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Defence: Heseltine PS letter to No.10 ("Credit for Defence sales to India") ["Although the ECGD system appeared to be acceptable, clearly the normal terms applicable were not... Credit terms are clearly going to play an important part in our efforts to secure a major piece of the Indian defence market"] [declassified Jan 2014]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: PREM19/1186 f451
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Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 16pp
Themes: Industry, Public spending & borrowing, Trade, Foreign policy (USSR & successor states), Foreign policy (Asia), Foreign policy (development, aid, etc), Defence (general), British relations with France, British relations with the Soviet Union, British relations with the US