Word: mccone
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...list of elite political insiders who have been on the Bechtel payroll is sizable. John McCone, who headed the Atomic Energy Commission in the 1950s, and the Central Intelligence Agency in the 1960s, was a Bechtel man. So was George Schultz, the former secretary of state. And so, too, was Caspar W. Weinberger '38, the former secretary of defense who now publishes Forbes Magazine...
Towards the end of the war, a Bechtel subsidiary, Bechtel-McCone, started building bomber planes for the U.S. military. Afterwards, workers involved testified in court that Bechtel was guilty of war-profiteering, for adding fictitious overhead costs to the government's airplane bill. The charge was thrown out on a technicality...