Graubard, Seymour, 194-96
Federal Trade Commission (FTC), 175,
Gray, Prent, 74
177
Gray’s Harbor, 44
Ferris, Gwin, 119
Great Britain:
Financial Express, 137
IBI operations eyed by, 89-90
Finletter, Thomas, 75, 99
Saudi oil and, 82
Firestone, Leonard K., 14-15
Suez Canal tolls collected by, 85
Fischer, Peter, 186-87
wartime construction needs of, 56-58
Flanigan, Peter M., 14-15, 174n
Great San Francisco Earthquake, 22
Fluor Corporation, 136, 220
Greenspan, Alan, 216
Flying Boxcar transports, 108-9
FMC, 137, 138, 157
Habib, Philip, 221 n
Follis, R. G., 81
Hafstad, Lawrence R., 103
Ford, Gerald R., 14-15, 172, 215
Haig, Alexander, 15, 173n, 221, 223n
Arab Boycott and, 184-85, 187-90,
Halaby, Najeeb, 15
223
Haldeman, H. R., 15 5
attempted assassination of, 182
Hammer, Armand, 142
favors to Bechtel from, 16
background of, 143-44
nuclear power promoted by, 203-5
Libyan activities of, 143-45, 148-50,
Weinberger and, 181-82, 213
169
Ford, Henry, 26
Soviet projects of, 160-63, 228
Ford, Henry, II, 128n
Hanauer, Stephen, 199-200
Ford Foundation, 128n
Hangari, Ibrahim, 149-50
Foreign Operations Administration,
Harriman, W Averell, 137
u.s., 105
Hart, Parker T. (“Pete”), 190n
Foreign Service, U.S., 109
Hartley, Fred L., 15
Forrestal, James, 75, 98
Hartman, Arthur, 187-88
Forster, Arnold, 195
Hassler, Donald, 237-38
Fort Douglas, 39
Hay, Elizabeth, 72n-73n
Fortune, 37n,61,69
Hayes, Peter, 158n-59n
Fortune 500, 12
Haynes, Harold, 225-26, 232
Freeport Minerals, 157
Haynsworth, Clement, 166
Friedman, Milton, 238
Hayward, Thomas, 15
Fulton, Hugh, 65
Health, Education and Welfare
Furth, Alan C., 15
Department (HEW), U.S., 174, 178
265
FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES
Hearst, Patty, 235
78n, 95, 119, 157-59, 237
Hearst, William Randolph, 21
Industrial Engineering, 66
Hearst, William Randolph, Jr., 15
Industrial Indemnity, 25, 72n-73n
heavy water storage plants, l 0 l
Industrial Workers of the World, 39
Helms, Richard, l74n
Ingram, William, 193n
Joshua Hendry Iron Works, 96, 110
Inter-Continental Hotels, 15, 106
Herodotus, 42
International Atomic Energy Agency
Heston, Charlton, 15
(IAEA), 227
Hindmarsh, V G. (“Heine”), 54
International Bechtel, Inc. {IBI), 84,
Hitler, Adolf, 56, 74n
124, 145, 237
Hodel, Donald, 227
Arab Boycott and, 185
Hoey, Henry, 26
Arabs and workers mistreated by,
Hogan and Hartson, 189
86-87
Holden, Paul, 131
intelligence activities of, 114-15
Hollingsworth, Robert L., 174n
Saudi projects of, 85-92, 95-96, 121
Homestead, 106-7
International Business Council, 216
Hoover, Herbert, 74
International Business Machines (IBM),
Bechtel’s influence on, 12
78n
Boulder Dam and, 30-31, 39-40, 43
Bechtel’s work for, 16, 106-7
Hoover Commission on Intelligence, 156
International Wheat Conference, 93n
Hoover Dam, see Boulder Dam
Interstate Highway sy stem, 112
Horton, J. K. (“Jack”), 14-16, 76-77
Iran, 95-96, 146
Hoskinson, Samuel, 214
oil refineries built in, 96
House of Representatives, see Congress,
Soviet threat to, 113, 115-16, 122-23
U.S.; Senate, U.S.
