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hearings w ere conducted during the last week of September I946.

I. Fortune, September I943.

2. Interview, Stephen D. Bechtel, July I984.

3. Fortune, op. cit.

4. Investigation of the National Defense Program.

5. A Builder and His Family, 64.

6. Ibid. , 67.

7. Ibid.

8. Interview, Robert L. Bridges, July I984.

9. SDB interview

I 0. U. S. Special Committee Investigating the National Defense Program, October I943.

II. The Canol Project, Finnie.

I2. New York Post Syndicate, 7/22/46.

13. New York Post Syndicate, 7/26/46.

14. Ibid.

I5. SDB interview.

I6. Bridges interview.

I7. J. McEany interview with John McCone, 4/28/4 3.

I8. Ibid.

19. Letter, Marguerite Johnston to Mr. Johnson, 3/5/44.

20. Interview, George P. Alexander, February I987.

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21. McEany McCone interview.

22. Alexander v. BechtelM£one-Parsons.

23. National Defense Program investigations.

CHAPT E R S IX

The account of Stephen Bechtel’s hiatus after World War II, the formation of Bechtel BrothersMcCone and his reemergence as the head of the newly formed Bechtel Corporation is based largely on an interview with Robert L. Bridges and company records.

John L. Simpson’s involvement with the J. Henry Schroder Bank, his initial meeting with John Foster Dulles, his wartime activities and his coming to work for Bechtel are detailed in the John L. Simpson oral history at the Bancroft Library at Berkeley and in Federal Bureau of Investigation files obtained through the Freedom of Information Act.

Steve Bechtel’s postwar business philosophy and his dealings with James Black and Jack Horton are based on interviews with Bechtel, Jerome Komes and Robert Bridges. Details of the Transmountain Pipeline Deal were obtained largely from the letters and papers of C. Stribling Snodgrass which are on file at the University of Wyoming.

Bechtel’s role in helping to found the Stanford Research Institution (SRI) and his company’s extensive support of that organization are based on SRI papers and annual reports.

l. Interview, Robert L. Bridges, July 1984.

2. Ibid.

3. Ibid.

4. John L. Simpson oral history.

5. Ibid.

6. Letter, Stevenson to Simpson, 8/25/45.

7. Interview, Jerome Komes, July 1984.

8. Interview, Stephen D. Bechtel, July 1984.

9. Komes interview.

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10. Bridges interview.

11. SDB interview.

12. Letter from Sid Blair, president Bechtel Canada Ltd., to SDB, 12/28/50.

13. Fortune, May 1958.

CH APTER S EVEN

The account of Bechtel’s activities in Saudi Arabia from 1943 through 1951 is based largely upon State Department files in the National Archives.

1. The Kingdom: Arabia & the House of Saud, Robert Lacey, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1981, 233-34.

2. Arabia, the Gulf and the West, J. B. Kelly, Basic Books, 1980, 255.

3. Dispatch, J. Rives Childs to secretary of State, 12/3/47.

4. Dispatch, Childs to secretary of State, 2/17/47.

5. Bechtel Briefs, May 194 7.

6. Dispatch, F rancis E. Meloy to Division of Near Eastern Affairs, 9/29/48.

7. Memorandum, American Consulate in Dharan to American Delegation at Jeddah, 6/28/47.

8. Dispatch, Parker T. Hart to secretary of State, 4/13/49.

9. Dispatch, Childs to secretary of State, 2/21149.

10. Ibid.

11. Dispatch, Childs to secretary of State, 8/4/49.

12. Ibid.

13. Dispatch, Childs to secretary of State, 3/5/49.

14. Letters, Childs to SDB, 12/9/49; to John Rodgers, 12/19/49.

15. Dispatch, Childs to secretary of State, 9/7/49.

16. Ibid.

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CHAPTER EIGHT

l. Interview, Stephen D. Bechtel, July 1984.

2. Fortune, May 1958.

3. I.F. Stone’s Weekly, 11/7/60.

4. Interview, Jerome Komes, July 1984.

5. Ibid.

6. John L. Simpson oral history.

7. Life, July 28, 1958.

8. John A. McCone oral history, Dwight D. Eisenhower Library.

9. Ibid.

CHAPTER NINE

l. Interview, W Kenneth Davis, August 1984.

2. Ibid.

3. Ibid.

4. Bechtel News, February 1950.

5. Fortune, August 1958.

6. Speech given before the U.N. General Assembly, 12/8/53.

7. Interview, Stephen D. Bechtel, July 1984.

8. Interview, Robert L. Bridges, July 1984.

9.