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  The Chess Master  |  Originally aired December 3, 2008 on CBC-TV
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The Chess Master (2008)

the fifth estate reveals exclusively that sworn testimony before a Parliamentary committee contained manipulation and lies. In 2007, expectations were high that testimony would finally unlock the mysteries of the Airbus scandal. In The Chess Master, reporter Linden MacIntyre shows how Karlheinz Schreiber devised a gambit to trap some of the witnesses and set the course for the next chapter of this story.

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About the Airbus Affair
AirbusFor more than a decade, the fifth estate has investigated rumours and allegations surrounding the 1988 sale of 34 Airbus A-320 jets to Air Canada and the mysterious dealmaker, Karlheinz Schreiber.
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