Who was the high flying civil servant of the MOD tried and acquitted of passing Top Secret documents to Labour MP Tam Dayell?
Clive Ponting Clive Ponting Clive Sheridan Ponting (born 13 April 1946) is a former senior civil servant, best known for leaking documents about the sinking of the ARA "General Belgrano" in the Falklands War. He is the author of a number of revisionist books on British and world history. While a senior civil servant at the Ministry of Defence (MoD), Ponting sent two documents, subsequently nicknamed "the crown jewels", to Labour MP Tam Dalyell in July 1984 concerning the sinking of an Argentine navy warship "General Belgrano", a key incident in the Falklands War of 1982. After Ponting admitted revealing the information,
Jon Thompson (civil servant) Jon Thompson (civil servant) Jonathan Michael Thompson is a British civil servant who served as the Permanent Under-Secretary of State at the Ministry of Defence (MOD) from September 2012 until April 2016, when he succeeded Dame Lin Homer as the Permanent Under-Secretary of State and Chief Executive of HM Revenue and Customs. Thompson was born in Norwich, and educated at Earlham High School, Norwich City College and Anglia Polytechnic, which later became Anglia Ruskin University. He became CIPFA qualified in 1989. Thompson was in local government as Finance Director for North Somerset Council. Thompson joined the Civil Service in 2004,