Official secrets act purpose

Title

Official secrets act purpose

Genre

News report

TX Date

Unknown

Year of production

1984

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Duration

00:03:31

Description

Tim Crook? reports on the tenets of Official Secrets Act of 1911, and its current application in relation to the Sarah Tisdall case. Foreign and Commonwealth Office clerical officer Tisdall leaked documents to The Guardian newspaper outlining when American nuclear missiles would be arriving in the UK and has been jailed. Despite recommendations the hastily passed law has still not been reformed

Contributors

Tim Crook?

Keywords

Newspapers; Right to information; Civil servants; Freedom of the press; Espionage; Nuclear weapons; Missiles; Documents; Official Secrets Act; Sarah Tisdall

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