Sir Frank Cooper’s response to DSO chief’s memo

Exaro publishes the response accepting a recommendation to allow “agency fees” of 10 per cent in a huge Saudi defence deal.

Sir Frank Cooper, as permanent secretary of the Ministry of Defence (MoD), approved paying the fees in the Sangcom project to overhaul the Saudi Arabian national guard’s communications systems. He was writing in response to recommendations from Sir Lester Suffield, then head of the MoD’s Defence Sales Organisation.

On Suffield’s proposal to allow increased profit margins to accommodate other charges, Cooper wrote: “I see no difficulty about what you propose.”

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