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Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

who knew of the skimming off of huge amounts of money from World Bank loans to

third world countries – and who was working with a journalist to bring the facts to light –

but this friend and the journalist were both murdered before they could complete their

work. Many of the correspondents have shared their realization that work that they did –

although entirely legal and legitimate – was in fact contributing to the kinds of

destructive outcomes described in

We would invite any reader of this book who has facts, examples, anecdotes, leads, or

other details that cast further light on the phenomena described in the book to send us that

information. Please email it to me at:

Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 235 Montgomery Street, Suite 650, San Francisco, CA

94104-2916.

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EXCERPT:Chas. T. Main Inc. was an engineering company, founded in 1893 by Charles T. Main, an engineer for the textile mills of New England. In addition to the then-traditional business of water and steam power, Main soon expanded into the new field of water resource engineering and hydroelectric generation. It rose to become a worldwide player in the utility industries, providing many wide-ranging engineering services. For example, in the mid-1950s Charles T. Main was responsible for the building of a hydro-electric plant in Turkey (Sarıyar Dam), a plant visited by the Shah of Iran during his effort to modernize Iran.
According to John Perkins, Main Inc. was additionally a consulting firm, which trapped Third World countries into international debts they could not repay. He published his account in his book Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (2004).
In the late 1980s, mismanagement led to the downfall of Main and it was bought by Parsons Corporation of Pasadena, California, which changed its name to Parsons Main, Inc. in January 1992.

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• The Chas. T. Main, Inc. records, 1975–[1977+] are located in the Northeastern University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections Department, Boston, MA.

For example, one correspondent told of a friendConfessions of an Economic Hit Man.spiersanti@bkpub.com, or mail it to our office at:

to be so shocking and troubling that they have questioned whether his accounts are true.

John himself has been absolutely unequivocal that everything written in the book is

factual and is the true story of his life. John has clearly and unwaveringly affirmed the

veracity of his accounts numerous times: in the book itself, in every media interview that

he has done, and throughout the dozens of hours that he spent working through the

manuscript page-by-page with me as part of our editorial process.

Contrary to what some people have assumed, there is a great deal of evidence to support

the veracity of John’s accounts in

historical documents (see the attached copies of some of these documents) that confirm

many aspects of John’s work; extensive research that many other people have done that

support most of John’s principal allegations; confirmation from one of the persons who is

in the best position to validate the veracity of John’s story; confirmations from others

who knew and worked with John at Chas. T. Main; and the assessments of a number of

people who have had long acquaintance with John and/or who have had in-depth

discussions with him about the specifics of his accounts.

1. It is indisputable that John was employed for more than nine years by Chas. T. Main,

Inc. Many documents, some of which are attached, confirm this.

 

(January 17, 2005). After he left MAIN, Greve was hired in 1976 as Executive Vice President of Tucson’s utility company, Tucson Electric Power (“TEP”), where he worked for the next 13 years; in 1985 he was promoted to president of TEP, in 1987

he was promoted to Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of TEP, and he led TEP until he left in 1989. Here are excerpts from this article:  John Perkins, whose tell-all book “Confessions of an Economic Hit Man” is a controversial New York Times best seller, and former Tucson Electric Power Co.

president Einar Greve say their past careers in foreign aid operations warn of the

possibility that American loans to rebuild the devastated South Asia nations will

bankrupt the countries while making U.S. corporations richer. . . .

The man who hired Perkins at Charles T. Main – former TEP executive Greve –

said his story is accurate.

“I would say that, allowing for some author discretion, basically his story is true,”

Greve said during a phone interview from his Santa Barbara, Calif., home. “What

John’s books says is, there was a conspiracy to put all these countries on the hook,

and that happened. Whether or not it was some sinister plot or not is up to

interpretation, but many of these countries are still over the barrel and have never

been able to repay the loans.”

Greve, who resigned as president of TEP in 1989 amid an insider stock-trading

scandal, said he knew of many projects foisted upon developing nations in the

name of foreign aid that were pure “boondoggles.”

“I knew of projects that were financed by USAID and World Bank that should

never have been built,” he said. “There was nobody who believed some of these

projects would help their economies, but the receiving countries just wanted

money to build something. If it turned out to be a lemon, it really didn’t deter

them.”

So here we have a business leader who hired John Perkins at MAIN – and who was

an eyewitness to many of the things reported in John’s book – who confirms for an

on-the-record newspaper interview that “basically his story is true” and who adds

important specifics to support John’s principal allegations.

10. Finally, many people have had extensive and detailed discussions with John about the

accounts in his book and have concluded, to their satisfaction, that

factual account of John’s experiences. Paul Fedorko, the former president of William

R. Morrow and currently a literary agent at Trident Media Group (one of the premier

literary agencies in the United States), conducted his own due diligence before

signing John as a client and presenting

nonfiction book. As John’s editor at Berrett-Koehler Publishers for

have spent dozens of hours discussing with John every page of his book and have

had, I believe, a good opportunity to note inconsistencies and errors if John were

merely making up his accounts; instead, I have found repeated confirmations of his

accounts in both his written and verbal telling of them to me. I have also spoken to

four other persons who worked at Chas. T. Main during the 1970s and who knew and

worked with John there; their recollections have supported many aspects of what John

says in the book and told me about his career at MAIN. And many others who have

interviewed John, who have reviewed his book, and who have known John for many

years have also concluded that his book is factual.

Many people who have written to John Perkins about his book have told their own stories

of involvement in or awareness of some of the kinds of harmful activities described in

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