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Defence: Heseltine letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Mobile Subscriber Equipment") [problems Plessey face in bidding for US Army battlefield communications system ... "The potential size of the contract is enormous ... an MOD scheme, as proposed by Plessey, under which we would agree to buy from them, at predetermined rates, all the dollars they received under the contract"] [declassified Jan 2014]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: PREM19/1186 f203
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Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 11pp
Themes: Employment, Industry, Public spending & borrowing, Trade, Foreign policy (USA), Foreign policy (development, aid, etc), European Union (general), Science & technology, Defence (general), British relations with France, British relations with the US