Secret agents ???
Among all the froth about BAES and MoD and their respective responsibilities for the Nimrod cancellation, little has been said about the pervasive influence of the Treasury and what I once saw described as "its unconventional ways of accounting" .
Can anyone on Pprune say anything factual about this?
Rattling on about "beancounters" isn't helpful, but an insight into how the expensively educated and "fratefley respectable" gentlemen operate, both overtly and covertly, would be instructive - I remember from the past well-coordinated attacks on other programmes via "chums" in "respectable" weekly and daily newspapers giving figures that could hardly have come from MoD ... Someone in high(ish) places has an agenda and no qualms about "slipping" a nugget or two to a friendly scribe (or MP).