by Sally Denton
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Zonana, Victor F. “Tough Slog: Megabuilder Bechtel Tries to Stay on Top by Being Aggressive—As Huge Jobs Grow Fewer, It Drums Up New Work and Stresses Financing—A Dynasty Among Dynasties.” Wall Street Journal, October 16, 1984.
AUDIO/VISUAL
Arnold, Chris. “Profile: Most Large-Scale Public Works Projects Go Well over Budget.” NPR: All Things Considered. April 10, 2003.
Chideya, Farai. “News and Notes.” NPR News. “Interview: Griff Witte on Post-Katrina Contractors in the Gulf Region.” September 21, 2005.
Conan, Neal. “Reconstruction and privatization in postwar Iraq.” NPR. Talk of the Nation. September 3, 2003.
Goodman, Amy. “The Most Important Journalist You’ve Never Heard Of: Remembering William Worthy.” www.democracynow.org/2014/5/19/the_most_important_journalist_youve_never.
Schalch, Kathleen. “Bechtel wins contract to help rebuild Iraq.”: All Things Considered. April 17, 2003.
Smiley, Tavis. NPR. “Interview: Jim Vallette discusses the Institute for Policy Studies’s new report suggesting oil is the main reason behind the war in Iraq.” April 16, 2003.
U.S. Newswire. “Three Hundred Citizen Groups Call on Secret World Bank Trade Court to Open Up Bechtel Case Against Bolivia.” August 29, 2002.
Vallette, Jim, Steve Kretzmann, and Daphne Wysham. “Crude Vision: How Oil Interests Obscured U.S. Government Focus on Chemical Weapons Use by Saddam Hussein.” Investigative report prepared for the Sustainable Energy and Economy Network/Institute for Policy Studies. August 13, 2003.
YouTube Video: “Top U.S. Officials: Free Jonathan Pollard Now!” Uploaded February 22, 2012. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5e_OqB0lQeM.
PAPERS
Ahrari, M.E, with James Beal. “The New Great Game in Muslim Central Asia.” McNair Paper, 47. Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University. January 1996.
Burrows, Anne Platt, Paul Kucik; William Skinnyhorn; and John Straigis. “A Systems Analysis of the A.Q. Khan Network.” Social Sciences Seminar, December 8, 2005. Presented at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. Authors: “Competition—or Collusion? Privatization and Crony Capitalism in the Nuclear Weapons Complex: Some Questions from New Mexico.” Los Alamos Study Group. Authors: Damon Hill and Greg Mello. May 30, 2006.
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n. February 2010, Vol. 24, Issue 2.
GOVERNMENT CABLES, MEMORANDA, REPORTS, PAPERS, COURT FILINGS, AND HEARINGS
“Afghanistan: Soviet Invasion and the U.S. Response.” By the Afghanistan Task Force, Foreign Affairs and National Defense Division. The Library of Congress Congressional Research Service. Issue Brief I550006. January 1, 1980.
“A major battle of principle and policy has been joined by the Justice Department’s civil suit charging the San Francisco–based Bechtel Corporation with supporting the Arab Boycott of Israel.” January 28, 1976. Declassified May 4, 2006. From Secretary of State, Washington, DC, to Embassies at Abu Dhabi, Amman, Baghdad, Beirut, Cairo, Damascus, Doha, Jidda, Khartoum, Kuwait, Manama, Muscat, Sana, Tripoli, Algiers, Rabat, Tel Aviv, Tunis. Subject: “Arms Control. U.S. Efforts to Control the Transfer of Nuclear-Capable Missile Technology.” Report to the Honorable Dennis DeConcini, U.S. Senate. United States General Accounting Office June 1990.
Background Investigation of John Alex McCone. U.S. Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation. May 5, 1954.
“Banca Nazionale del Lavoro (BNL).” U.S. Congress. Hearing before the Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs. House of Representatives. 102nd Cong., 1st Sess. April 9, 1991. Declassified July 3, 1996.
“Bechtel Projects in Saudi Arabia.” February 9, 1976. Declassified May 4, 2006. From American Embassy in Jidda to Secretary of State, Washington, DC.
“Briefing Notes for Rumsfeld Visit to Baghdad.” Cable from Secretary of State George Shultz to American Embassy in Sudan. Secret. March 24, 1984. Declassified November 14, 1996. w2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB82/iraq48.pdf.
