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	He also wrote the account of the founding of [[Stonewall]] which records the part played by [[Douglas Slater]], the House of Lords clerk who briefed the anti-[[Section 28]] campaigners on parliamentary procedure at [[Ian McKellen]]'s house in Limehouse in February 1988.<ref name="founding">[https://www.duncancampbell.org/content/founding-stonewall Founding Stonewall], DuncanCampbell.org.</ref>		He also wrote the account of the founding of [[Stonewall]] which records the part played by [[Douglas Slater]], the House of Lords clerk who briefed the anti-[[Section 28]] campaigners on parliamentary procedure at [[Ian McKellen]]'s house in Limehouse in February 1988.<ref name="founding">[https://www.duncancampbell.org/content/founding-stonewall Founding Stonewall], DuncanCampbell.org.</ref>

	=== Campbell v the Pink Paper ===		== Campbell v the Pink Paper ==
	In 1992 Campbell won libel damages of £20,000 from the ''[[Pink Paper]]'' over an		In 1992 Campbell won libel damages of £20,000 from the ''[[Pink Paper]]'' over an
	article which accused him of conducting a vendetta against the AIDS organisation		article which accused him of conducting a vendetta against the AIDS organisation

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	He also wrote the account of the founding of [[Stonewall]] which records the part played by [[Douglas Slater]], the House of Lords clerk who briefed the anti-[[Section 28]] campaigners on parliamentary procedure at [[Ian McKellen]]'s house in Limehouse in February 1988.<ref name="founding">[https://www.duncancampbell.org/content/founding-stonewall Founding Stonewall], DuncanCampbell.org.</ref>		He also wrote the account of the founding of [[Stonewall]] which records the part played by [[Douglas Slater]], the House of Lords clerk who briefed the anti-[[Section 28]] campaigners on parliamentary procedure at [[Ian McKellen]]'s house in Limehouse in February 1988.<ref name="founding">[https://www.duncancampbell.org/content/founding-stonewall Founding Stonewall], DuncanCampbell.org.</ref>

			=== Campbell v the Pink Paper ===
			In 1992 Campbell won libel damages of £20,000 from the ''[[Pink Paper]]'' over an
			article which accused him of conducting a vendetta against the AIDS organisation
			[[Positively Healthy]], of using threats to obtain his story, and of taking money
			from pharmaceutical companies. The claims were found to be defamatory. Campbell
			said that he had himself been threatened and physically attacked after the
			article appeared.<ref name="ioc">"Index Index: United Kingdom", ''Index on Censorship'', 1992.</ref>

			The case is cited in subsequent scholarship as marking a sharp division within
			the gay community of the period, between investigative scrutiny of unproven AIDS
			treatments and a more oppositional stance towards orthodox medicine.<ref name="core">Academic paper accessed via CORE Open Access Research.</ref>

	== Awards ==		== Awards ==

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	''This article is about the investigative journalist born in 1952. For the Guardian crime correspondent of the same name, born 1944, see [[Duncan Campbell (crime correspondent)]].''		''This article is about the investigative journalist born in 1952. For the Guardian crime correspondent of the same name, born 1944, see Duncan Campbell (crime correspondent).''

	'''Duncan Campbell''' FRSA (born 1952) is a British investigative journalist, author and television producer. Since 1975 he has specialised in intelligence and security, defence, policing and civil liberties, and latterly in computer forensics. He came out as gay in 1987 and has investigated a number of LGBT subjects, notably bogus HIV and AIDS treatments and the practitioners who sold them.<ref name="dcorg">[http://www.duncancampbell.org/content/lesbian-gay-rights Lesbian & gay rights], DuncanCampbell.org.</ref>		'''Duncan Campbell''' FRSA (born 1952) is a British investigative journalist, author and television producer. Since 1975 he has specialised in intelligence and security, defence, policing and civil liberties, and latterly in computer forensics. He came out as gay in 1987 and has investigated a number of LGBT subjects, notably bogus HIV and AIDS treatments and the practitioners who sold them.<ref name="dcorg">[http://www.duncancampbell.org/content/lesbian-gay-rights Lesbian & gay rights], DuncanCampbell.org.</ref>

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''This article is about the investigative journalist born in 1952. For the Guardian crime correspondent of the same name, born 1944, see [[Duncan Campbell (crime correspondent)]].''

