24-11-2014, 10:09 AM
I think there is some confusion here. I'm pretty sure there is or was no 'D notice' with respect to Dr Kelly, not could there possibly have been one in relation to WWI. What the poster presumably means is the files have been sealed for seventy years or more. Presumably the First World War example refers to the files relating to the sinking of the Lusitania, some of which - as far I understand - are still secret. Both Dunblane and the Dr David Kelly files are sealed. It is a curious phenomenon, when you stop to reflect on it, the (deep) State deciding to do this. Where do 'they' get the authority in 1917 to decide that people living today should not be allowed to read the signals that passed between the Admiralty and the Lusitania in her final hours? I'm surprised, too, that the system works. Do they have especially draconian punishments to keep the keepers of the records in line? If you were responsible for that particular archive, wouldn't you be tempted to have a peek?