“Church Committee Reports.” http://aarclibrary.org/publib/contents/contents_church.htm.
“CIA Director John McCone recommends to President Johnson deploying additional troops to Vietnam and increasing air action against North Vietnam.” Reproduced in Declassified Documents Reference System. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2013.
“Comprehensive Report of the Special Advisor to the DCI [Director Central Intelligence] on Iraq’s WMD With Addendums.” Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.
“Declaration of Danielle Brian Supporting Plaintiffs’ Supplemental Brief in Support of Motion for Attorneys’ Fees.” Elaine Andrews et al. vs. Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC, et al., Superior Court of the State of California, County of Alameda. Case No: RG09453596. December 15, 2014.
“Declaration of the Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger” sentencing memorandum in the Jonathan Pollard case. http://ww2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB407/docs/EBB-PollardDoc6.pdf. September 30, 2004. Vols. I–III.
Declassified Documents Reference System. Farmington Hills, Michigan: Gale, 2013.
Defendant Jonathan J. Pollard’s First Memorandum in Aid of Sentencing. Exhibit B. Declassified 2013. U.S. National Archives. http://www.archives.gov/declassification/iscap/pdf/2013-084-doc2.pdf.
Defendant Jonathan J. Pollard’s Second Memorandum in Aid of Sentencing. March 23, 1987. Partially declassified October 26, 2012. National Security Archive. Ibid.
“Department of State Action Memorandum. Issue for Decision: Whether to instruct USINT Baghdad to raise issue of Iraqi CW use and urge cessation.” From Jonathan T. Howe to Lawrence S. Eagleburger. National Security Archive. November 21, 1983. Declassified May 20, 1994.
“DOD Agreement Sheds Light on NNSA Problems.” Union of Concerned Scientists. August 20, 2012. Author: Stephen Young.
“DOJ Request for Record of McCone/ITT Contacts.” CIA Memorandum for the Record. September 16, 1975. Declassified, July 23, 1987. Reproduced in Declassified Documents Reference System. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2013.
Donald Rumsfeld Papers. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. Washington, DC. Elaine Andrews et al. vs. Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC, et al. Superior Court of the State of California, County of Alameda. Case No: RG09453596.
“Export-Import Bank. OMB’s Method for Estimating Bank’s Loss Rates Involves Challenges and Lacks Transparency.” Report to Congressional Committees. Government Accountability Office. September 2004.
“Family Jewels.” Memorandum for Executive Secretary, CIA Management Committee. May 16, 1973. Declassified June 2007. National Security Archive.
From Alfred L. Atherton, Jr., to Secretary of State. Department of State Action Memorandum. From CIA Director John McCone to President Lyndon Johnson. April 28, 1965. Declassified January 3, 1986.
Hill, Damon, and Greg Mello. “Competition—or Collusion? Privatization and Crony Capitalism in the Nuclear Weapons Complex: Some Questions from New Mexico.” Los Alamos Study Group. May 30, 2006.
“Iran-Contra Investigation. Testimony of George P. Shultz and Edwin Meese, III.” U.S. Congress. Joint Hearings Before the Senate Select Committee on Secret Military Assistance to Iran and the Nicaraguan Opposition and the House Select Committee to Investigate Covert Arms Transactions with Iran. 100th Cong., 1st Sess. July 23, 24, 28, and 29, 1987.
“Iran-Contra Investigation. Testimony of Donald T. Regan and Caspar W. Weinberger.” Joint Hearings before the House Select Committee to Investigate Covert Arms Transactions with Iran and Senate Select Committee on Secret Military Assistance to Iran and the Nicaraguan Opposition. 100th Cong., 1st Sess. July 30, 31, and August 3, 1987.
“Iraq Stabilization and Reconstruction.” Hearing Before the Committee on Foreign Relations. Telegram from American Embassy Baghdad to Secretary of State, Washington, DC, Re: “Iraqgate: Saddam Hussein, U.S. Policy and the Prelude to the Persian Gulf War, 1980-1994. http://nsarchive.chadwyck.com/marketing/about.jsp.
“Iraqi anger expressed to Bechtel representatives over U.S. Senate’s passage of act invoking economic sanctions against Iraq for use of chemical weapons against the Kurds.” The Genocide Bill, calling it part of Zionist conspiracy to undermine Iraq. September 13, 1988. U.S. Senate. 109th Cong., 2nd Session. February 8, 2006.
