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	Bechtel Corporation—About Bechtel—Leadership—Riley Bechtel Biography
		Bechtel received a bachelor's degree in political science and psychology from the University of California at Davis.
		Bechtel is a director of Fremont Group; a member of J.P. Morgan Chase and Co.'s International Council; and a director of The Conservation Fund.
		Bechtel is an Honorary Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
	www.bechtel.com /rpbbio.htm (387 words)

	WEST PAPUA: We will be free! - NI 344 - Worldbeaters... Riley Bechtel
		Riley Bechtel, Chair and Chief Executive of Bechtel Enterprises, is a very wealthy man. According to Forbes magazine he had a net worth last year of more than $3.5 billion and was number 51 on the list of the richest people in the US.
		Riley Bechtel himself boasts membership of the shadowy Trilateral Commission and now wants to expand his fortune just a little more – on the backs of some of South America’s poorest families.
		As Bechtel’s emissaries hid in a local five-star hotel, the residents of Cochabamba staged a general strike that paralyzed the city.
	www.newint.org /issue344/worldbeaters.htm (825 words)

	Bechtel Has Ties in Washington, and to Iraq - Global Policy Forum - UN Security Council
		Bechtel's history in Iraq goes back to 1950, when it was hired by the Iraq Petroleum Company to build a 556-mile crude oil pipeline linking the oil fields in Kirkuk, in the Kurdish sector of northeastern Iraq, to the port of Baniyas in Syria.
		In 1983, Bechtel was negotiating to build an oil pipeline from Iraq to the Jordanian port of Aqaba, and the project was discussed privately by Mr.
		Bechtel later brought in as a partner Bruce Rappoport, a Swiss executive with ties to Israel, who sought to secure a promise from Israel not to attack the pipeline.
	www.globalpolicy.org /security/issues/iraq/after/2003/0418bechtel.htm (826 words)

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		Bechtel is widely perceived as the front-runner for future [Iraqi reconstruction] business as the U.S. spends up to $100 billion in what is seen as the biggest reconstruction project since World War II's aftermath.
		Bechtel's past, too rich to go into detail here, is fascinating in its contrivances — first by wooing Saddam Hussein as a suitor (with one Donald Rumsfeld popping a breath mint and holding the bouquet), then by punishing him by killing him for his rejection of its affections:
		Bechtel exemplifies "the revolving door between government and business that Washington has helped perpetuate for years," said Jim Vallette, a research director at the Institute for Policy Studies, a nonpartisan Washington-based think tank.
	skimble.blogspot.com /2003/04/riley-bechtel-and-crony-economy.html (705 words)

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		Bechtel became President and Chief Executive Officer in June 1990 and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Bechtel Group in January 1996.
		Bechtel worked for the law firm of Thelen, Marrin, Johnson and Bridges, where he engaged in legal work for Bechtel and various other clients.
		Bechtel is a director of the Fremont Group and J. Morgan Chase and Co. and serves on the Board of Trustees of the JASON Foundation for Education.
	www.ita.doc.gov /TD/PEC/rileybechtel.html (361 words)

	Articles 1999-2000--South Bend Riley Preview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Bechtel, in his first year at the helm, said about the focus for his 3-12 club," We are disappointed in the record while staying as positive as we possibly can.
		Riley is in a new school and new gym, located just north of the former Riley school located at Ewing and Fellows Streets in South Bend.
		Bechtel is altering his starting unit a bit for the tipoff with 5-8 junior Jeremiah Latham returning to the court and senior Adam Bartley becoming a leading reserve.
	www.goshenbasketball.org /history/years/1999-00/articles/rileyp.htm (594 words)

	In Bed with Bush — The Bechtel Story
		Bechtel, like all the rest of the handful of big corporations that effectively rule America, have their roots in the post-WWII economic 'boom' and the hysteria of the 'Red Menace'.
		Bechtel is a major player in the evolving struggle to control the world’s future water supply.
		Bechtel and other large corporations have been able to obtain legal title to much of the world's water supply through the process of privatization whereby goods and services previously considered part of the public domain become the exclusive property of a wealthy class of elites.
	www.informationclearinghouse.info /article3397.htm (2285 words)

	Forbes.com - Magazine Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Riley Bechtel is radically transforming the San Francisco- headquartered company founded by his great-grandfather 101 years ago.
		Riley Bechtel is a former lawyer and Stanford M.B.A. who worked at a law firm for two years before joining the family business.
		Bechtel contends he had no choice if the company wanted to get back into LNG engineering, which has been dominated for the past 20 years by a process owned by Air Products and Chemicals.
	www.forbes.com /global/1999/0531/0211036a_print.html (1328 words)

