The BBC understands they were picture editor John Edwards, chiefreporter John Kay, chief foreign correspondent Nick Parker, reporter John Sturgis and associate editor Geoff Webster.
Present-day journalists on the list include the Sun's political editor Trevor Kavanagh and the paper's chiefreporter, John Kay, and Sir Larry Lamb, the editor who pioneered the Sun's populist style and introduced page three girls.
Flint moved to New York in 1973, working as The New York Times' chief labor reporter, assistant to the national editor and assistant to the financial editor.