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John Perkins is an ex - economic hit man (EHM.) His job was to work towards endebting third world countries so that the US could extract consessions, such as military bases, political support, and cheap resources like oil. He was hired by Chas T Main and was promoted very quickly to Chief Economist, even though he did not have a degree in Economics. Other companies in this business include Bechtel and Halliburton. Perkins was recruited by the NSA who then hooked him up with a job at MAIN. His job was to write economic forcasts for proposed development projects in third world countries. MAIN told him to inflate the impact of said projects to get them to be approved by both the host country, and lenders, such as World Bank and other regional development banks. When governments refuse to cooperate with the EHM, the US government sent in the real hit men - NSA, CIA, named the jackals. When the jackals failed, the US intervened directly, and militarily, as was the case with the Shah in Iran, Nicaragua, Chile and Panama.
The goal of MAIN and its 'competitors' (who were in reality not competing) after the oil shock was to create a pliant Saudi Arabia. Not only was the point of EHMs to get concessions for the US government, but all work had to be done by US companies. Perkins was asked to write a report on how to create an ally in Saudi Arabia. He proposed installing a state of the art garbage disposal system (before there had been goats eating trash on the sidewalks.) The proposal also proposed huge refineries, necessitating large industrial parks, new electricity plants and lines, imports of people from elswhere to work, new highways, communication lines, airports and seaports and services industries to keep the cogs turning. All built by US contractors. The modernization would trigger adverse reactions from Saudi Arabia's conservative neighbors, necessitating the country to buy protection from the US - airplaines, military hardware, defense contractors from america would naturally get all the orders.
Companies in the line of work of Chas T Main are also powerfully influential in Washington. Robert McNamara started as CEO of a company, became Sec. of Defense under Nixon, and became head of the World Bank. George Shultz was president of Bechtel before he became Sec. of Treasury and Chairman of the Council on Economic Policy under Nixon. Casper Weinberger was a vice president at Bechtel and became Sec. of Defense under Reagan. Richard Helms was Director CIA under Johnson and became ambassador to Iran under Nixon. Richard Cheney was president of Halliburton, before becoming Sec. of Defense under Bush I and vice president under Bush II. Bush I was founder of Zapata Petroleum, ambassador to the UN under Nixon and Ford, and also Director CIA under Ford. The links between these companies and the White House and international organizations is evident. These men control the levers of power and are shuffled in and out of different military - industrial and government -international posts. (Confessions of an Economic Hitman 1 - 100)
The goal of MAIN and its 'competitors' (who were in reality not competing) after the oil shock was to create a pliant Saudi Arabia. Not only was the point of EHMs to get concessions for the US government, but all work had to be done by US companies. Perkins was asked to write a report on how to create an ally in Saudi Arabia. He proposed installing a state of the art garbage disposal system (before there had been goats eating trash on the sidewalks.) The proposal also proposed huge refineries, necessitating large industrial parks, new electricity plants and lines, imports of people from elswhere to work, new highways, communication lines, airports and seaports and services industries to keep the cogs turning. All built by US contractors. The modernization would trigger adverse reactions from Saudi Arabia's conservative neighbors, necessitating the country to buy protection from the US - airplaines, military hardware, defense contractors from america would naturally get all the orders.
Companies in the line of work of Chas T Main are also powerfully influential in Washington. Robert McNamara started as CEO of a company, became Sec. of Defense under Nixon, and became head of the World Bank. George Shultz was president of Bechtel before he became Sec. of Treasury and Chairman of the Council on Economic Policy under Nixon. Casper Weinberger was a vice president at Bechtel and became Sec. of Defense under Reagan. Richard Helms was Director CIA under Johnson and became ambassador to Iran under Nixon. Richard Cheney was president of Halliburton, before becoming Sec. of Defense under Bush I and vice president under Bush II. Bush I was founder of Zapata Petroleum, ambassador to the UN under Nixon and Ford, and also Director CIA under Ford. The links between these companies and the White House and international organizations is evident. These men control the levers of power and are shuffled in and out of different military - industrial and government -international posts. (Confessions of an Economic Hitman 1 - 100)
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