Sarah Tisdall
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Sarah Tisdall
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Sarah Caroline Tisdall is a former Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) clerical officer who was jailed for leaking British government documents to a newspaper in 1983. In 1983, the UK government agreed to base nuclear armed cruise missiles in the UK. The decision was controversial and defence minister Michael Heseltine and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher wanted to keep the missiles' arrival date a secret to minimise potential demonstrations. Tisdall anonymously sent The Guardian photocopied doc
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FCO whistleblower (1983)
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2024-04-09T02:34:14Z
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