My article below detailed how some have done very well out of the war, particularly British Aerospace, with their unique hold over New Labour, their enforcer Jack Straw and his henchman Lord Taylor of Blackburn.
http://www.craigmurray.co.uk/archives/2007/08/theres_good_mon.html#comments
I noted that since the BAE scandal, their name had been dropped from Lord Scumbag’s extensive list of paid consultancies and directorships in the House of Lords’ Register of Members’ Interests, but postulated that some of his many other contracts might be from/for BAE.
With hust an hour’s googling, one of us (who will be known as “V”) has sent me the following:
Here’s the list of companies Lord Taylor of Blackburn has a registered interest with.
Non-parliamentary consultant
Adviser, Initial Electronic Security Systems Limited
Adviser, Electronic Data Systems Limited
Adviser, Drax Power Limited
Adviser, Experian Limited
Adviser, NPL Estates
Adviser, Lucent Technologies
Adviser, Fujitsu Services
Adviser, Canatxx Energy Ventures Limited
Adviser, LogicaCMG UK Limited
Adviser, BT plc
President, Wrens Hotel Group
Remunerated directorships Non-executive Director, A Division Holdings Limited
Non-executive Director, Eisis Limited
1: Initial Electronic Security Systems Limited
Initial Electronic Security Systems was purchased by UTC Fire & Security in July, 2007
The following is from the news section of their own website:
http://www.iess.co.uk/news05.html
Monday, August 13, 2007
Flying High
High flyers Initial Fire Systems flew into action when BAE SYSTEMS awarded the fire company ‘Phase one’, the first stage in a complete refurbishment programme of fire protection at the defence manufacturer’s huge Warton facility.
The 750 acre site, where over 9000 people are employed is a final assembly site for BAE SYSTEMS – a major international company and one of this country’s leading exporters. Warton leads the world in systems integration and engineering for military aircraft, such as the Nimrod, Tornado, Eurofighter and Harrier.
The contract, one of the largest fire installations undertaken by Initial Fire’s Blackburn branch, involved the design and installation of 31 smoke detection and fire extinguishing systems, monitored and controlled by the British Aerospace Fire Station on sophisticated PC based NT graphics software, again designed and installed by Initial Fire Systems.
2: Electronic Data Systems Limited
From BAE’s website news archive:
http://www.baesystems.com/Newsroom/NewsReleases/2003/press_07012003.html
BAE SYSTEMS Awarded Major Sub-Contract For Royal Navy Messaging Enhancements
07 Jan 2003
BAE Systems C4ISR has been awarded a major sub-contract by EDS Defence within the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence’s Naval Afloat Messaging Coherency (NAMC) programme. This will provide a coherent formal military messaging facility to Royal Navy vessels at sea and enable access to Information Exchange services provided by the shore-based Defence Message Handling Systems (Navy) [DMHS(N)], which was also supplied by BAE Systems.
BAE Systems will be supplying its Summit-iX Information Exchange software product to EDS Defence for incorporation into the NAMC solution. Summit-iX is also employed within the DMHS(N) and is currently being delivered to the Royal Navy’s new Type 45 destroyers.
Summit-iX represents the United Kingdom’s first implementation of NATO’s new messaging standard STANAG 4406 Edition 1 and, to ensure inter-operability with ships and submarines using the existing older standard, features the proven BAE Systems’ MPS2000 product integrated within it.
NAMC is a key element in the process of rolling out a consistent information infrastructure into the Royal Navy. Supporting the creation of network-enhanced capability, it will be fitted to current Royal Navy aircraft carriers, Type 42 destroyers, Type 23 and Type 22 frigates, and to some Royal Fleet Auxiliaries, replacing a number of legacy systems. This will allow the Royal Navy to gain the benefits of coherence with its existing systems, planned future systems and under-pinning shore based support infrastructures.
The BAE Systems C4ISR Communications & Defence Infrastructure team based at Portsmouth will be supporting EDS Defence’s activities, which are focused on completing fleet-wide rollout by the middle of 2007.
BAE Systems awarded contract for new Royal Navy Warfare Operator Training programme
http://www.baesystems.com/Newsroom/NewsReleases/2006/press_13012006.html
13 Jan 2006 | Ref. 014/2005
BAE Systems has been awarded a contract by the Defence Logistics Organisation (DLO) for the Maritime Composite Training System (MCTS) Phase 1 programme, valued at approximately ‘100M.
This will provide the Royal Navy with a new shore-based Warfare Operator Training capability to meet the needs of the Type 45 Ready for Training later this decade and current in-service surface platforms.
