Scot for trial in Salisbury
IN Z PA -Reuter— Copyright). SALISBURY, March 24. A Scottish-born banker, Kenneth James Cameron Mclntosh, aged 35, will appear in the Salisbury High Court tomorrow, charged under the Official Secrets Act.
He will also face an alternative charge of contravening the Emergency (CounterEspionage) Regulations. A Government spokesman disclosed today that when Mclntosh was committed for trial at a Magistrate’s Court hearing, a Ministerial order prohibiting publication of certain details was produced. The spokesman was replying to inquiries about a London report, in the “Sunday Times,” that Mclntosh would be tried secretly. The newspaper had said that Mclntosh had been work, ing for a Rhodesian merchant bank. He left Rhodesia in
January for Malawi, but was later handed over to the Rhodesian authorities by the Malawi police. Government officials in Salisbury say they expected that the trial will be held in camera because of. a Ministerial order prohibiting the publication of certain details of the case, which has only today come to public notice. Mclntosh is described on the Magistrate’s Court roll as "a former accepting-house official ” Rhodesian Government officials have declined to give any further details about the man or his case.
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33493, 26 March 1974, Page 11
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