Official Secrets: The Use And Abuse Of The Act by David Hooper

David Hooper examines the leading cases brought to trial decade by decade against such people as Compton Mackenzie, the two Oxford undergraduates who first exposed the activities of GCHO in the 1950s, Jonathan Aitken, Sarah Tisdall (not the first Foreign Office clerk to be prosecuted) and Clive Ponting. He describes a host of less well-known cases, the majority of which should not have been brought or were brought for the wrong reasons against the wrong person. He deals with the interesting failure to prosecute Cabinet Ministers for breaches of the Official Secrets Act: J. H. Thomas who leaked the Budget details twice, and Richard Crossman who left his papers in Prunier's Restaurant. This 1987 Secker & Warburg Hardback is in good condition. Heavy; DJ. First page cut out.

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Location: Politics