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http://www.ex-bbc.net/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl >> History >> rRe: COLD WAR(1980s): WARTIME BROADCASTING SERVICE http://www.ex-bbc.net/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?num=1097953091 Message started by Gordon_Waters on Oct 22^nd, 2004, 7:34pm

Title: rRe: COLD WAR(1980s): WARTIME BROADCASTING SERVICE
Post by Gordon_Waters on Oct 22^nd, 2004, 7:34pm

Try Simon Vaughan , e-mailaddress.

apts@apts.org .uk or Bob Longman e-mail
rlongman@IEE.org.uk

Gordon Waters

Title: Re: COLD WAR(1980s): WARTIME BROADCASTING SERVICE
Post by Richard_Lamont on Nov 5^th, 2005, 7:24pm

Try http://www.bbc.co.uk/foi/

I got some cold war stuff about WTBS from the BBC this way, eventually. Initially they turned my FoIA request down entirely, citing the section 24 exemption relating to 'national security'. When I pointed out some 47 files in the National Archives on the topic, of which 33 were open, from half a dozen government departments, they had a rethink and changed tack. So far the stuff they have released is mostly over 30 years old and covers roughly the same ground as the NA files, most of which were open pre-FoIA under the old 30-year rule. I'm sure they could release a lot of more recent stuff as well, and I think they probably will. I know someone else who put in an FoIA request about 1980's BBC facilities in the Shipton RGHQ and got a pile of technical drawings about it.