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==Raytheon controversy== Allegations of [[bribery]] were made against Raytheon in 1995 in connection with its efforts to win a 1.4 [[1,000,000,000 (number)|billion]] US dollar [[radar]] contract from Brazil for the SIVAM project. SIVAM, the acronym for "System for Vigilance over the [[Amazon Basin|Amazon]]," was a complex radar [[surveillance]] system planned to be used to monitor the [[Amazon rainforest]], allegedly to curb the trafficking of [[illegal drugs|narcotics]] and to curb illegal [[logging]] or burning of the forest. Brazilian police wiretapped a telephone conversation between a special advisor to the [[Brazilian President]] [[Fernando Henrique Cardoso]], and Raytheon's operative in Brazil, Jose Afonso Assumpcão. According to transcripts published in the Brazilian national weekly ''[[Isto É]]'', when Assumpcão told Gomes dos Santos that Brazilian Senator Gilberto Miranda might block the Raytheon contract, Gomes dos Santos responded, "Damn, did you already pay this guy?". Gomes dos Santos and Brazil's aviation minister resigned because of allegations that this conversation suggested that bribes were paid.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1995-11-21-9511210226-story.html |title=U.S. Firm Denies Role in Brazil Bribery Tale|access-date=23 September 2021|website=Chicago Tribune|date=21 November 1995 }}</ref> Raytheon ultimately was awarded the contract after [[lobbying]] by the administration of U.S. President [[Bill Clinton]].{{citation needed|date=November 2023}}
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