The Civil Liberties Of the Zircon Affair

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The Civil Liberties Of the Zircon Affair
libdoc April=1994

Author(s): Thornton, Peter
Publisher: National Council for Civil Liberties 1987, 23pp
Keywords: Police Policing Zircon Censorship BBC Official Secrets
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Contents:

Introduction

The Sequence Of Events
1985
Summer 1986
Late 1986
January 1987
The first police raids
The police raid on the BBC
The aftermath of the BBC raid

:Was Zircon a Secret?

:The Civil Liberty Implications
The threat to press freedom
The role of the police
Accountability to parliament
The Official Secrets Act and a Freedom of Information Act

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