Payment of Kickbacks by Subcontractors and Purchasing System Weaknesses at Raytheon Company's Microwave and Tube Division, Waltham, Massachusetts

Three subcontractors admitted paying an estimated $125,000 in kickbacks to the buyer for the Raytheon Company, Microwave and Power Tube Division, Microwave Tube Operation, in return for purchase orders placed in support of negotiated Department of Defense (DOD) contracts awarded to Raytheon. The three subcontractors admitted paying kickbacks to the Raytheon buyer from about 1962, 1970, and 1971, respectively, until April 1975.