Word: secretse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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No matter how worrisome the Snepp case may be to U.S. public servants who break promises to keep secrets, they do not have to contend with anything like the Official Secrets Act in Canada or Britain, where it is a crime to disclose any government document without permission. These laws...
The most bizarre one concerns Alexander Peter Treu, 56, a German-born Canadian and former Luftwaffe pilot who heads Canalatin Consultants, a Montreal electronics firm. In the late 1960's and early '70's, he worked on the design of communications and surveillance systems that were built...
While Treu was being secretly tried this spring, the Canadian government used the Official Secrets Act for the first time against a newspaper, prosecuting the Toronto Sun for disclosing a top-secret Mountie report on Soviet espionage. Critics complain that the Sun, a persistent right-wing gadfly to the Trudeau...
The Colonel B affair underlines the curious history of the Official Secrets Act, which dates from 1896 in Britain and 1939 in Canada. Although, as one former British Attorney General put it, The Act can make it a crime "to report the number of cups of tea consumed per week...
Britain's Labor government last month released a White Paper proposing a streamlined Official Secrets Act. But civil libertarians fear that under the reforms, official prosecutions will go up, not down. "The new act," says a Civil Liberties Advocate, "will convert an inaccurate blunderbuss into a highly accurate rifle...