Identity area
Reference code
OBS/6/1/1/2/6/3/15
Title
Official Secrets Act
Date(s)
- 1985-1989 (Creation)
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File
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1 file
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Scope and content
Donald Trelford's subject file relating to the Official Secrets Act.
Includes leaflers on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms Bill; amendments to Official Secrets Bill; documents produced by The Campaign for Freedom of Information including briefing papers and comment on White Paper; press releases.
Correspondence relating to the Official Secrets Act including letters from Colin Brannigan, Des Wilson, Alfred JaCoby, Richard Holme, Ken Morgan, David Flynn, Malin Foster, Nick Wapshott, Robin Lustig, Adam Raphael, David Newell, Robert Maclennan, John Patten.
Creator: The Observer Limited; Editor's Office; Donald Trelford
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Some material in this series is closed to researchers in line with Data Protection Act
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- Trelford; Donald Gilchrist (1937-2023); journalist, broadcaster, and editor of The Observer (Subject)
- Wilson; Des (1941-); journalist, politician and campaigner (Subject)
- Holme; Richard Gordon (1936-2008); Baron Holme of Cheltenham; businessman, academic and political advisor (Subject)
- Wapshott; Nicholas; journalist (Subject)
- Lustig; Robin Francis; journalist and broadcaster (Subject)
- Raphael; Adam Eliot Geoffrey (1938-); journalist (Subject)
- MacLennan; Robert Adam Ross (1936-); politician (Subject)
- Patten; John Haggitt Charles (1945-); Baron Patten; politician (Subject)
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