ABSTRACT
The D-Notice Review having been settled, the DPBAC returned to routine business at its 27 October 1993 meeting. Pulvertaft mentioned another relevant Open Government document recently issued, outlining the central Intelligence machinery. 65 On the application of the new Notices, and particularly those which had caused most debate during the Review, the Secretary said he had had no difficulty in interpreting the phrase ‘other individuals [who] are likely targets for attacks by terrorists’ in D-Notice No.6. He was in reality still in discussion with officials about how he did so, since they would have liked this category to include a somewhat wider spectrum of people than the Committee had agreed. As an extreme example, there was an MoD policy of not disclosing the names of frontline pilots, because of the experiences of captured aircrew during the first Gulf War; Pulvertaft (and the court concerned) drew the line, however, at protecting the name of an RN pilot’s wife charged with a drink-driving offence.
