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Imperial Reach
Campbell, Duncan | December 5, 1987 issue

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The article reports on the banning by the British government of the book "Spycatcher," by Peter Wright, a best-seller in the United States. Even a song about it, "Ballad of a Spy-catcher," is banned on radio. The Thatcher government tried to extend the tentacles of censorship to the United States after it got word that ABC News was planning to air part or all of the banned documentary. It is Thatcher's arrogance of power that permits, perhaps compels, such behavior. And her attitudes are fully supported by officials in her government. Press secretary Bernard Ingham, for example, boasted while in the United States that the British citizen has no right to know and does not want to know what the government is up to.

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SPYCATCHER: The Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence Officer (Book); SANCTIONS (Law); GOVERNMENT & the press; GOVERNMENT policy; RETAIL trade; GREAT Britain
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