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... e como promovem apenas aqueles que sabem poder ovelhar.

Margaret Thatcher’s government drew up a secret blacklist of its own civil servants thought to be “subversives” in order to keep them under observation and block their promotion, papers released at the National Archives disclose.

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The government overcame similar problems in the surveillance of teachers by arranging for school inspectors to report directly to MI5.

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The need for the utmost secrecy is stressed repeatedly throughout the files that have been made available at Kew. One SPL chair, John Chilcot, wrote in June 1988: “It is right on balance to continue with this exercise, despite its acute sensitivity and the high risk of embarrassment in the event of any leak.”