AG/LIT/16/5/3 - Libel case Ronald Titcombe v The Observer

AG/LIT/16/5/3

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Libel case Ronald Titcombe v The Observer

1983-1988

1 file

Observer

Includes:
- Statements in open court.
- Letters to newspapers including the Observer.
- Statement by RT.
- Solicitors’ correspondence.
- Press release to the Observer, 19/11/1985.
- Press article by Michael Gawenda and John Larkin (Observer).

Press cuttings:
- City man wins libel damages. Observer, 13/10/1988.
- Holt family has no legal way to stop spy book. Michael Gil.
- Author was out to write thriller, says an angry Dame Zara. The Age, 21/11/1983.
- PM-spied-for-China book ‘is hoax’. Laurence Marks.
- Holt family denounces book’s spy claims, 21/11/1983?
- Dame Zara to read ‘spy’ book. Canberra Times, 21/11/1983.
- Holt spied for China. Missing Premier.
- Zara’s fury. Phil Teese.
- Cooking up a spy stew. Rex Lopex. Melbourne Sun, 22/11/1983.
- Holt ‘a spy’ claim in new book. Dame Zara’s … The Sunday Telegraph, 20/11/1983.
- Harold a Spy … laughable: Zara. Joe Payne. The Sun[day] Herald, 20/11/1983.
- Diplomat told war secrets – claim. Melbourne Herald, 22/11/1983.
- Quest for a master spy. Michael Davie. The Observer, 4/12/1983. (with photo of Lord Weidenfeld, publisher).