Chapter 16
Pimping, and Financing Osama Bin Laden
This chapter involves that how project was finally approved by royal family and how MAIN gets the contract. The signed deal changed Saudi Arabia over night. Perkins describes that in order to get the deal signed every MAIN agent was assigned a government official to “wine, dine, coerce and convince”. In order to convince Prince W. Perkins was made responsible for his pleasure and happiness. Perkins had to locate an American woman to entertain Prince for his stays in Boston. Perkins had to even pay for expenses and supply each and every small thing that may be needed by Prince W. in order to convince him to sign the deal. Perkins knew that if he will fail in convincing Prince then everyone will…show more content… This chapter focuses on how the career of Perkins changed after the contract was signed. The staff grew at larger rate and made Perkins able to hire Russian economist from MIT. The economist had developed a statistical approach to “approve lending of huge amount to countries which are not able to pay it back”. The deal had an excellent effect on Perkins career as by 1977, Perkins had twenty people under him and was the youngest partner in the firm. He was named manager of Economics and Regional Planning and was lecturing at universities and solicited for news articles. The relationship between Torijos and Perkins started growing. Perkins was backed up b y his boss Bruno to publish an article in The Boston Globe which explained three main reasons for transferring canal to Panama. This was a smart move to make Torijos happy as if they were happy MAIN will continue in receiving huge contracts in the world where MAIN’s competitors were losing jobs out there. Greene was a fictional writer and he had the same motive as of Perkins i.e. to write articles in support of Torijos. Perkins met Greene at Panamanian hotel lobby and got engaged into meaningful and important conversation. Due to this Panama did get the canal back, but conformists swore they would get revenge for the
