Friends in High Places: The Bechtel Story : The Most Secret Corporation and How It Engineered the Wo by Laton Mccartney (books to read to be successful TXT) 📕

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Commission for Relief in Belgium (CRB),

Business Council, 77, 106-7, 119, 136,

74

194, 216-17

Commonwealth Edison, 201

Business Roundtable, 194-95, 216, 223n

Communism, 13-14, 97, 109, 116

By rne, John C., 53

Compafiia Petrolera La Nacional, SA,

120-21

California Club, 77

Congress, U.S., l l2, 136, 156, 190

California Edison, 104-5

on Arab Boy cott, 189, 193-96

California Institute of Technology, 97,

on atomic energy, 103, IIO-l l ,

102, 109n

203-5, 207

California Research Group, 103

Bechtel investigated by, 17

Call of the Wild, The (London), 21

Boulder Dam construction and, 40-41

Calship, 58-61, 62, 70

Canol hearings held by, 64-65

Caltex, 83

General Accounting Office (GAO) of,

Canada, 135-36, 220-21

70, 162-63

pipelines constructed across, 78-79

Joint Committee on Atomic Energy,

Canadian oil (Canol), 62-66, 70, 77

108

Congressional hearings on, 64-65

on Soviet projects of Bechtel and

Cannon, James, 204

Hammer, 161-63, 169

Carson, Johnny, 223

Steve senior’s testimonies before, 157

Carter, Jimmy, 193n, 213, 228

war profiteering investigated by, 70

Cary, Frank, 232

see also Senate, U.S.

Casey, William, 215 -16

Congressional Record, 175-76

Catlin, Dan, 114

Connally, John, 159, 214-15

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA),

Connor, John T., 119

13-14, 98, 120, 138, 215

Consolidated Steel, 56, 95

Bechtel’s collaboration with, 16, 17,

McCone’s employment with, 52-54

112, 113-16, 118-19, 121-25

Consumers Power Company, 230

Bechtel’s Libyan operations and,

Continental Gas, 28

146-47, 150

Cooley, George S., Jr., 22, 105, 132-33

Chamberlain, S. F., 122

death of, 70n, 79n, 117, 13 3

Chappel, Elizabeth, 48

description of, 73

Chappel, H. G., 48

intelligence activities of, 116

Chappel, Jessie, 48

Philippine flight of, 59-60

Chemical Bank, 236-37

in Saudi deals, 84, 87

Cheney, Michael, 115

Steve senior and, 70, 72, 94

Cheren, Rita, 186-87

Cooley, George S., Sr., 22

Childs, J. Rives, 86, 90

Cooley, Marjorie, 59

on Borman’s firing, 91-92

Cooley, Richard P., 14-15

on CIA-IBI collaboration, 115

Cordiner, Ralph H., 107-8, 111

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Corrupt Practices Act, 211

Simpson’s relationship with, 74-75,

Coughham, Lynn, 118

115-18

Council on Economic Affairs, 230n

Dulles, John Foster, 70n, 108

Cranston, Alan, 223

Simpson’s relationship with, 74-75,

Crimson, 175-76

115, 117-18

Crowe, Frank T.:

dump trucks, 23-24

Boulder Dam construction and, 31,

Duncan, Virginia, 180

33-42, 43, 48-49

Broadway Tunnel construction and,

Eastman Kodak, 12

5ln

Ebasco Services, Inc., 10 5

Six companies praised by, 44-45

Eccles, Marriner, 34n

workers mistreated by, 38-40

Edwards, James, 226-27

Cuba, road construction in, 29-30, 32

Egy pt, 159, 185

Cutler, Leland, 31-32

Ehrlichman, John D., 14, 168

Eisenhower, Dwight D., 13, 136,

154-55, 168

Dachs, Alan, 235-37

on atomic energy, 103, 111

Dachs, Lauren Bechtel, 234-37

McCone’s friendship with, 98-100,

Damm, John A., 199

108-9

Dart, Justin W, 13

Steve senior’s relationship with, 112

Davies, Barbara Bechtel, 48, 89, 126,

elections and campaigns:

129, 235

of 1924, 175

Davies, John W, 175

of 1952, 99-100, 108, 154

Davies, Paul, Jr., 129

of 19 56, 109n, 112

Davies, Paul, Sr., 138-39, 157

of 1964, 177

Davies, Ralph K., 64, 120

of 1968, 14

Davis, W Kenneth, 104, 199-201,

of 1972, 160-61

225-28

of 1976, 182

Day, Dennis, 15

of 1980, 214-16, 225-26

Defense Department, U.S., 78n, 111,

Ellis, Talbott, 67-69

238

El Paso Natural Gas, 153, 161

McCone’s work for, 97-99,104

Energy Department, U.S., 224, 227-28

Weinberger’s appointment to, 17,

Energy Research and Development

217-18, 219, 22ln, 223, 228

Administration (ERDA), 190-91

Degroly er, Everette, 120

Engineering News Record, 238-39

Degroly er Mission, 120-121

Engineers Club, 32, 33n-34n

de Rovin, Pegulu, 144

English, Earl, 84-85

Dewey, Thomas E., 98

environmentalists, Bechtels’ clashes with,

Dillon, C. Douglas, 112, 138, 220

16, 25, 73n, 191-92

Dillon, Read & Company, 15, 220, 233

Epstein, Benjamin R., 195

Doak, William, 39

Equal Opportunity Act, 166

Donovan, William (“Wild Bill”), 75

Eubanks, Alice Elizabeth Bechtel, 24, 26

Doomsday Town, I 01-2

father’s death and, 45-46

Dorman, Raphael, 148, 162, 169, 172

Eubanks, Brantley M., 46n

Dothan nuclearfuel plant, 198-99, 202,

Eveland, William Crane, 147

204-5

experimental breeder reactor (EBR-1),

Dowie, Mark, 158n-59n

103, 107

Dreiser, Theodore, 40

Export Administration Act, 193, 195

Dresden I nuclear plant, 111, 201-2

Expart-Import Bank (Eximbank), U.S.,

Dual Drilling Company, 220

85-86, 123, 215

Duce, James Terry, 120

Bechtel’s Indonesian operation and,

Dulles, Allen, 13-14, 70n, 119

157-59

McCone and, 98

Keams’s appointment to, 154, 155-57,

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INDEX

159-61, 163-64, 202, 226n

Gabarini, Ed, 236

nuclear financing by, 160, 202, 203-4, Gaithersburg micrographic facility, 2 3 3

226

Galbraith, John Kenneth, 136

in Soviet project financing, 161-62

Garde, Earle E., 120

Steve senior’s appointment to, 154,

Gates, Thomas, 138-39

156-57, 159-60, 164

Gates Construction, 141

Gates Tire, 234-35

Fahd ibn Abdul Aziz, King of Saudi

General Electric (GE), 15

Arabia, 209

Bechtel’s affiliation with, 106-8

Fahuum, Badr, 91

in nuclearpower, 106-8,110-11,

Fairchild Corporation, 108

200-202, 225

Fair Labor Standards Act, 212

General Petroleum, 77

Faisal, King of Saudi Arabia, 84, 89,

Germany, Federal Republic of (West),

172, 184, 210

202, 205-6

Fallow, William L., 140-41

Germany, Nazi, 56-57, 74n

Fatima, Queen of Libya, 145

Godwin, Richard, 238

Federal Bureau oflnvestigation (FBI),

Graham, James G., 65

141

Grand Coulee Dam, 44

Federal Reserve System,