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Agents cannot be wished away?

Siddharth Varadarajan

ON BOARD PM'S SPECIAL AIRCRAFT: Against the backdrop of the recent FIR filed against the former Defence Minister, George Fernandes, and others in the Barak missile import deal, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said there was need for regulating the role of middlemen in defence deals in some way.

Replying to a question by journalists, Dr. Singh declined to comment on what he said were "specific cases." "But it does turn out that the assumption that one can do without agents — I think that does require some reappraisal. If agents cannot be done away with, it is much better that we should know who the agents are, or processes are. I think registering, or some variant of the mechanism should be explored."

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