Clive Ponting obituary

Senior civil servant who became a whistleblower over the Falklands warClive Ponting, who has died aged 74, was a star civil servant who became a whistleblower over the Falklands war. In 1984 he leaked documents about the sinking of the Argentinian cruiser General Belgrano and the following year was sensationally acquitted by a British jury despite his breach of the UK’s then notorious Official Secrets Act.What has not been disclosed until now is that Ponting also went on to expose one of B