. However the Wartime Social Survey was maintained and its functions are now part of the <a title="Office for National Statistics" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_for_National_Statistics">Office for National Statistics</a>.</p>
<p>Wartime Survey information fed into Home Intelligence</p>