| | Labor's tangle with Scotland Yard - National - www.smh.com.au |
 | | Leading public servants in the Treasury enlisted the help of Scotland Yard to try to torpedo secret negotiations by the Whitlam government for a $4 billion loan, 30-year-old documents reveal. |
 | | The executive council authorised the loan and the governor-general, Sir John Kerr, signed the minute on December 14, 1974, but the negotiations broke down and the government revoked the authority of Rex Connor, the minister for minerals and energy, to pursue it. |
 | | Hay called Dean back, saying that "discreet but most urgent inquiries to Scotland Yard appeared to be the only way we could now obtain information quickly which might lead us to conclude that the offer was not a genuine one". |
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