MCTS offers a more flexible approach to training than is currently available and supports the aims of the Navy’s Versatile Maritime Training concept. Flexibility is achieved through the use of generic Classroom Based Skills Training for early training requirements ensuring that allocation to platform type can be deferred to the latest possible point in the training pipeline. High functional fidelity training is used where platform specific Individual Skills and Warfare Team Training are required. MCTS facilities will be situated at both the Maritime Warfare School Collingwood and the Devonport Waterfront.
Captain Mark Darlington, FLEET Assistant Chief of Staff (Naval Training and Education), said: “The SEABRIDGE partners bring a unique blend of expertise to this project. Their combined experience in the field of maritime operations and the training needed to support it, together with the already proven hardware and simulation software will better assist the RN produce capable, motivated and highly trained sailors primed to take their new skills into a highly demanding operational environment. The signing of this contract represents a very important step in bringing to life the concept of Versatile Maritime Training to support the Royal Navy of the 21st Century. The successful delivery of the MCTS project is vital to both individual and collective team performance.’
BAE Systems Integrated System Technologies (Insyte) leads the SEABRIDGE team with its partners Aerosystems International, EDS, Flagship Training, MDA and Serco.
Clive Richardson, Managing Director, BAE Systems Integrated System Technologies (Insyte), said: ‘BAE Systems, with our partners in the SEABRIDGE consortium, is delighted to have been selected to deliver the Maritime Composite Training System. We have used our deep experience in maritime operations to develop a cutting-edge, versatile training environment for Royal Navy personnel to develop and practice their skills. BAE Systems regards MCTS as an early step in the strategy to deliver coherent, timely and effective training to meet all the Royal Navy’s emerging requirements and to form the foundation of realisable joint training’.
Work on MCTS has started and facilities will be situated at the Maritime Warfare School Collingwood, Portsmouth and the Devonport Waterfront, Plymouth.
3: Fujitsu Services
Eurofighter Typhoon
We are working with Bae Systems and CASA on the European Eurofighter programme and Ground Support Systems for the aircraft. Fujitsu’s UK, Spanish, German and Italian arms are providing fixed and deployable IT infrastructures to their airforces. These run both engineering and mission support systems essential to the aircraft’s operation.
Source (http://www.fujitsu.com/uk/industries/defence/experience/)
Also Fujitsu seem to have been working with BAE on some sort of software for Joint Operations/battlefield situational awareness. I can’t really work out what this is apart from its military, its communications and it’s something to do with BAE, take a look at the pdf and see if it makes any sense to you.
http://www.fujitsu.com/downloads/EU/uk/industries/defence/UKIT36-openJOP.pdf
4: LogicaCMG UK Limited
This is an old news story from BAE’s own archives.
http://www.baesystems.com/Newsroom/NewsReleases/2002/press_06062002.html
BAE SYSTEMS awards contract for security evaluation of royal navy’s type 45 destroyer communications system
06 Jun 2002
BAE Systems has awarded a contract for the security evaluation of the Royal Navy’s Type 45 Destroyer’s Fully Integrated Communications System (FICS) to Logica UK Ltd of Leatherhead, Surrey, United Kingdom, acting in the role of a CommerciaL Evaluation Facility (CLEF).
This represents a further significant phase in the fulfilment of the FICS programme – in February 2001, the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence awarded a contract for the development and installation of the FICS to Thales Communications Ltd. The latter is working in partnership with the BAE Systems C4ISR’s Communications & Defence Infrastructure team, based at Christchurch, United Kingdom, and Raytheon Inc, USA, to fulfil the requirement.
The contract award for security evaluation for Type 45 FICS follows closely upon the completion of the security clearance of the integrated internal and external communications systems being installed by Thales, in partnership with the BAE Systems team, on the Royal Navy’s new Landing Platform Dock (Replacement) platforms, HMS Albion and HMS Bulwark.
The contract complements Logica UK Ltd’s other commitments within the Type 45 programme. These include providing security evaluation services on the Data Transfer and Combat Management Systems, and supplying consultancy services for security evaluation to the BAE Systems Prime Contract Office.
5: Non-executive Director, A Division Holdings Limited
From their own website:
http://www.adivisiongroup.com/content.asp?did=23765
Our history
The establishment of the A Division Group of companies was the culmination of many years of expertise and experience in education ,health and information technology on the part of the core members of our team, which resulted in the formation of the A Division Group in London, England in April 2001.
Although the Group has wide ranging international activities ,interests and operations and indeed, global ambitions, the Groups primary activities are centred upon the educational field, where A Division Learning Systems Limited is a primary sub-contractor to BAE Systems plc ,one of the World’s leading Defence contractors, for the delivery of education based projects worldwide.
