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34n

Graubard, Seymour, 194-96

Federal Trade Commission (FTC), 175,

Gray, Prent, 74

177

Gray’s Harbor, 44

Ferris, Gwin, 119

Great Britain:

Financial Express, 137

IBI operations eyed by, 89-90

Finletter, Thomas, 75, 99

Saudi oil and, 82

Firestone, Leonard K., 14-15

Suez Canal tolls collected by, 85

Fischer, Peter, 186-87

wartime construction needs of, 56-58

Flanigan, Peter M., 14-15, 174n

Great San Francisco Earthquake, 22

Fluor Corporation, 136, 220

Greenspan, Alan, 216

Flying Boxcar transports, 108-9

FMC, 137, 138, 157

Habib, Philip, 221 n

Follis, R. G., 81

Hafstad, Lawrence R., 103

Ford, Gerald R., 14-15, 172, 215

Haig, Alexander, 15, 173n, 221, 223n

Arab Boycott and, 184-85, 187-90,

Halaby, Najeeb, 15

223

Haldeman, H. R., 15 5

attempted assassination of, 182

Hammer, Armand, 142

favors to Bechtel from, 16

background of, 143-44

nuclear power promoted by, 203-5

Libyan activities of, 143-45, 148-50,

Weinberger and, 181-82, 213

169

Ford, Henry, 26

Soviet projects of, 160-63, 228

Ford, Henry, II, 128n

Hanauer, Stephen, 199-200

Ford Foundation, 128n

Hangari, Ibrahim, 149-50

Foreign Operations Administration,

Harriman, W Averell, 137

u.s., 105

Hart, Parker T. (“Pete”), 190n

Foreign Service, U.S., 109

Hartley, Fred L., 15

Forrestal, James, 75, 98

Hartman, Arthur, 187-88

Forster, Arnold, 195

Hassler, Donald, 237-38

Fort Douglas, 39

Hay, Elizabeth, 72n-73n

Fortune, 37n,61,69

Hayes, Peter, 158n-59n

Fortune 500, 12

Haynes, Harold, 225-26, 232

Freeport Minerals, 157

Haynsworth, Clement, 166

Friedman, Milton, 238

Hayward, Thomas, 15

Fulton, Hugh, 65

Health, Education and Welfare

Furth, Alan C., 15

Department (HEW), U.S., 174, 178

265

FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES

Hearst, Patty, 235

78n, 95, 119, 157-59, 237

Hearst, William Randolph, 21

Industrial Engineering, 66

Hearst, William Randolph, Jr., 15

Industrial Indemnity, 25, 72n-73n

heavy water storage plants, l 0 l

Industrial Workers of the World, 39

Helms, Richard, l74n

Ingram, William, 193n

Joshua Hendry Iron Works, 96, 110

Inter-Continental Hotels, 15, 106

Herodotus, 42

International Atomic Energy Agency

Heston, Charlton, 15

(IAEA), 227

Hindmarsh, V G. (“Heine”), 54

International Bechtel, Inc. {IBI), 84,

Hitler, Adolf, 56, 74n

124, 145, 237

Hodel, Donald, 227

Arab Boycott and, 185

Hoey, Henry, 26

Arabs and workers mistreated by,

Hogan and Hartson, 189

86-87

Holden, Paul, 131

intelligence activities of, 114-15

Hollingsworth, Robert L., 174n

Saudi projects of, 85-92, 95-96, 121

Homestead, 106-7

International Business Council, 216

Hoover, Herbert, 74

International Business Machines (IBM),

Bechtel’s influence on, 12

78n

Boulder Dam and, 30-31, 39-40, 43

Bechtel’s work for, 16, 106-7

Hoover Commission on Intelligence, 156

International Wheat Conference, 93n

Hoover Dam, see Boulder Dam

Interstate Highway sy stem, 112

Horton, J. K. (“Jack”), 14-16, 76-77

Iran, 95-96, 146

Hoskinson, Samuel, 214

oil refineries built in, 96

House of Representatives, see Congress,

Soviet threat to, 113, 115-16, 122-23

U.S.; Senate, U.S.

