Gerald James

Gerald James Amazon (Whistleblower)
File:GeraldJames.png Gerald James circa 1995
Exposed	Arms-to-Iraq
"The most important and high-level whistleblower in the defence industry"

Gerald Reavely James was Chairman of Astra Holdings PLC through the period covering most of the UK Thatcher government of the 1980's, which included the the events that became known as 'the arms to Iraq affair'. These events were the subject of The Scott Inquiry which was commissioned in 1992 and reported in 1996. Much of the report remains classified.

Arms-to-Iraq

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By 1986 Astra Explosives in Kent were working a phantom third shift to supply the contracts and the company’s accounts did not match the massive secret turnover. When MD Gerald James queried these strange goings on, he was ousted in a boardroom coup organised by Stephan Kock, an MI6 agent placed on the board by John Cuckney and MI6 to oversee Astra’s illegal contracts.

Close call

Noting a series of deaths (Gerald Bull, Alan Clark & David Kelly), Peter Eyre writes that "[Gerald James] had a brush with death at the end of last year but they got one of his relatives purely by accident."

In The Public Interest

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Gerald James published his version of the affair in his 1995 book In The Public Interest which is a devastating account of the Thatcher Government's involvement in the covert - and often illegal - arms trade. The flyleaf of the book states that it "rewrites the Thatcher years, revealing a political management structure in Britain today which makes a mockery of the Democratic process."

External Links

• JANCOM web site - a site dedicated to seeking a measure of genuine justice for Asil Nadir but which has a vast amount of documentation and information on the Arms-to-Iraq affair impinging on the The establishment's shabby treatment of Gerald James.