§ Mr. DalyellTo ask the Attorney-General why Her Majesty's Government have not sought an injunction to restrain publication of the book written by the hon. Member for Torbay (Mr. Allason) under the pseudonym of Nigel West entitled, "The Friends: Britain's Post-war Secret Intelligence Operations."
§ The Attorney-GeneralThe Government deplore the publication of books of this nature, and especially when advice from the D Notice Committee secretary has to any extent been disregarded.
As regards legal action, this is not a case of an author who is or has been a Crown servant, and taking that fact into account, together with the contents of this particular book, the Government concluded that an application for an injunction to restrain the book's publication would be unlikely to succeed.