Does the Rothschild 1971 'customer-contractor' quote check out against the canonical Palgrave Communications paper or the original HMSO report?

claim-rothschild-1971-report-mandated-customer-contractor-principle rests on the Para. II.6 quote — "applied R. & D. ... must be done on a customer-contractor basis. The customer says what he wants; the contractor does it (if he can); and the customer pays." The quote is attributed to Miles Parker's 2016 Palgrave Communications account, a Tier-2 source, which is fine on its face — but the copy the capture actually used is a PDF mirror on fbcoverup.com, a conspiracy-oriented host, not the canonical Palgrave Communications venue.

Why it matters. A load-bearing policy quote reaching the vault through a conspiracy-site mirror is a provenance smell, even when the underlying paper is reputable. A mirror can silently alter text, and the note asserts the exact wording of a real government report.

What would answer it.

• Retrieve Miles Parker, "The Rothschild report (1971) and the purpose of government funded R&D — a personal account," Palgrave Communications, 2016, at its canonical DOI / palgrave venue, and confirm the quote verbatim.
• Better still, check the wording against the original Rothschild Report (HMSO, Cmnd. 4814, 1971), Para. II.6, directly.
• Confirm the "Rothschild Bombshell" (New Scientist) and "Cat for All Pigeons" (Nature) headlines and the 1972-adopted / 1974-implemented dates.

On success, replace the source_url with the canonical venue, lift audit_status toward verified-verbatim, and consider promoting the note past seedling.