Sarah Tisdall
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Publicising US cruise missile nuclear weapons deployments in the UK.
A former UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office clerical officer, Tisdall was jailed for leaking British government documents to a newspaper in 1983. She anonymously sent The Guardian photocopied documents detailing when American cruise missile nuclear weapons would be arriving in the United Kingdom. The documents set out the political tactics Michael Heseltine, then defence minister, would use to present the matter in the House of Commons.
