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Former Ministry of Defence unit (UK) This article is about the British Ministry of Defence unit. For the Citroën DS 19 car, see Citroën DS.

Defence Secretariat 19 (DS19) was a special unit set up within the British Ministry of Defence by Michael Heseltine in March 1983. Its purpose was to combat the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) and all calls for unilateral nuclear disarmament.

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Laqueur, Walter; Hunter, Robert Edwards (1985). European Peace Movements and the Future of the Western Alliance. Transaction Publishers. p. 232. ISBN 978-0-88738-035-8.
Coxall, Bill (21 April 1989). Robins, Lynton (ed.). Contemporary British Politics (1st ed.). Macmillan International Higher Education. p. 499. doi:10.1007/978-1-349-19867-2. ISBN 978-0-333-34046-2.
Hostettler, John (2012). Dissenters, Radicals, Heretics and Blasphemers: The Flame of Revolt that Shines Through English History. Waterside Press. p. 242. ISBN 978-1-904380-82-5.
Smith, Adrian (1996). "Chapter 11: Michael Heseltine and the Reorganisation of the Ministry of Defence, 1983-84". In Smith, Paul (ed.). Government and the Armed Forces in Britain, 1856-1990. The Hambledon Press. p. 267. ISBN 978-0-8264-1894-4.

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