Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

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 tribes battle U.S. oil companies.
1969	Lives in the rain forest and the Andes. Experiences firsthand the deceitful and destructive practices employed by ...