My former colleague Jon Tinker, who has died aged 83, was involved in the 1960s in Spies for Peace, a British group of anti-war activists. In 1963 they photographed and published top-secret government plans for maintaining control after a nuclear attack.
Jon disclosed his role to me shortly before he died. He admitted he did not have the derring-do to take part in the break-in into one of the secret bunkers intended to govern the country in the event of nuclear war, but he relished the subsequent cloak-and-dagger operation to write the pamphlet and news release that the government unsuccessfully tried to suppress.
