SECRET UK EYES A
ahead for the financial targetting of these two countries has now been agreed. The List's priorities have been formally reviewed
twice during 1989 and several amendments were agreed by the OOACG which has been at pains to avoid "debasing the currency". The current edition of the List is at Annex B.
SERVICE ATTACHES AND ADVISERS
44. The current deployment of attachés and advisers is at Annex
C.
MILITARY ASSISTANCE AND TRAINING
45.
Our Military Assistance programme has continued to
accomplish vital aims in support of the Government's defence and
foreign policies, and as a crucial adjunct to Defence Sales. In
its 3 main forms loan service personnel, short term training and advisory teams, and foreign and Commonwealth training in the
UK its volume and variety are largely unchanged, constituting a
wide projection of influence out of all proportion to its cost,
and promoting a climate for successful sales. A summary of
military assistance activities is shown on the chart at Annex D.
46. A total of ..... loan service personnel form teams in 33
countries worldwide, together with a further
RAF personnel
on secondment to Saudi Arabia. Short-term training teams of all
kinds are despatched worldwide to answer a variety of calls for
British expertise. During 1989 a total of
short-term teams in
personnel formed
countries; a recent and notable
development has been the export of staff training to Uganda,
Botswana and Zimbabwe. Despite the perceived high cost of UK-
based training, some 5,000 overseas students attended UK military
courses in 1988/89, amounting to some 45,000 student/weeks.
This represents a slight overall increase over last year, but
maintains the decline in non-NATO training which has become characteristic of the past few years.
SECRET UK EYES A
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