Richard Applegate
Lieutenant General Richard Applegate CB, OBE, is a retired British Army officer.
In his last military appointment he was the first Chief of Materiel (Land) in the Defence Equipment and Support organisation and a member of the leadership board of the British Army for 3 years, latterly as Quartermaster General. Applegate left the UK armed forces in 2010.[1]
Applegate was appointed chairman of Elbit Systems UK in May 2011.[2]
Sunday Times sting operation
In 2012, Applegate was one of a number of retired senior army officers targeted in a sting operation by Sunday Times journalists posing as representatives of a Korean drone manufacturer.[3]
Applegate was reportedly involved in a campaign to secure a £500 million contract for Israeli arms firm Elbit Systems.[4] The Sunday Times reported:
- He confided that he used Westminster Connection, a discreet lobbying firm with Israeli links, as a "firebreak" to ensure "that my fingerprints weren't over any of it". It could gain access to anyone "from the Prime Minister down". He said the firm, based in Victoria and co-owned by Scott Hamilton, a former Conservative staffer, had used its links with Conservative Friends of Israel (CFI) to persuade MPs in the Commons to assist him in his campaign.[4]
Affiliations
- Elbit Systems UK - chairman
- Design Blue/d30 Ltd - director
- Ferranti Technologies - director
- UAV Tactical Systems Ltd - director
- Eagle Strategic Consulting - managing director.
- Newton Europe - senior adviser
- Atkins - senior adviser
- Hewlett-Packard Defence - senior adviser
- Renaissance Strategic Advisors - senior adviser[5]
Notes
- ↑ Heropreneurs appoints distinguished soldier and businessman as patron, Heropreneurs, accessed 14 October 2012.
- ↑ Lt.Gen (Ret.) Dick Applegate appointed Chairman of Elbit Systems UK, Helihub, 13 May 2011.
- ↑ Galloping Greed of the old warhorses, Insight, Sunday Times, 14 October 2012, pp.13-15.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Secret campaign 'secured £500m', Insight, Sunday Times, 14 October 2012.
- ↑ Heropreneurs appoints distinguished soldier and businessman as patron, Heropreneurs, accessed 14 October 2012.
