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Former Chief Constable says Special Branch guidelines imprecise

01 January 1991

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Former Chief Constable says Special Branch guidelines imprecise
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Former Devon and Cornwall Chief Constable John Alderson said
yesterday in evidence to the Commons Home Affairs select
committee on the Special Branch that recent guidelines failed
to give a precise and useful definition of subversive activity.

Guardian 85/01/17 p5; Telegraph p19

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