Friends in High Places: The Bechtel Story : The Most Secret Corporation and How It Engineered the Wo by Laton Mccartney (readict .txt) 📗

22, 23

Khaled bin Abdullah bin Abdel-Rahrnan

Lodge, Henry Cabot, 99

al Saud, Prince of Saudi Arabia, 210

Loesh and Osborne Motor Company, 154

Killian, Lou, 117

Loevinger, Lee, 189-90, 192

Kishi Nobosuke, 155

London, Jack, 21, 64

Kissinger, Henry, 14-15, 172-73, 198,

Long, Augustus (“Gus”), 138-39, 157

203, 206, 238

Look, 140

Arab Boycott and, 188-89, 194

Loomis, Francis B., 82

Klamath River Highway, 26

Lynch, John L. (“Jack”), 149, 171-72, Knowland, William, 98

180

267

FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES

Philips Electronics, 209-10

Broadway Tunnel construction and,

Pickens, T. Boone, 220

50-51

Post, A. Alan, 176

Reed, Philip D., 14-15

President’s Productivity Commission, 168

Regan, Donald T. , 184

press corps, 168, 198-99, 214

Reinsch, Harry, 224-25, 230n

Arab Boycott and, 189-90

Republican National Finance

Bechtel’s economic problems and,

Committee, 154-55

231-33

Rhee, Syngman, 105

Bechtel’s privacy and, 12-13, 17

Ribicoff, Abraham, 104, 193

on Bechtel’s violation of conflict of

Richmond Belt Railroad, 21

interest laws, 190-91

Rickover, Hyman, 107, 110

on Boulder Dam construction, 36,

Riyadh International Airport, 209, 211—

37n, 40

212

Eisenhower’s candidacy announced to,

Roach, Alden G., 95

99-100

British ship construction and, 56-58

on Jubail project, 208

road building:

on nuclear power, 206-7, 225

Bechtel’s contracts for, 26, 27-28

on Savannah affair, 110

Kaiser’s contracts for, 27-28, 29-30,

Shultz and, 13n, 219-20, 221-22

32

Steve senior interviewed by, 164

Rockefeller, David, 238

Steve senior’s pedestrian killing covered

Rockefeller, Nelson, 177

by, 47-48

Rock Island and Pacific Railroad

on Willow Run abuses, 67, 69

Company, 20

Pressler, Larry, 222-23

Rogers, John, 90-92

Proxmire, William, 163

Rogers, William P., 198

Public Services Commission, Miss., 227

Roosevelt, Franklin D., 34n, 56, 203-4

Public Utilities Commission (PUC),

Boulder Dam construction and, 40-42

Calif., 215

Roosevelt, Kermit, 122-23

Roosevelt, Theodore, 122-23

Rosendahl, Van, 84, 91, 124

Qaddafi, Muhammar al-, 12, 17,

Rosenthal, Benjamin, 193-94

150

Rosenthal, Douglas E., 193

Qasim refinery, 230

Rosenthal Amendment, 193-94

Qatar, 238

Ross, Leonard, 206

Quenon, James, 225-26

Sadat, Anwar al-, 188

Radio Free Asia (RFA), 119

Safire, William, 214

Ramsey, Nonie Bechtel, 234-35

San Francisco, Calif., 21-22, 25

Ramsey, Sheldon, 235

San Francisco Examiner, 21, 219

Ras Tanura, 113

Sanger, Richard, 121-22

Ray, Dixie Lee, 206

Sanifold Manufacturing Company, 25

Reagan, Ronald, 14, 17, l59n, l73n,

Sante Fe Railroad, 21

238

Sarbanes, Paul, 223

favors to Bechtel from, 16

Saudi Arabia, 80, 146, 167

1980 campaign of, 213-16, 225-26

Bechtel’s intelligence activities in,

nuclear power promoted by, 225-28,

113-15, 118, 121-22, 124

229-30

Bechtel’s lobbying activities on behalf

Shultz and, 215-18, 221-22, 223

of, 92, 222-23

Weinberger and, 177, 214, 216-18

Bechtel’s operations in, 12, 78n,

Reclamation Department, U.S.:

