Saturday, 6 April 2013

"I" brief, "YOU" leak, "THEY" are prosecuted under the Official Secrets Act


"How civil servant risked jail in plot to save train service"

Link to Wales Online

"A civil servant in Whitehall was almost jailed in the 1970s for saving Aberystwyth’s train service and many others targeted for a wave of Beeching-style closures, it has been revealed.

"The Director of Public Prosecutions ordered police to track down the Whitehall mole who leaked a top-secret report on shrinking the rail network.

"The story only now be told after the civil servant responsible, Llandudno resident Reg Dawson, died last year."

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