August 16, 2007 (LPAC)--Confirming charges published on this website, today's London Guardian reports that the UK Ministry of Defense (MoD) has given security passes to 38 BAE employees and officials, allowing them to come and go as they please in the MoD. The MoD won't disclose who has them, or why, claiming that would breach their privacy and security. However, one of them is known to be BAE's chief lobbyist, Julian Scopes, who formerly was private secretary to the Tory arms-sales minister Alan Clark. BAE has also hired former government officials such as former Defense Minister Michael Portillo, and Thatcher's chief foreign affairs advisor Charles Powell.

EIR and LPAC have pointed out in our previous coverage that the British aerospace/financial giant BAE and the British Defense Ministry are virtually indistinguishable.

http://www.larouchepac.com/packages/2007/06/12/bae-scandal-cheney-failed-his-mission.html

The disclosure of the building passes was made in a letter from the MOD to Norman Lamb, a Liberal Democrat MP, who said: "This demonstrates that there is far too close a relationship between the Ministry of Defence and BAE. This incestuous and potentially corrupting relationship must be brought to an end. BAE's lobbying muscle helped to bring an end to a major corruption inquiry, which is totally unacceptable."