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| Ivor Catt, 4 July 1980. Victor Goodhew M.P., House of Commons, Westminster.
Dear Mr. Goodhew, If an employee working in induastry on a government funded cost-plus defence contract becomes convinced that hundreds of millions of pounds of taxpayers' money is being cynically burnt up in order to increase company profits, and at the same time the su[pposed weapon is not being seriously developed, there seems to be no procedure for him to bring it to the government's notice, the MOD's notince, or the taxpayer's notice. A senior member of parliament has said that one is breaking the Official Secrets Act if one communicates with one's M.P. on the subject. [Goodhew was my MP and Chairman of the Commons Defence Committee.] There seems to be no procedure open to such a person to prevent the Official Secrets Act from being used to develop weapons. There seems to be no way to prevent the Official Secrets Act from being used to undermine this country's defences. It owuld not bear usefully on the problem if such a person got himself a jail sentence. I think that such matters become of great interest if hundreds odf millions, rather than tens of millons, of pounds of taxpayers' money is involved. Yours sincerely, [Signed] Ivor Catt, Member, Parliamentary Computer Forum. Proprietor: Computer Associative Modules LImited - No. 1117165 @@@@@@@@@@@@@ REPORT
ON THE MEETING OF 14 Nov. 1980 .
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