81-8� 85-9�95-9� 121, l88n,

Boulder Dam construction and,

208-12, 222, 230

30-32, 35-36

British oil concessions in, 82

270

INDEX

Israel boycotted by, 183, 190, 195

in Treasury Department, 169, 172,

pipeline construction in, 8 3-88, 121

178

railroad construction in, 84-86, 88,

Weinberger and, 174-75, 177-79,

91

181, 212-13, 217-18

sale of AWACS to, 222

Shultz, Helena (“Obie”) O’Brien, 170

U.S. oil concessions in, 82-83, 85

Siam Kraft, 155, 163-64

Sauer, Walter C., 156-57

Simon, William, 174n, 187, 194-95,

Savannah affair, 110

238

Saxbe, William, 163n

Simpson, Grete, 98

Scheuer, James, 189

Simpson, John L., 98

Schmidt, Helmut, 14-15, 173n

Allen Dulles’s relationship with,

Schroder, Bruno von, 74n

74-75, 115-18

Schroder, Helmut von, 74n

background of, 73-75

J. Henry Schroder Banking Corporation,

doors opened for Steve senior by,

74-75

75-76

Science, 206

intelligence activities of, 115-19

Sea Wolf, The (London), 21

John Foster Dulles’s relationship with,

Securities and Exchange Commission

74-75, 115, 117-18

(SEC), 12-13, 215, 233

Steve junior’s succession and, 132-3 3

Seidman, William, 203-4

Six Companies, 53-54

Senate, U.S., 166

Boulder Dam construction and, 33-42

Shultz’s confirmation hearings before,

Broadway Tunnel construction and,

206-7, 222-23

50-51

see also Congress, U.S.

dissension among partners in, 37-38

Sequoia Ventures, 220

as financial partnership, 44n

Shakespeare, William, 179

financial successes of, 39-40, 43-44,

Shapiro, Irving, 195, 232

51

Shaw, A. J., 92

fines levied on, 41

Shea, Charles A. , 44n

laborers mistreated by, 38-41

Boulder Dam construction and,

New Deal-sponsored projects of,

31-34, 37n, 38,48-49

43-45

Shelbi, Omar, 144, 150

in shipbuilding, 57

Sherman Antitrust Act, 185, 187, 190

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 142

shipbuilding, 75, 110

Slusser, Willis, 73n, 171-72, 175,

during World War II, 56-62, 70, 95

178-81, 213

Shivers, Allen, 157

Smith, A. Howard, 190-91

Shorenstein, Walter, 195

Smith, Gordon Paul, 177

Shorrock, Tim, l58n-59n

Smith, William French, 14-15

Shultz, George P., 14-15, 54, 159

Smithsonian Institution, 42

Arab Boycott and, 185,192,194-95

Snodgrass, C. Stribling:

as Bechtel executive, 169-73, 174,

background of, 120

178-79, 181, 186, 206, 211-13,

intelligence activities of, 119-24

217-18, 219-22, 231

Socony Mobil, 77

Bechtels and, 166-67, 169-73, 179,

Sofar, Sidney, 187-88

181, 217, 219, 221, 238

Somervell, Brehon:

Bechtel’s economic problems and,

aircraft industry and, 67

231-32

Alaska pipeline and, 61-66

Bechtel’s press relations supervised by,

atomic power and, 65n, 101

13n

background of, 62

in Labor Department, 165-68

Sonatrach, 159, 164, 169, 220-21

Reagan and, 215-18, 221-22, 223

South Africa, 12

State Department appointment of, 17,

Southern California Edison, 215

206-7, 221-24, 227-28

Bechtel’s work for, 15-16, 76-77

271

FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES

Southern Pacific Railroad:

Suez Crisis, 145

Bechtel Group’s work for, 15

Suharto,