The former boss of the health care wathdog is among those allegedly involved in a cover-up of an NHS regulator's failure to investigate a spate of baby deaths.
The Care Quality Commission's former chief executive Cynthia Bower was present during a discussion of the deletion of an internal review.
The review criticised the regulator's inspections of University Hospitals of Morcambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust, where a number of mothers and babies died.
Her then deputy Jill Finney and media manager Anna Jefferson were both also present when the matter was discussed, a CQC spokesman said.
Louise Dineley, the author of the internal review, told independent investigators that Ms Finney had ordered the deletion of the report and Ms Bower and Ms Jefferson had "verbally agreed".
The names had initially been redacted following legal advice to the CQC when the report was published on Wednesday.
However, the regulator's current head, David Behan, said a decision was made to publish the names "in the public interest" following legal advice.
He said: "A decision which reviewed the involvement of the organisation ... should have been made in an open and transparent way.
"We failed some people who had trust in our judgement. I think it's absolutely essential that we begin to restore public and political confidence in the CQC."
The report suggested that CQC bosses were so concerned about protecting the watchdog's reputation that they ordered an internal review to be deleted because it showed their original inspection was flawed.
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said he was "very pleased" the individuals had now been named.
He said: "It's a sign that the NHS is changing.
"There has been a history of cover-ups for many years but there has to be accountability within the NHS for people's actions when something goes wrong.
"It's to the credit of the new management of the CQC that they got an independent report and did not run away from this problem."
Concerns were first raised about the trust in 2008, but in 2010 the CQC gave the trust, which serves 365,000 people in south Cumbria and north Lancashire, a clean bill of health.
Joshua Titcombe died in 2008 aged just nine days old in Furness General Hospital after staff failed to spot and treat an infection.
His father has previously described news of the cover-up as "shocking".
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