Confessions of an Economic Hit man (pg 92 - 142)

Summary
John had the job/mission of persuading Prince W. of Saudi Arabia that the Saudi Arabia Money-laundering Affair would benefit his country as well as him personally. On Prince w. stay in Boston he asked for entertainment from a blond female which became sally. This mission gave John difficulties. He had to figure out how to pay for her services. The Prince agreed to pay for the services and he ask john if sally or a female similar to sally can be found to go back to Saudi Arabia with him, and that is what John did. John Knew if he failed with the prince MAIN will blame him and the cost failing is high. In the end it all worked out. Saudi Arabia's kingdom went from being a desert to a modern city. The U.S and Saudi Arabia alliance was there and the countries help protect each other. As time went on it seems as if the alliance was weakening which cause terrorist groups and attacks. Because of John's Success with Prince W. which help with the contract between the two countries, John career advanced. he was able to hire people to work for him. Torrijos relationship with John grew closer. John Published an article in the Boston Globe which was about three specific reasons for transferring the canal to Panama.Tarrijos was happy and MAIN was getting Huge contract deals. John met Yamin a tall man with long hair who gad an accent that made it easy to figure out he was Iranian. The two talked and John found that Yamin knew a lot about him. Yamin told John his appreciation for there time spent talking and he mention his young age and how open minded he was. John toured all over Iran in his visits and met new people. Yamin took John to see an old man in a wheel chair in a hut who told John he was like him and he told him That Main will lose millions because the new ruling party would simply refuse to pay and that the U.S will be hated. With each new project he have completed would update it on his resume. Even though his resume shows him as an intelligent man sometimes he had to down help self so he can do dirty work.

Quote
" Yet. it took the experience of working in countries like Indonesia, Panama, Iran, and Colombia in order for me to understand the deeper implications" (Pg 128).

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John Perkins was told about his Job once he got into MAIN but he did not see how big his job is until he actually done them. He thought the Job at MAIN would be that hard and that there would not be much problems but he found that was not necessarily true once he actually start going to places such as those ones .