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John Perkins
Economist
Build
Change
Country
Men
Money
World
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There's no question in my mind that it was C.I.A. sanctioned, and most - many Latin American investigators have come to the same conclusion. Of course, we never heard about that in our country.
John Perkins
Mind
Country
Our
Latin
Latin American
About
No Question
Never
Investigators
Come
Most
Course
Conclusion
Heard
Question
American
Same
Sanctioned
Many
This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud, through seducing people into our way of life, through the economic hit men. I was very much a part of that.
John Perkins
Life
History
People
World
Men
Cheating
Other
Our
Unlike
Way
Has-Been
Fraud
Economic
Through
Part
Primarily
Empire
Built
Been
Very
Hit
Any
The History Of
Manipulation
Much
And in Iraq we tried to implement the same policy that was so successful in Saudi Arabia, but Saddam Hussein didn't buy. When the economic hit men fail in this scenario, the next step is what we call the jackals.
John Perkins
Buy
Men
Arabia
Tried
Hussein
Scenario
Economic
Step
Fail
Implement
Saddam
Saddam Hussein
Call
Policy
Iraq
Hit
Same
Successful
Next
Next Step
Saudi
Saudi Arabia
I was initially recruited while I was in business school back in the late sixties by the National Security Agency, the nation's largest and least understood spy organization; but ultimately I worked for private corporations.
John Perkins
Business
School
Organization
Nation
National
Late
Back
Corporations
Security
Least
Understood
Private
Ultimately
Spy
National Security
Sixties
While
Agency
Worked
Business School
Initially
Largest
The Treasury Department would use the interest from these securities to hire U.S. companies to build Saudi Arabia - new cities, new infrastructure - which we've done.
John Perkins
Build
Cities
Arabia
Securities
Would
New
Hire
Department
Done
Which
Interest
Infrastructure
Use
Companies
Saudi
Treasury
Saudi Arabia
These were big ones. Those companies would then go in and build an electrical system or ports or highways, and these would basically serve just a few of the very wealthiest families in those countries.
John Perkins
Big
Build
Few
Those
System
Would
Countries
Highways
Go
Were
Very
Families
Big Ones
Just
Then
Electrical
Companies
Serve
Ports
Basically
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