ABSTRACT
As the Lohan storm receded into the past, the swell from it continued to toss the vessels of State and Media around, albeit more gently. In mid-October 1967 the Press reported that a forthcoming American book 7 about to be serialised in the Saturday Evening Post, disclosed the names of the Heads of MI5 and MI6. The Daily Express of 19 October therefore published the names as a challenge, arguing the convention of non-publication could not be applied to something already published abroad, and claiming the D-Notice System was wrongly being used. The new D-Notice Secretary Admiral Denning responded to consequent enquirers that the System had never been used to prevent British republication of such facts appearing in foreign journals [a correct description of the Committee’s policy, if a slightly elastic version of historic reality]. 8
