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69 results found for '"Official Secrets Act"' in Keywords.
Disclosure legislation for companies plans (1975)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with Campbell Adamson of the CBI on a new bill requiring disclosure of companies’ future plans to government and trade unions. Concerns over disclosure to trade union officials of confidential...
Harold Evans on Crossman Diaries injunction (1975)
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- Interview
Harold Evans, Editor of the Sunday Times, fights for the rights for publication of the diaries of former Labour minister Richard Crossman, thereby risking prosecution under the Official Secrets Act. Male...
Freedom of Information Committee on abolition of Official Secrets Act (1975)
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- Interview
An unidentified male Freedom of Information Committee spokesman outlines the need for a freedom of information act, based on the American model. The advantages are discussed, as well as the types of...
Jonathan Aitken on Official Secrets Act (1977)
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- Interview
Jonathan Aitken MP on the proposed reform of the Official Secrets Act section 2 and his prosecution and acquittal under the act in 1970. He would like to see it applied to highly sensitive material only....
Colonel B identified (1978)
- Genre
- News report; Parliamentary debate; Speech
The anonymous British intelligence officer and expert witness dubbed "Colonel B" during the ABC Trial (an Official Secrets Act trial) was named by 4 MPs in the House of Commons yesterday as Hugh Johnstone....
Naming of Colonel B (1978)
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- Interview
Interview with Albert Beale, Peace News magazine, about naming of Colonel B, blurted out in the Commons and now front page news in daily papers, a witness in an official secrets case. Peace News had been...
Naming of Colonel B (1978)
- Genre
- News report; Parliamentary debate
Ed Boyle reports on the naming of Colonel B, a witness in an official secrets case, whose name was revealed in the House of Commons and then became front page news. Includes speeches in the Commons by...
Official Secrets Act reform (1978)
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- Interview
Interview with Liberal peer Lord Basil Wigoder about a proposed reform of the Official Secrets Act. The Liberals would like to see criminal law invoked only in certain specific classes of information....
Official Secrets Act reform (1978)
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- Interview
Patricia Hewitt of the National Council for Civil Liberties attacks the Governments proposals for the reform of the Official Secrets Act, which she states will remove to the ability to challenge Government...
Christopher Price on Official Secrets Act trial (1978)
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- Interview
Labour MP Christopher Price on the Official Secrets Act trial, and reacting to the sentencing of Crispin Aubrey, John Berry and Duncan Campbell in the so-called Colonel B case. Male interviewer not identified.