Trying to discern the problems Ferranti has encountered on its ever-so-secret miltary contracts is a hopeless task, as the Financial Times makes clear: the paper says that the International Signal unit has traditionally had two major Middle Eastern customers, known as Customer One and Customer Two, one thought to be a government, the other a consortium buying for a government, the governments in question being those of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, though which is Whk! is unknown; a third m Korean government – but to underline the extent of the secrecy, there have also been suggestions that the current unspecified problems have arisen in either Nigeria or Pakistan.
