1967 Press Photo Britain Releases Secret Records Some 20 Years Earlier

NEW 30-YEARS RULE ON GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS. 20 years of Britain's best kept secrets were secret no longer, when the doors of the Public Records Office in Chancery Lane, London, opened this morning. Until now, historians had to wait 50 years for Cabinet papers to give up their secrets. The Government's decision to cut the waiting period to 30 years radically alters the situation. PHOTO SHOWS:- Looking down on visitors at work on papers and documents in the "Round Research Room" at Public Records Office today.

Photo measures 10 x 8 inches.

Photo is dated 01-01-1967.

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