JOHN PERKINS PERSONAL HISTORY
1963 |
Graduates prep school, enters Middlebury College. |
1964 |
Befriends Farhad, son of an Iranian general. Drops out of Middlebury. |
1965 |
Works for Hearst newspapers in Boston. |
1966 |
Enters Boston University College of Business Administration. |
1967 |
Marries former Middlebury classmate, whose “Uncle Frank” is a top-echelon executive at the National Security Agency (NSA). |
1968 |
Profiled by the NSA as an ideal economic hit man. With Uncle Frank’s blessing, joins the Peace Corps and is assigned to the Ecuadorian Amazon, where ancient indigenous nations battle US oil companies. |
1969 |
Lives in the rain forest and the Andes. Experiences firsthand the deceitful and destructive practices employed by oil companies ... |
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