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Officially Secret

01 January 1991

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Officially Secret
libdoc March=1992

Author: Aitkin, Jonathan
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1971, pp.236, Notes, Index

Keywords: OSAs, Law, History, Official Secrecy

"Early in 1971 Jonathan Aitkin stood in the dock of the Old
Bailey
accused of offences under the Official Secrets Act
1911...Although
much of this book is a narrative account of an historical legal
struggle, Officially Secret is more than a contemporary
chronicle.
Aitkin devotes six chapters to the history of the Official
Secrets
Act up to 1970 and shows that his case was the inevitable
collision
between the growing pressures by the civil service for greater
secrecy and the public right to know." (Publishers text)

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