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100 1 $aJames, Gerald.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97050032
245 10 $aIn the public interest :$ba devastating account of the Thatcher Government's involvement in the covert arms trade, by the man who turned Astra Fireworks into a £100m arms manufacturer /$cGerald James.
260 $aLondon :$bLittle, Brown,$c1995.
300 $axxviii, 339 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations, facsimiles, portraits ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
505 00 $gCh. 1.$tHot Shots in America --$gCh. 2.$tRoots in Britain --$gCh. 3.$tThatcher's Militarised Economy --$gCh. 4.$tThe Cabal --$gCh. 5.$tAstra UK, 1986-7: Infiltration by the Cabal --$gCh. 6.$tThe Entrepreneurial Fallacy of Thatcher's Britain --$gCh. 7.$tPulling the Plug --$tAppendix I: Commissions on Margaret Thatcher's Defence Contracts --$tAppendix II: Jonathan Aitken, Bmarc, and Iraq --$tAppendix III: The Covert Government-Sponsored Arms & Propellant Cartel --$tAppendix IV: The Cover-Up.
520 $aIn the Public Interest rewrites the Thatcher years, revealing a political management structure in Britain today which makes a mockery of the democratic process.
520 8 $aIn her two volumes of bestselling memoirs, Margaret Thatcher gives scant coverage to an event which Gerald James describes as the linchpin of her economic strategy. The event - the war between Iran and Iraq - ran for 80 per cent of her term, during which time James was chairman of Britain's fastest rising arms company, Astra Holdings plc.
520 8 $aThe war offered a market worth billions, and represented the most efficient means to turn round Britain's ailing economy: Saddam Hussein held at least 10 per cent of the world's oil reserves; the market simply could not be ignored.
520 8 $aThatcher's strategy was not handled in Parliament, which had outlawed trade with Iraq, but in a political backroom by a cabal, an amalgam of secret state and City interests, made up of businessmen (including major manufacturers), powerful civil servants and intelligence officers from M15 and M16. Margaret Thatcher was the first Prime Minister to harness the might of this group to her purpose, and, as the Scott Inquiry discovered, she got her ministers to rubber-stamp the group's every move.
520 8 $aGerald James reveals the LISI contract with Iran as but one instance of Government collaboration in a trade not only in conventional weapons, but in chemical and nuclear ones too, which was conducted on almost a daily basis until a few years ago. In the Public Interest reveals, possibly for the first time, how the defence industry was used to serve the interests of a few at the expense of the interests of the nation.
600 10 $aJames, Gerald.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97050032
600 10 $aThatcher, Margaret.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50000017
650 0 $aIllegal arms transfers$zIraq.
650 0 $aMilitary assistance, British$zIraq.
650 0 $aWeapons industry$zGreat Britain.
650 0 $aIran-Iraq War, 1980-1988.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85067954
650 0 $aPersian Gulf War, 1991.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh91001459
651 4 $aGreat Britain$xPolitics and government$y1979-
653 0 $aWeapons$aTrades
653 0 $aIraq
886 2 $2ukmarc$a910$b10$aGreat Britain$cPrime Minister$xSee also$aThatcher, Margaret$z600/1
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