Iraq, 79n, 95-96
Houston Space Center, 152
Iraq Petroleum, 96
Howe, C. D., 79
irrigation projects, 23
Hull, Cordell {Bechtel vice president),
Israel, 79n, 214, 221
204
Arab Boycott of, 183-90, 192-96,
Hull, Cordell {Secretary of State), 120,
197, 209, 223
204
Arab oil-storage tanks bombed by, 114
Hussein I, King ofJordan, 124
hydrogen bomb, 13-14, 102, 109n
Hyundai Construction, 209-10
Jackson, Basil, 96
Jackson, Henry, 161-62
ibn Saud, Abdul Aziz, King of Saudi
Jacobs, Fred, 170
Arabia, 82-83, 114
Japan, 198, 205, 227
contracts awarded to IBI by, 85-86,
Pearl Harbor attacked by, 58, 59, 61
88-91
Philippines attacked by, 59-60
Saudi pipeline operation and, 84-86,
Javits, Jacob, 184
88
Jebsen, Jens, 118
Ickes, Harold L., 120
Johnson, Lyndon B., 106, 152
Alaska pipeline and, 62-65
Johnston, Marguerite, 67
on Boulder Dam construction, 40-42
Johnstone, Clint, 234-35, 237
Saudi oil and, 83
Johnstone, Shana Bechtel, 234-35, 237
Idris al Sanussi, King of Libya, 144-45,
Joint American-Israeli Chamber of
149-50
Commerce, 185
India, 12, 169
Jones, Howard, 119
atomic bomb detonated by, 202-3,
Joppa atomic-energy plant, 10 5-6, 167—
206
168
Bechtel’s fertilizer project for, 136-37
Jubail, Bechtel’s construction project in,
nuclear plants in, 199-203, 228
12, 78n, 188n, 208-9, 211
Indonesia, Bechtel’s operations in, 12,
Jungers, Frank, 118, 136, 192-93
266
INDEX
Justice Department, U.S., 153, 162-63
Komes, Jerome W, 73, 76, 77, 98, 133,
Arab Boycott and, 184-90, 192, 223
171, 211
in Korean power plant construction,
105
Kahn, Felix:
in Libyan operations, 145-47, 150
Boulder Dam construction and,
Korea, Republic of (South), 105,
31-34, 37n, 38
l 58n-59n
in shipbuilding, 57
Korean War, 13, 99, 122
Six Companies described by, 44n
Kuwait, 95-96
Kaiser, Edgar F., Jr., 13, 14-15, 44n
Kuwait International Investment
Kaiser, Henry J., 78n, 119
Company, 184
in aircraft building, 66-67, 108
Kuwait Oil Company, 95-96
background of, 26-27
Boulder Dam construction and, 15,
Labor Department, U.S., 165-68, 212
28,29-30,32-34,38,40,43
Boulder Dam construction and, 39-40
Broadway Tunnel construction and, 51
Ladies Band, 19
Dad Bechtel and, 26-28, 29-30
LaGuardia Airport, 62-63
independent ways of, 44n
Laird, Melvin, 217
money lost by, 76
Lakeside Foundation, l28n
in nuclear power, 102, 110
Land, Emory S., 58-59
phy sical appearance of, 28
Lawrence, ErnestO., 102-3
in pipeline construction, 28
Lawrence, T. E., 84
in road construction, 27-28, 29-30,
Lawrence-Livermore Laboratories, 103
32
Lazard Freres & Company, 184
in shipbuilding, 60-61, 70
Lear Petroleum, 220
Kaiser-Fraser Corporation, 108
Lebanon, 95-96
Kearns, Henry:
Lehman Brothers, 137
background of, 154-55
Leventhal, Martin, Jr., 184
Bechtel and, 154, 156�57, 159-60,
Levi, Edward, 185-90
164, 165
Lias Liete, Antonio, 160
conflict of interest charges against,
Libeco, 146-49
163-64
Libya, 142, 184
Eximbank appointment of, 154,
Bechtel’s intelligence activities in, 118
155-57, 159-61, 163-64, 202,
Bechtel’s operations in, 12, 143,
226n
145-51, 152, 169
international nuclear power supported
Hammer’s operations in, 143-45,
by, 160
148-51, 169
Soviet project financing and, 161
Life, 98-99
Kelly, J. B., 83
Linkletter, Art, 15
Kennecott Copper, 220
Links Club, 78-79
Kennedy, John F., 111, 138, 144, 155,
Littlefield, Edmund W, 14-15, 34n,
220
232
Kennedy, Richard T., 227
Llewellyn Iron Works, 52
Kent, E. Earl, 20 ln
Lloyd, Earle G.,
