Editing Calvine Photo Incident — Key Persons Directory (section)

==== Nick Pope ====
[[Nick Pope]] - Former MoD civil servant; ran the UFO desk (Secretariat Air Staff 2a) from 1991 to 1994 at Top Secret / SCI clearance. Had access to the original Calvine negatives and prints during his MoD tenure. Described seeing a poster-sized print of the best photograph in the UFO desk briefing room — later removed by his superiors with the instruction "no further action." First publicly mentioned the Calvine incident in his 1996 book Open Skies, Closed Minds. Worked with a graphic artist to produce a 2015 reconstruction of the best image. Acknowledged awareness of the name Kevin Russell in a February 2025 Guardian interview but declined to comment.