Rajiv Gandhi entrepreneur for the Swedish aircraft firm, say cable
Posted on: 08/Apr/2013 11:58:15 AM
A 1975 cable from the US Embassy in New Delhi has claimed that former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was an ‘entrepreneur’ in the Swedish company Saab – Scania and was involved in the transaction between the company and India involving Viggen fighter aircraft. The cable has also claimed that there is ‘no additional information to either refute or confirm the above information’.
The cable was published by The Hindu in association with Wikileaks, and read, ‘Swedish emboff has informed us that main Indian negotiator with the Swedes on Viggen at New Delhi end has been Mrs. Gandhi`s oiler (sic) son, Rajiv Gandhi. Latter`s only association with the aircraft industry (to our knowledge) has been as a pilot for Indian Airlines and this is the first time we have heard his name as entrepreneursr’.’
