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Lockheed bribery scandals
The Lockheed bribery scandals encompassed a series of bribes and contributions made by officials of U.S. aerospace company Lockheed from the late 1950s to the 1970s in the process of negotiating the sale of aircraft.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Lockheed Agrees to Pay Record Fine : Aerospace: Calabasas firm pleads guilty in connection with bribing an Egyptian politician )〕
The scandal caused considerable political controversy in West Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Japan. In the U.S. the scandal nearly led to the corporation's downfall, as it was already struggling due to the commercial failure of the L-1011 TriStar airliner.
==Background==
The U.S. Government had bailed out Lockheed in 1971, guaranteeing repayment of $195 million in bank loans to the company. The Government Emergency Loan Guarantee Board, set up to oversee the program, investigated whether Lockheed violated its obligations by failing to tell the board about foreign payments.〔(Time magazine ) August 18, 1975〕
In late 1975 and early 1976, a sub-committee of the U.S. Senate led by Senator Frank Church concluded that members of the Lockheed board had paid members of friendly governments to guarantee contracts for military aircraft.〔(Franz Josef Strauß (German language) )〕 In 1976, it was publicly revealed that Lockheed had paid $22 million in bribes to foreign officials〔 in the process of negotiating the sale of aircraft including the F-104 Starfighter, the so-called "Deal of the Century".〔(Lockheed F-104 Starfighter ) at militaryfactory.com, Retrieved August 29, 2009〕〔"In 1962 Lockheed Corporation made the deal of the century by selling West Germany three hundred and fifty F-104 Starfighters..." Paul Emil Erdman, ''The last days of America'': G.K. Hall, 1982 ISBN 0-8161-3349-2, p 24〕
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