Release of selected Sutch papers and Sir Guy Powles' top secret report

  • Posted June 06, 2008

Dr W B Sutch was tried and acquitted of charges under the Official Secrets Act in 1975. The following year Sir Guy Powles, then Chief Ombudsman, made a Top Secret report to the Prime Minister on events surrounding the Sutch case.

The NZSIS has accepted a recommendation made by the Chief Ombudsman to release selected papers from the Sutch file, and the Chief Ombudsman and the Director of Security are agreed that the time has now come for Sir Guy’s report to be declassified and made public.

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