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10. Ibid.

11. Ibid.

12. U.S. News & World Report, 10/9/53.

13. Dun’s Business Month, February 1972.

14. SDB interview.

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15. Fortune, August 1958.

16. Drew Pearson, Washington Post, l/ll/62.

17. Pearson, Washington Post, l/10/62.

18. McCone oral history.

19. Eisenhower: The President, Stephen E. Ambrose, Simon and Schuster, 1984, 479.

20. Eisenhower to Bechtel, ll/5/58.

21. John L. Simpson oral history.

CHAPT ER TEN

The account of Bechtel’s involvement with the intelligence community is based on papers in the National Archives and the Library of Congress, many of which were recently declassified. It also draws upon the papers of Allen Dulles at the Princeton University Library; the papers of John L. Simpson at the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, and the papers of C. Stribling Snodgrass at the University of Wyoming. Of immense help too were interviews, some of them off the record, with former Bechtel and U.S. government officials who are familiar with Bechtel’s intelligence links.

I. Dispatch, Captain E. E. Roth, USN, to Leonard Parker, State Department, Near East Division, 7/14/45.

2. Catlin to Meloy, 5/18/48.

3. Ibid.

4. Borman to Meloy, 10/14/47.

5. Memorandum for Files, Subject: Demolition of U.S.-owned Refineries in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, 7/19/48.

6. Big Oil Man from Arabia, Ballantine, 1958.

7. Simpson to Dulles, 12/16/52.

8. Dulles to Simpson, 2/27/51.

9. Simpson to Dulles, 6/4/54.

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10. Simpson oral history.

11. Interview, Frank Jungers, May 1985.

12. Dulles to Simpson, 11 15/62.

13. New York Times, 3/22/67.

14. Messersmith to secretary of State, 8/27/42.

15. Bechtel to Suleiman, 10/1150.

16. Snodgrass to Sanger, 10/28/46.

17. Snodgrass to Bechtel, 7/6/51.

18. Bechtel to Snodgrass, 10/24/50.

CHAPTER ELEVEN

This account of the Bechtels’ family life and Steve junior’s rise to power is drawn from an interview w ith Steve junior as well as numerous off-the-record interview s with members of the Bechtel family.

1. Interview, Stephen D. Bechtel, Sr.

2. Interview, Stephen D. Bechtel, Jr., July 1984.

3. Ibid.

4. Ibid.

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

6. Fortune, November 1955.

CHAPTER TWELVE

l. Interview, Frank Jungers, May 1985.

2. Strategy and Negotiation for the International Corporation: Guidelines and Cases, John Fayerw eather and Ashok Kupoor, Ballinger Publishing Co., 1976, 89-120.

3. Ambassador’s Journal, John Kenneth Galbraith, Houghton Mifflin, 1969, 544.

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4. Financial Express, 3/3/65.

5. Off-the-record interview.

6. Off-the-record interview.

CHAPTER TH IRT E EN

1. Making Democracy Safe for Oil, Christopher T. Rand, Atlantic-Little, Brown, 1975, 253-54.

2. Off-the-record interview.

3. Interview, William C. Eveland, August 1984.

4. Interview, John L. Lynch, January 1986.

5. Ibid.

6. Making Democracy Safe, 273.

7. Libyan Sandstorm: The Complete Account of Qaddafi’s Revolution, John K. Cooley, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1982, 13-14.

CHAPTER FOURTE EN

This account of Henry Kearns’s activities at the ExportImport Bank and those of Stephen D. Bechtel, Sr., and the bank’s advisory committee is based in part on the Minutes of the Meeting of the Advisory Committee to the ExportImport Bank of the United States (1969-1974). These minutes were obtained through the F reedom of Information Act.

Also useful were interviews with Henry Kearns and other former bank officials, including Rosemary Marzan, the bank’s public affairs officer during the Nixon administration.

Many of the details of the Yakutsk project were made public during hearings of the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Multinational Corporations during the summer of 1974.

1. Engineering News Record, 2/21174.

2. Interview, John L. Lynch, January 1986.

3. Interview, Forbes Wilson, January 1985.

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4. Ibid.

5. The payments w ere first reported to me by a former McKinsey & Company management consultant who traveled extensively in Indonesia. They w ere corroborated by senior-level officers of both Pertamina and Bechtel.

6. Minutes, MAC, September 1969.

7. Minutes, MAC, February 1970.

8. Engineering News Record, 3/31/74.

9. Washington Post, 2/26/74.

10. Ibid. The reporter