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The Defence and Security Media Advisory Committee is a British advisory body established in 2015 which oversees a voluntary code which operates between the government departments which have responsibility for national security and the media.


History

Preceding organisations: *Admiralty, War Office and Press Committee, 1912–1919. An Assistant Secretary of the War Office and Mr. Robbins, the representative of the
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, were joint Secretaries. Letters, or telegrams, were sent to editors when agreed. They came to be known as "Parkers" after Mr. Parke who was then the representative of the
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on the Committee. This evolved into the
D-Notice In the United Kingdom, a DSMA-Notice (Defence and Security Media Advisory Notice) is an official request to news editors not to publish or broadcast items on specified subjects for reasons of national security. DSMA-Notices were formerly called a ...
system. *Admiralty, War Office, Air Ministry and Press Committee, 1919–1939. *Admiralty, War Office, Air Ministry and Press Committee, 1945–1967. Admiral George Thompson, who had been the Chief Press Censor during the war, became the Secretary of the committee in 1945. * Services, Press and Broadcasting Committee c.1967–1993. Vice Admiral Sir
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was appointed Secretary in 1967. *Defence, Press and Broadcasting Committee, 1993–2015. The records of the committees are held in the
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. The Defence, Press and Broadcasting Advisory Committee issued
DA-Notice In the United Kingdom, a DSMA-Notice (Defence and Security Media Advisory Notice) is an official request to news editors not to publish or broadcast items on specified subjects for reasons of national security. DSMA-Notices were formerly called a ...
s from 1993 to 2015. The secretary was a former two-star military officer employed from a
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budget and is housed by them (although technically independent) and the committee is made up of senior civil servants and representatives of national media organisations.


Membership

The committee consisted of five government representatives and 16 media representatives. The five government positions on the committee were all
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- the chairman being the current
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of the Ministry of Defence. The 2nd
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of the Ministry of Defence, the
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, the Permanent Under Secretary of the Home Office and the Deputy Under Secretary from the
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were the other officers. The Vice Chairman was chosen by the press members from among their number. The media representatives were nominated by the following organisations: *
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Actions

On 25 November 2010, the Defence, Press and Broadcasting Advisory Committee sent
DA-Notice In the United Kingdom, a DSMA-Notice (Defence and Security Media Advisory Notice) is an official request to news editors not to publish or broadcast items on specified subjects for reasons of national security. DSMA-Notices were formerly called a ...
s to UK newspapers regarding an expected major publication by
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of a "huge cache" of United States (US) diplomatic cables.
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presented this as part of "a harm minimisation strategy the US government has embarked on
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an impressive briefing campaign, reaching out to allies across the world."


References


External links


Official web site of DA-Notices and of the committee
*Nicholas Wilkinson: Secrecy and the Media, The Official History of the United Kingdom's D-Notice System, Routledge, Chapman &Hall, London, 2009 {{DEFAULTSORT:Defence, Press And Broadcasting Advisory Committee Censorship in the United Kingdom Public bodies and task forces of the United Kingdom government