The Papers of Julian Amery

Correspondence on the bill to reform the Official Secrets Act, mainly relating to the question of authorisation for memoirs by former members of the security services, with correspondents including: Richard Shepherd (3); George Young; Douglas Hurd, Home Secretary (4); David Waddington, Chief Whip; Lord Paget of Northampton; 1st Lord Gladwyn [earlier Hubert Gladwyn Jebb]; 4th Lord Bethell; Lord Greenhill of Harrow; Lord Chalfont [earlier Alun Gwynne Jones]; Lord Rawlinson of Ewell; Lord Fanshawe of Richmond [earlier Anthony Royle]; Lord Home of the Hirsel [earlier Alexander Douglas-Home and 14th Lord Home] (2); Malcolm Turnbull on the memoirs of Peter Wright [former Assistant Director of MI5]; Brian Crozier.

Closed on Cabinet Office advice.