I recall it being put forward as both. I said here, that people had made a career by showing that money could be saved by using helicopters (to greatly reduce man hours used to carry out searches, which they do) and that someone else would make a career out of dismantling it all, to prove that money could be saved by doing so.
A case of the cat being out of the bag, rather than a rabbit being pulled out of a hat.
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