Study of the Hegemony of Parasitism - michaeljgoodnight.com

Even when occupied with good works, bread cast upon
the waters is returned.
On April 2, 1974, the Washington Post reviewed a
Mother Jones article which stated that a Bechtel
representative, Yoon Sik Cho, a Korean-American with
connections reaching to the Korean Presidency, had
bribed Korean officials to win four separate billion dollar
projects between 1978 and 1980. The Post said:
"The FBI, Justice Dept. and IRS are investigating allegations that the Bechtel
Corp., a large San Francisco conglomerate, used a paid consultant to bribe
South Korean officials between 1978 and 1980 to obtain nuclear power plant
construction projects in violation of the 1977 Corrupt Practices Act, sources
said yesterday."
Although the Post spent millions investigating Watergate,
it was content to rely on Mother Jones' slender resources
for this investigation. The Post continued: "The magazine
quoted an FBI informant as saying 'it was common
knowledge among lawyers at Bechtel that anyone who
didn't keep Weinberger informed would be on the street
the next day". The article cited a source close to
Weinberger as saying "Cap only wanted to know what it
was safe to know."
The article also pointed out that Shultz was the executive
sponsor for internal auditing during the time in question.
It said two audits were cancelled at Bechtel in 1980 'at
the insistence of Cho; those audits would have revealed
the large undocumented cash advances being paid to
Cho'." At the time of the bribery, Secretary of State
Shultz was president of Bechtel, and Secretary of