'''Duncan Campbell''' FRSA (born 1952) is a British investigative journalist, author and television producer. Since 1975 he has specialised in intelligence and security, defence, policing and civil liberties, and latterly in computer forensics. He came out as gay in 1987 and has investigated a number of LGBT subjects, notably bogus HIV and AIDS treatments and the practitioners who sold them.<ref name="dcorg">[http://www.duncancampbell.org/content/lesbian-gay-rights Lesbian & gay rights], DuncanCampbell.org.</ref>

== Early life ==
Campbell was born in [[Glasgow]] and brought up and educated in [[Dundee]]. His mother was a mathematician who had worked at [[Bletchley Park]] under [[Alan Turing]]. He first trained in computer programming at sixteen, took an open scholarship to Brasenose College, Oxford, and graduated in 1973 with a first in physics, followed by a master's degree in operational research at the University of Sussex.

At Sussex he joined the collective that produced ''Brighton Voice'', a paper of broadly anarcho-socialist outlook whose coverage included gay rights, civil liberties, policing and housing.

== Investigative journalism ==
In 1976 Campbell wrote "The Eavesdroppers" for ''[[Time Out]]'' with Mark Hosenball, the first occasion on which the British press printed the name of GCHQ. Hosenball, an American, was deported; Campbell, who could not be, was placed under surveillance by MI5 and his telephones tapped.

The following year he was arrested with Crispin Aubrey and John Berry under the Official Secrets Act, in what became known as the [[ABC trial]]. He was convicted in 1978 but no punishment was imposed.

He was a staff writer at the ''New Statesman'' from 1978 to 1991 and its associate editor for investigations from 1988. In 1985 he was commissioned by BBC Scotland to make the documentary series ''Secret Society''. Its Zircon episode, concerning a secret satellite programme, provoked the affair of that name in 1987: Campbell's front door was kicked in and his home searched, and Special Branch raided BBC Scotland to seize the tapes. In 1988 he revealed the existence of the ECHELON surveillance system.

In 2005 and 2007 he investigated the Operation Ore prosecutions, showing that computer evidence used against more than seven thousand people had rested on falsehoods.

== LGBT journalism ==
Campbell came out publicly in 1987 and has since written extensively on lesbian and gay subjects. Among his best-known work in this field are investigations into bogus HIV and AIDS medicines and the practitioners who promoted them, during a period when treatments of unproven or no value were being sold to men with a terminal diagnosis.<ref name="dcorg"/>

He also wrote the account of the founding of [[Stonewall]] which records the part played by [[Douglas Slater]], the House of Lords clerk who briefed the anti-[[Section 28]] campaigners on parliamentary procedure at [[Ian McKellen]]'s house in Limehouse in February 1988.<ref name="founding">[https://www.duncancampbell.org/content/founding-stonewall Founding Stonewall], DuncanCampbell.org.</ref>

== Awards ==
* 1980 – Cobden Trust Award
* 1983 – Periodical Publishers Association, Specialist Writer of the Year
* 1987 – ''What the Papers Say'', Investigative Journalist of the Year
* 1987 – Campaign for Freedom of Information, Media Award
* 1989 – Magazine Publishing Awards, Best Business Feature

== Selected books ==
* ''Big Brother is Listening: Phone Tappers and the Security State'' (1981)
* ''War Plan UK: The Truth about Civil Defence in Britain'' (1982)
* ''The Unsinkable Aircraft Carrier: American Military Power in Britain'' (1984)
* ''On the Record: Surveillance, Computers and Privacy'', with S. Connor (1986)

== External links ==
* [https://www.duncancampbell.org/ duncancampbell.org]

== References ==
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