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
Press Association, 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
Newspaper Proprietors' Association 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
Norman Denning
Vice-Admiral Sir Norman Egbert Denning, (19 November 1904 – 27 December 1979) was a Royal Naval and Intelligence Officer at the Admiralty and Defence Intelligence Staff who served as Director of Naval Planning from 1945 to 1956, Director of ...
was appointed Secretary in 1967.
*Defence, Press and Broadcasting Committee, 1993–2015.
The records of the committees are held in the
British National Archives.
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
Ministry of Defence 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
ex officio - the chairman being the current
Permanent Under Secretary of the Ministry of Defence. The 2nd
Permanent Under Secretary of the Ministry of Defence, the
Cabinet Office Permanent Secretary, the Permanent Under Secretary of the
Home Office and the Deputy Under Secretary from the
Foreign and Commonwealth Office 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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On 25 November 2010, the Defence, Press and Broadcasting Advisory Committee sent
of a "huge cache" of United States (US) diplomatic cables.
presented this as part of "a harm minimisation strategy the US government has embarked on
*Nicholas Wilkinson: Secrecy and the Media, The Official History of the United Kingdom's D-Notice System, Routledge, Chapman &Hall, London, 2009
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