Security service defended
i ! | <IVZ. Press Association) !| WELLINGTON, March 6. ' The former Prime Minister j(Sir John Marshall) said to- • | night that he saw no justifii 1 cation for a review of the Security Intelligence Service. Speaking on the television ’ programme. "Seven Days,” he 1 said that the service was well tried and had proved itself ■in operation for nearly 20 • years. I Most of the criticism of the service came from people who wanted to bring in a different form of government. • such as a Communist State or I dictatorship, which the people • of New Zealand opposed, he r said. He also said, in answer to questions, that there was] j adequate protection for indi-i llviduals through appeal to the! '■Commissioner for Security! ;] Appeals, a retired Supreme: Court judge, if they had been
excluded from a position for which they were qualified.
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33786, 7 March 1975, Page 2
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