“Iraqi Attitude Toward an Israeli Embarace [sic] on the Aqaba Pipeline.” April 16, 1984. http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB107/.
“Lesson No. 4: War and Oil.” Henry B. Gonzalez. U.S. House of Representatives. Congressional Record. February 21, 1991.
McKay, James C. Report of Independent Counsel: In Re: Edwin Meese III. “Part Seven, Aqaba Pipeline Project.” Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1988.
“Measures to Improve U.S. Posture and Readiness to Respond to Developments in the Iran-Iraq War. Top Secret National Security Decision Directive 139. April 5, 1984. Declassified August 18, 1994. http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB82/iraq53.pdf.
“Memorandum for: Mr. William E. Colby. Subject: Special Activities.” Central Intelligence Agency. June 1, 1973.
“Memorandum for the Files.” Department of State. April 21, 1958. Declassified Documents Reference System. Farmington Hills, Michigan. Gale, 2013.
“Memorandum for the Record.” White House. May 19, 1958. Declassified October 17, 1983.
“Memorandum for the Record: Discussion with President Johnson,” November 25, 1963. John McCone Memoranda, Meetings with the President, Box I, File 23 November 1963–27 December 1963. LBJ Papers. LBJ Library. Austin, Texas.
“Memorandum of Conversation.” Office of the Minister, Ministry of Finance of the U.S.S.R. May 8, 1974. Declassified Photocopy from Gerald R. Ford Library. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/DDRS?vrsn=1.0&view=image&slb=FT&locID=loc.
“Memorandum of Conversation.” President Ford, Henry Kissinger, Donald Rumsfeld, Brent Scowcroft. January 7, 1976. Declassified Documents Reference System.
“Memorandum of Conversation.” Secretary of State Henry Kissinger’s Meeting with the General Advisory Committee on Arms Control and Disarmament. January 6, 1976. Classified “Secret.” Declassified April 5, 2000.
“Memorandum of Meeting with the President. White House. Top Secret.” Bureau of the Budget to Study the Intelligence Structure of the Government. February 3, 1960. Declassified October 28, 1981. Declassified Do
cuments Reference System. Farmington Hills, Michigan: Gale, 2013.
“Memorandum of Telephone Conversation.” Kissinger Telephone Conversations. January 6, 1976. Digital National Security Archive. Item Number: KA14486.
“Minister of Industry Blasts Senate Action.” Confidential Cable from American Embassy, Baghdad, to Secretary of State. September 13, 1988. National Security Archive. http://nsarchive.chadwyck.com/cat/displayItemImages.do?queryType=cat&ResultsID=14.
“Modernizing the Nuclear Security Enterprise. Observations on NNSA’s Options for Meeting Its Plutonium Research Needs.” Report to the Committee on Armed Services, U.S. Senate. U.S. Government Accountability Office. September 2013.
“Multinational Corporations and United States Foreign Policy.” U.S. Senate. Hearings before the Subcommittee on Multinational Corporations of the Committee on Foreign Relations. 94th Cong., 2nd Sess. August 9, Executive Session, and September 10, 13, 15, and 27, 1976.
“New FRUS Volume on the U.S.-Supported Overthrow of Chilean President Salvador Allende. U.S. Covert Intervention in Chile: Planning to Block Allende Began Long Before September 1970 Election.” National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 470. National Security Archive. May 23, 2014.
“Nomination of Caspar W. Weinberger to be Secretary of Defense.” U.S. Senate. Hearing before the Committee on Armed Services. 97th Cong., 1st Sess. January 6, 1981.
“Nomination of George P. Schultz [sic] to Be Secretary of the Treasury.” Hearing Before the Committee on Finance. U.S. Senate. 92nd Cong., 2nd Sess. May 25, 1972.
“Nomination of George P. Shultz.” U.S. Senate. Hearings Before the Committee on Foreign Relations. Nomination of George P. Shultz, of California, to be Secretary of State. 97th Cong., 97th Sess. July 13 and 14, 1982.
“Nomination of John A. McCone to be a Member of the Atomic Energy Commission.” U.S. Congress. Hearing before the Senate Section of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy. 85th Cong., 2nd sess. July 2, 1958.
“Nominations of McCone, Korth, and Harlan.” U.S Senate. Hearing Before the Committee on Armed Services. 87th Cong., 2nd Sess. January 18, 1962.