The World - News from Feb. 12, 1985
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A top British defense official who leaked secret documents about the Falklands War was acquitted by a London jury on charges of breaking secrecy laws. Clive Ponting, 38, an assistant secretary in the Defense Ministry, was accused of breaking a 1911 law forbidding civil servants to pass information to an unauthorized person. The documents, mailed to a Laborite member of Parliament, indicated that the Argentine warship Belgrano was heading home when it was sunk by a British submarine in May, 1982. The British government said the ship was threatening its forces.
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