Iraq, 79n, 95-96

Houston Space Center, 152

Iraq Petroleum, 96

Howe, C. D., 79

irrigation projects, 23

Hull, Cordell {Bechtel vice president),

Israel, 79n, 214, 221

204

Arab Boycott of, 183-90, 192-96,

Hull, Cordell {Secretary of State), 120,

197, 209, 223

204

Arab oil-storage tanks bombed by, 114

Hussein I, King ofJordan, 124

hydrogen bomb, 13-14, 102, 109n

Hyundai Construction, 209-10

Jackson, Basil, 96

Jackson, Henry, 161-62

ibn Saud, Abdul Aziz, King of Saudi

Jacobs, Fred, 170

Arabia, 82-83, 114

Japan, 198, 205, 227

contracts awarded to IBI by, 85-86,

Pearl Harbor attacked by, 58, 59, 61

88-91

Philippines attacked by, 59-60

Saudi pipeline operation and, 84-86,

Javits, Jacob, 184

88

Jebsen, Jens, 118

Ickes, Harold L., 120

Johnson, Lyndon B., 106, 152

Alaska pipeline and, 62-65

Johnston, Marguerite, 67

on Boulder Dam construction, 40-42

Johnstone, Clint, 234-35, 237

Saudi oil and, 83

Johnstone, Shana Bechtel, 234-35, 237

Idris al Sanussi, King of Libya, 144-45,

Joint American-Israeli Chamber of

149-50

Commerce, 185

India, 12, 169

Jones, Howard, 119

atomic bomb detonated by, 202-3,

Joppa atomic-energy plant, 10 5-6, 167—

206

168

Bechtel’s fertilizer project for, 136-37

Jubail, Bechtel’s construction project in,

nuclear plants in, 199-203, 228

12, 78n, 188n, 208-9, 211

Indonesia, Bechtel’s operations in, 12,

Jungers, Frank, 118, 136, 192-93

266

INDEX

Justice Department, U.S., 153, 162-63

Komes, Jerome W, 73, 76, 77, 98, 133,

Arab Boycott and, 184-90, 192, 223

171, 211

in Korean power plant construction,

105

Kahn, Felix:

in Libyan operations, 145-47, 150

Boulder Dam construction and,

Korea, Republic of (South), 105,

31-34, 37n, 38

l 58n-59n

in shipbuilding, 57

Korean War, 13, 99, 122

Six Companies described by, 44n

Kuwait, 95-96

Kaiser, Edgar F., Jr., 13, 14-15, 44n

Kuwait International Investment

Kaiser, Henry J., 78n, 119

Company, 184

in aircraft building, 66-67, 108

Kuwait Oil Company, 95-96

background of, 26-27

Boulder Dam construction and, 15,

Labor Department, U.S., 165-68, 212

28,29-30,32-34,38,40,43

Boulder Dam construction and, 39-40

Broadway Tunnel construction and, 51

Ladies Band, 19

Dad Bechtel and, 26-28, 29-30

LaGuardia Airport, 62-63

independent ways of, 44n

Laird, Melvin, 217

money lost by, 76

Lakeside Foundation, l28n

in nuclear power, 102, 110

Land, Emory S., 58-59

phy sical appearance of, 28

Lawrence, ErnestO., 102-3

in pipeline construction, 28

Lawrence, T. E., 84

in road construction, 27-28, 29-30,

Lawrence-Livermore Laboratories, 103

32

Lazard Freres & Company, 184

in shipbuilding, 60-61, 70

Lear Petroleum, 220

Kaiser-Fraser Corporation, 108

Lebanon, 95-96

Kearns, Henry:

Lehman Brothers, 137

background of, 154-55

Leventhal, Martin, Jr., 184

Bechtel and, 154, 156�57, 159-60,

Levi, Edward, 185-90

164, 165

Lias Liete, Antonio, 160

conflict of interest charges against,

Libeco, 146-49

163-64

Libya, 142, 184

Eximbank appointment of, 154,

Bechtel’s intelligence activities in, 118

155-57, 159-61, 163-64, 202,

Bechtel’s operations in, 12, 143,

226n

145-51, 152, 169

international nuclear power supported

Hammer’s operations in, 143-45,

by, 160

148-51, 169

Soviet project financing and, 161

Life, 98-99

Kelly, J. B., 83

Linkletter, Art, 15

Kennecott Copper, 220

Links Club, 78-79

Kennedy, John F., 111, 138, 144, 155,

Littlefield, Edmund W, 14-15, 34n,

220

232

Kennedy, Richard T., 227

Llewellyn Iron Works, 52

Kent, E. Earl, 20 ln

Lloyd, Earle G.,