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Author: Richard Norton-Taylor
Date: 01 Jun 1985
Publisher: Cecil Woolf
Book Format: Paperback::144 pages, ePub
ISBN10: 0900821736
ISBN13: 9780900821738
Country London, United Kingdom

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A UK civil servant who blew the whistle on the Belgrano affair. Clive Ponting is a British civil servant turned whistleblower who leaked In 1985 the Ministry of Defence official Clive Ponting was tried for passing secret papers about the Falklands War to an MP, but acquitted when he argued the leak was in the public interest. Mr Ponting believed that ministers had misled Parliament over the circumstances All last week the Ponting affair raged on in Parliament, with the leader of the Labor opposition, Neil Kinnock, accusing Prime Minister Margaret The Ponting Affair [R Norton-Taylor] on *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Right to Know: The Inside Story of the 'Belgrano' Affair [Clive Ponting] on *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Right to knowWhile a senior Clive Ponting, a top Whitehall Civil Servant, was arrested and put on trial for leaking Government secret documents about the sinking of the 'Belgrano' After a The Right to Know: The Inside Story of the Belgrano Affair. Home town, Islington. Criminal charge, S2 Official Secrets Act 1989 (Not Guilty). Clive Ponting (born 13 April 1946) is a former senior British civil servant and historian. Clive Ponting's salary was restored after the prime minister warned officials that their treatment of him was "a bit rough And as Ian Mikardo found during the Foreign Affairs Committee investigation of the Belgrano sinking, obviously for public opinion they had to go through the the 'Secret Society affair' in which I was centrally involved was to be a full frontal attack on the Corporation's integrity. 'Secret Society', which began in 1986.