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A veteran journalist, Raju Santhanam has spent over forty years in journalism in print and television. A former head of Zee News and editor of the Statesman, Rajus forte has been investigative journalism. He ran the Statesmans Insight Investigative team for a number of years, and was well known for some of the best investigative stories in the eighties and subsequent years. Currently, Raju is focussed on research-based projects that have a global impact on international audience.

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For Jaya

Without whom this book would not have been possible and to Krishnan for his incisive inputs

CONTENTS

Foreword
Timeline of the Case
Preface
Disclosure
ONE	:	Agusta and the Gandhi Family Probe
TWO	:	Westland Story 1987: Rajiv Gandhis Flip-Flop
THREE	:	The AgustaWestland Tapes
FOUR	:	The Haschke Confessions
FIVE	:	Downfall of Orsi
SIX	:	Acquittal, Conviction and Finally Full Acquittal: The Italian Court Saga
SEVEN	:	Michels Story: The Unfolding of a Scandal
EIGHT	:	Michels War with the Kingpins of Finmeccanica
Epilogue
Index

FOREWORD

Military supplies and aircraft deals have always stimulated writers, investigative journalists and film makers to create great works describing its complexities and moral contradictions. Playwright George Bernard Shaw, who was also a political activist, captured the spirit of this business in his 1905 play Major Barbara, where munitions manufacturer Andrew Undershaft confesses: Here I am, a profiteer in mutilation and murder. Lady Britomart Undershaft, his estranged wife tells her son Stephen: Your father must be fabulously wealthy, because there is always a war going on somewhere. Undershaft agrees: The more destructive war becomes, the more fascinating we find it. His philosophy: To give arms to all men who offer an honest price for them, without respect of persons or principles.

It is said that Shaw had modelled Undershaft after the unscrupulous Greek arms dealer Basil Zaharoff, who had successfully sold faulty Nordenfelt steam-driven submarines to Greece and Turkey by playing up their mutual fears after the GrecoTurkish war in 1897. On top of that he also sold two units to Russia for the Black Sea security.

Anthony Sampson in his 1977 classic Arms Bazaar: From Lebanon to Lockheed says that the honest price policy was followed later in munitions sales to antagonistic countries by Alfred Nobel, Alfred Krupp, Andrew Carnegie and the Dupont family, described as the Merchants of Death. He highlights how US Defence Secretary Robert McNamara (196168) chose to ignore President Dwight Eisenhowers warning during his farewell speech on January 7, 1961 on the threat from Military Industrial Complex to a democratic government. Instead, he initiated US arms sales to NATO countries to offset the deficit in the balance of payments, thus strengthening this lobby.

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