HC Deb 19 June 1967 vol 748 c182W
Mr. Powell

asked the Secretary of State for Defence if he will make a statement on the recent discovery of defence documents at Romford in a car repossessed by a hire-purchase company.

Mr. Merlyn Rees

The documents consisted of 6 sheets showing parts of the wiring diagram of a Javelin aircraft and 2 sheets showing parts of the wiring diagram of a Canberra aircraft. They bore the lowest security grading of "Restricted" when they were first issued in 1957, but their contents ceased to be classified some time ago. Large numbers of these documents were issued for Government and industrial use but investigations are being made to see whether the ownership of the documents can be discovered.

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