Officially Secret

Officially Secret

"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)

Aitkin, Jonathan

Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1971, pp.236, Notes, Index

SR L 108