Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

1. Robert Baer, Sleeping with the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Oil (New York: Crown Publishers, 2003), p 26.

2. Thomas W. Lippman, Inside the Mirage: America’s Fragile Partnership with Saudi Arabia (Boulder CO: Westview Press, 2004), p 162.

3. Thomas W. Lippman, Inside the Mirage: America’s Fragile Partnership with Saudi Arabia (Boulder CO: Westview Press, 2004), p 2.

4. Henry Wasswa, “Idi Amin, Murderous Ugandan Dictator, Dies,” Associated Press, August 17, 2003.

5. “The Saudi Connection,” U.S. News & World Report, December 15, 2003, p 21.

6. “The Saudi Connection,” U.S. News & World Report

, December 15, 2003, pp 19, 20, 26.

7. Craig Unger, “Saving the Saudis,” Vanity Fair, October 2003. For more on the Bush family’s involvement, Bechtel, etc., see: “Zapata Petroleum Corp.,” Fortune, April 1958, p 248; Darwin Payne, Initiative in Energy: Dresser Industries, Inc. 1880-1978 (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1979); Nathan Vardi, “Desert Storm: Bechtel Group Is Leading the Charge,” and “Contacts for Contracts,” both in Forbes, June 23, 2003, pp 63–66; Graydon Carter, “Editor’s Letter: Fly the Friendly Skies…” Vanity Fair, October 2003; Richard A. Oppel with Diana B. Henriques, “A Nation at War: The Contractor. Company has ties in Washington, and to Iraq,” New York Times

, April 18, 2003.

Chapter 17. Panama Canal Negotiations and Graham Greene

1. See for example: John M. Perkins, “Colonialism in Panama Has No Place in 1975,” Boston Evening Globe, Op-Ed page, September 19, 1975; John M. Perkins, “U.S.–Brazil Pact Upsets Ecuador,” The Boston Globe, Op-Ed page, May 10, 1976.

2. For examples of papers by John Perkins published in technical journals, see: John M. Perkins et al., “A Markov Process Applied to Forecasting, Part I—Economic Development” and “A Markov Process Applied to Forecasting, Part II—The Demand for Electricity,” The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Conference Papers C 73 475-1 (July 1973) and C 74 146-7 (January 1974), respectively; John M. Perkins and Nadipuram R. Prasad, “A Model for Describing Direct and Indirect Interrelationships Between the Economy and the Environment,” Consulting Engineer, April 1973; Edwin Vennard, John M. Perkins, and Robert C. Ender, “Electric Demand from Interconnected Systems,” TAPPI Journal (Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry), 28th Conference Edition, 1974; John M. Perkins et al., “Iranian Steel: Implications for the Economy and the Demand for Electricity” and “Markov Method Applied to Planning,” presented at the Fourth Iranian Conference on Engineering, Pahlavi University, Shiraz, Iran, May 12-16, 1974; and Economic Theories and Applications: A Collection of Technical Papers

with a Foreward by John M. Perkins (Boston: Chas. T. Main, Inc., 1975).

3. John M. Perkins, “Colonialism in Panama Has No Place in 1975,” Boston Evening Globe, Op-Ed page, September 19, 1975.

4. Graham Greene, Getting to Know the General (New York: Pocket Books, 1984), pp 89–90.

5. Graham Greene, Getting to Know the General (New York: Pocket Books, 1984).

Chapter 18. Iran’s King of Kings

1. William Shawcross, The Shah’s Last Ride: The Fate of an Ally (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988). For more about the Shah’s rise to power, see H. D. S. Greenway, “The Iran Conspiracy,” New York Review of Books

, September 23, 2003; Stephen Kinzer, All the Shah’s Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2003).

2. For more about Yamin, the Flowering Desert project, and Iran, see John Perkins, Shapeshifting (Rochester, VT: Destiny Books, 1997).

Chapter 20. The Fall of a King

1. For more about the Shah’s rise to power, see H.D.S. Greenway, “The Iran Conspiracy,” New York Review of Books, September 23, 2003; Stephen Kinzer, All the Shah’s Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2003).

2. See TIME magazine cover articles on the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, February 12, 1979, January 7, 1980, and August 17, 1987.