The Bechtel File

Read this 1978 Mother Jones article on Bechtel by Mark Dowie, as highlighted by the CIA.

—By Mark Dowie

| Fri Apr. 3, 2009 1:36 PM PDT

Inside the CIA's (sort of) secret document stash, a MoJo reporter found this article by Mark Dowie from 1978 (pdf.).

The highlighted version includes original CIA notes. (pdf)

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Mark Dowie

Mark Dowie’s latest book is Conservation Refugees: The Hundred-Year Conflict between Global Conservation and Native Peoples. He’s also the author of Mother Jones’ 1977 expose of the Ford Pinto.

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