protest.
Two weeks after the banning of This Week more than 80 TV programme makers directors, producers, and reporters political censorship" of programmes about the Nordh of reland by both the IBA and the BBC. They demanded to Know the real reasons for the bannings, postponements and forced cuts to he made public.
By itself the meeting is unlikely to make the censors lose much sleep. But the information the meeting asked the LEITE HEIS assemble about the different forms of HEIS censorship latter explosive.
One example was give by BBC producer Philip Donellan who told of ms ta am DoRLans зuouлову the trish Way" series. The cersoring of MUS SCIE ICL TO USC FOSSOMBIC DE producer Clive Thomas. meBu, Bmiost a possuis. Eodt colc Army's main pre-condition the filmine them was that the KUC should Star be be shown to be taking an equal part in •We're not scuny soch c MicrocE or dos tocy really were The bolstering up of the RUC is Government's and Roy Mason is that many of the programme makers enough of their programmes being butchered whether an Sapper, General Secretary ready Perecly. Speaking of the blacking our confront this of Thames television by technicians furious ar the IBA's decision, Sapper applanded their action, casting Authority banned the showing of the "This Week' programme on the Amnesty exposure of Britsh torture of prisoners in Ireland it could hardly have guessed at the storm it was starting.
JOHN HACKERA reports on the growth of the Immediately and absolutely met to protest al the apainst political SOrENCE HEENT againsı censorship potentially Northern Ireland, Donellan of his THE ANNUAL.
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. It seems that one union capable of al leas partially resisting IBA edicts is now ready to sanction industrial action censorship A commitment by the media unions to detend nor ony individua members facing victimisation, bur also the right have a dramatic effect in this context of free spooch for all on ireland, would them. their Sapper's support for industrial action extremely important; it can be used to puil the National Union of Journalists behind a similar nolicy, and could well provoke a file past crisis in the media's whole attitude to observation, shift."
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Who will protect us from the atomic are accountable to the AEA, an unclecied body responsible to the Secretary of State For Energy, who is in turn answerable to Parliament — hut not for theis day-to-day activities. vetting.
S/he can intervene in their detailed operations. under ibe 1954 Atomic BIeTeN ACE Ony where tie nationa interest so requires: MPS asking Parlamcotary questions about meico movements of plutonium bave been told that it is 'not in the publie interest' for their queries to be answered.
So who decides when Parliament or the Secretary of State should intervene to control the AFA Constabulary7 Workers in the nuclear industry will be automatic targets of surveillance and security measures. The security service, MIS, will be responsible for velling f'amilies, and "KOOWn associates" in a procodure similar to that usod in the Civil Servioe and the defence contract industries.
According to a report publisbed in Jastice: "Employees may be required to armoed suards, micht required so change uniform while under CATLE subject temporary derention whenever material was unaccounted for at the end of a OBSERVATION If MIS regards it as necessary surveillance could also be extended lc employees of the Central Electricity Board public corporation which owns and operates all existing commercial nuclear power stations→ if they are in contact with information about plutoniu Eren private contractors to the could be affected Surveillance will oot stop at the gate of nuclear installations. beyond th industry, M1S and the Special Branch will keep records ou those whom the!
"potentia terrorists Dorine the Windscale Inquiry, the Department of Enerpy was asked to define exactly who mighr be put under reply wes: 'Bodies and individuais opposed to the develop-
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