Government censors evidence of corruption

From the Guardian:

The government was yesterday scrambling to recover secret documents containing evidence suggesting corrupt payments were made in Britain's biggest arms deal. The documents, published in full today by the Guardian, detail for the first time how the price of Tornado warplanes was inflated by £600m in the 1985 Al Yamamah deal with Saudi Arabia. A telegram with the details from the head of the Ministry of Defence's sales unit had been placed in the National Archives. Yesterday it was hastily withdrawn by officials who claimed its release had been "a mistake".

A PDF of the agreement is here.

A telegram relating to the progression of the sale (PDF).

A briefing to the government about the sale is here (PDF).

A PDF of minutes of the meeting between the government & the Saudis.