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
263
FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES
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,
264
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,
