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Fortissimo
Embroidered rather than stitched up? A friend told me he kept duplicate files at home on all the embellishments at Rheindahlen because he was concerned the office set might vanish. Best not to enquire about Pantechnicons allegedly transporting the contents of the Berlin residence back to an unknown private destination in the UK.
At the time of carpetgate and the £250K refurbishment, Sir Malcolm was in a different command and would have had no visibility. Whatever you think of his subsequent sins, I don’t believe he was in any way connected.
There is a fine line between feathering one’s nest and corruption.
While Wilson left the RAF a short while after Rifkind left Defence, the latter was Secretary of State when the decision was made six months earlier. (Feb 1995). Notably, a couple of months later, in April 1995, Rifkind was lied to by senior officers over the Mull of Kintyre affair; and to his great credit later breached convention by speaking up about it alongside John Major. I wonder if the same CAS briefed him about Wilson?