To date A Division Learning Systems Limited has successfully delivered and continues to support IT based educational systems and programmes ‘ including Smart Learning and CAD-CAM, in Brunei, Kuwait, Malaysia and Thailand.
6: Non-executive Director, Eisis Limited
Eisis Limited is a subsidiary of EDS Electronic Data Systems Limited which owns 50% of Eisis
(source http://www.transnationale.org/companies/eds_electronic_data_systems.php)
This is the only thing I could find about Eisis, couldn’t confirm it from any other source as yet.
As Rector of the University of Dundee, one thing that shocked me was the way that New Labour have packed their apparatchiks on to University Courts (as on every other Board and Quango in the land.)
http://www.craigmurray.co.uk/archives/2007/04/dundee_universi.html
It therefore comes as no surprise to find that Lord Scumbag of Death, aka Lord Taylor of Blackburn, a man doing very nicely out of the war, is a life member of the Court of the University of Lancaster – where I am now an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Law. I think I know some of the direction my research might take.
I'm sure if you looked harder, you may even find this swine would have a hand in the toilet cleaning services of BAe.
Spuerb work Craig and of course, "V"
Craig,
An interesting piece here relating to the BAE arms deals and concerning David Waters, who prosecuted in the fertiliser bomb plot trial –
"Along with the Denton case, which protected the Metropolitan Police from prying eyes, Waters also had a key role in burying the Jonathan Aitken-Saudi bribery scandal, which humiliated a Tory minister and dented British relations with Saudi Arabia and, worst of all, threatened to blow the lid off the al-Yamamah bribery nexus which would have implicated swathes of the Tory party along with the elite of the arms industry.
The trial of Jonathan Aitken resulted from his own hubris. He was Tory Minister for Defense Procurement in the mid 1990s, a post that with hindsight could be re-christened the "minister for doling out the BAE slush-fund" but that is, unfortunately, another story. After the Guardian published details of a secret meeting between Aitken, his Saudi business associate Said Ayas and representatives of the Saudi Royal Family, Aitken sued the paper for alleging that Prince Mohammed of the desert autocracy had paid his ?1,000 per night hotel bill at the Paris Ritz.
The owner of the Ritz at the time, millionaire Mohammed al-Fayed, also alleged that "?1 million in cash was shared out at the meeting with Mark Thatcher and others" according to the Guardian. That would seem plausible, and scandalous, given what we are steadily learning about BAE, the British government and the Saudi royal family.
As Said Ayas himself said after charges against him were surprisingly dropped in 1999, during the time of the Ritz meeting, he and Aitken had been "negotiating secret commissions from British arms firms keen to sell their wares to Saudi Arabia." As the Guardian reported:
The money was to have been paid into a secret Swiss bank account, number 556.862 MU. Simultaneously, Ayas's friend Jonathan Aitken, in his formal capacity as minister for defence procurement, was lobbying for those very same arms deals to go through. The proposition to the arms companies was simple: "You pay several million pounds of your profits into this Swiss bank account and my Saudi connections will get you the arms deal". Much of the money would be passed to Prince Mohammed, as a reward for him using his influence with his father King Fahd to agree multi-million pound contracts for new weapon systems.
This represented a potential entry point for prosecutors to rake over the (various) slush funds linking Saudi oil money, British arms firms and politicians on the take. Here was a man arguing after his case had been dropped that massive corruption had been occuring with a British minister present. However, the CPS deemed that "It is fair to say between 1992-95, there is evidence to show that he was a hard-working and conscientious minister" as he dropped the case against Ayas and pursued the much slighter perjury charge against Aitken for lying to court repeatedly about his Ritz stay.
Aitken had admitted that a witness statement supposedly in the hand of Ayas (and which shed light on the arms dealing) was actually his own, and the CPS agreed – even though Aitken had been publicly outed as a practiced liar.
As investigative reporters Luke Harding, David Leigh and David Pallister observed in their book on the Aitken scandal, "lawyers for the Crown Prosecution Service took the surprise decision to drop charges against Said Ayas. This meant that Said would not now be tried at the Old Bailey. The CPS had accepted Aitken's claim that he alone had written Ayas's lying libel trial statement. To the dismay of the original defendants, this meant none of the murky background surrounding the trial's collapse would be explored in a court of law."
The man who explained this in court and to the British press was the CPS' senior treasury counsel – David Waters."
http://julyseventh.co.uk/crevice/entrapment-of-om…