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Duncan Campbell, Britain, is a television producer and investigative reporter/writer.

Duncan Campbell, Britain

A journalist since 1975, Campbell has specialized in investigating sensitive political topics, including defense, policing, and the intelligence and security services. In 1976, he revealed for the first time the activities of Britain’s largest electronic eavesdropping agency, Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), Cheltenham. GCHQ is now well known, but Campbell’s investigation resulted in the deportation of his co-author and ultimately his own arrest and trial, with two others, under Britain’s Official Secrets Act. Campbell, formerly a staff writer for the British political weekly New Statesman, has continued to challenge government secrecy in areas where its object is the defeat of public accountability. Further controversy followed his work for the BBC on a special series, Secret Society. Programs from the series were banned from transmission in a major row in January 1987, which led to internationally publicized police raids. In 1989, New Statesman and Society published a series of exposés on health frauds directed at cancer and AIDS patients. Campbell’s production company, IPTV, has produced many investigative documentaries for Britain’s Channel 4 Television.