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Documentary: Trail of the Dove |
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Friday, 23 March 2007 |
An exclusive interview with one of Britain's leading investigative
journalists and a former insider, the Trail of the Dove reveals the extent of
surcharges, commissions and the $100 millon secret fund used by the UK's leading
arms firm, BAE Systems, to grease the wheels of the biggest arms deals in
British history.
Al-Yamamah 'The Dove' is the name of a series of massive arms sales by the
United Kingdom to Saudi Arabia. It is Britain's largest ever export agreement,
and the prime contractor has been BAE Systems and its predecessor British
Aerospace, which earned £43 billion in 20 years.
Both the UK's National Audit Office (report never released) and The Serious
Fraud Office (halted) conducted investigations into corruption allegations.
Trail of the Dove has also had access to ministry of defence secret documents
and ambassadorial official correspondence that shows the level of corruption in
the British arms trade.
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