	Bechtel's Political Clout Helps Iraq Bid
		And Bechtel is widely perceived as the front-runner for future business as the United States spends up to $100 billion in what's seen as the biggest reconstruction project since World War II's aftermath.
		Bechtel says its politically connected executives are a small part of a 47,000-employee team working on 900 projects in nearly 60 countries.
		Bechtel's accomplishments range from the Depression-era Hoover Dam to the transformation of a former Saudi Arabian fishing village into Jubail, an industrial city expected to house 370,000 residents.
	foi.missouri.edu /execprivilege/bechtel1.html (496 words)

	Bechtel awarded Iraq contract: War profits and the US "military-industrial complex"
		Sheehan is responsible for Bechtel’s petroleum and chemical operations, and oversees the execution and strategy for the company’s activities in the Middle East, Europe, Africa and Southwest Asia.
		Bechtel’s chairman and CEO, Riley Bechtel, was appointed by Bush to the Export Council, which advises the president on international trade issues.
		Bechtel attempted to deal with the problem of Israeli cooperation through the intervention of Swiss billionaire Bruce Rappaport, who was a friend of Shimon Peres, the Labor Party leader and then-prime minister of Israel.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2003/apr2003/bech-a29.shtml (2095 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Business \| Bechtel's long game in the Gulf
		Bechtel executives are fond of telling how, after the company put in Jeddah's electrification system, the city's residents referred to "switching on the bechtel".
		So central a role did Bechtel have in the physical transformation of the fledgling Saudi state that it was viewed as being quite as well-entrenched as the company in charge of the oil.
		Bechtel's Iraq experience runs from the 1950s until the 1991 Gulf war when the company had to suspend work building a petrochemicals complex 60 miles south of Baghdad.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/business/2930457.stm (520 words)

	TIME 100: Builders & Titans - Stephen Bechtel
		Returning to active management, Bechtel spent six months every year roaming the world, hobnobbing with kings, presidents and foreign business magnates, fishing for projects.
		According to legend, on one trip to the kingdom Bechtel noticed the flames of natural gas being burned off at wellheads as he flew over.
		None of that has prevented the company, now headed by Riley Bechtel, a grandson of Steve's, from flourishing mightily.
	www.time.com /time/time100/profile/bechtel3.html (398 words)

	Global Exchange : Inside Bechtel's spin machine
		At a November 2003 meeting of company execs, Riley Bechtel directly addressed the looming exposé, while president and chief operating officer Adrian Zaccaria described it as "disturbing" and said, "We are going to suffer real, tangible harm from this story," according to a written copy of his prepared remarks.
		Another tactic, according to a December 2003 memo from Covey to Riley Bechtel and others, was to draft a "dummy" financial document to assuage the doubts of lending institutions.
		Bechtel's finance division was ordered to prepare a "dummy for contingency use with financial institutions," the memo says.
	www.globalexchange.org /countries/mideast/iraq/1829.html (1125 words)

	Riley P. Bechtel
		His father is Stephen D. Bechtel, Jr.[?], the former chairman and CEO of the company.
		After obtaining his law degree and MBA from Stanford University, Bechtel worked for the law firm of Thelen, Marrin, Johnson & Bridges.
		The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ri/Riley_P._Bechtel.html (200 words)

	Republican-Friendly Bechtel Wins $680m Iraq Contract
		Bechtel was offered a contract worth up to $680m (£430m) on Thursday to restore Iraq's water and electricity supply and build roads, schools, sewers and hospitals.
		Bechtel has made $1.3m in political donations over the past four years, 60 per cent of it to Republicans, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a Washington campaign watchdog.
		The Bechtel contract follows on from the even more controversial choice, made in the opening days of the war, to give management of Iraqi oil fires and oilfield reconstruction to Halliburton, the Texas oil services company where Vice President Dick Cheney was chief executive from 1995 to 2000.
	commondreams.org /headlines03/0419-04.htm (686 words)

	Bechtel wins Iraq contract - Apr. 17, 2003
		"Bechtel is honored to have been asked by USAID to help bring humanitarian assistance, economic recovery and infrastructure reconstruction to the Iraqi people," Tom Hash, President of Bechtel National, Inc., said in a release.
		The USAID also said Bechtel should "engage the Iraqi population" and "work to build local capacity." When USAID issued contracts to rebuild Kosovo in the late 1990s, it required that many of the subcontractors be local.
		In response, U.S. officials have noted that Bechtel and the other companies involved in the bidding are perfectly suited for the work, having a long history of experience in conducting major construction projects around the world.
	money.cnn.com /2003/04/17/news/companies/bechtel/index.htm (744 words)

	Analysis: Straight to Bechtel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Bechtel is supposed to rehab the test site, turn part of it into a bizarre tourist destination and, according to some insiders, prepare the grounds for another round of nuclear testing.
		Bechtel provided a similar service in 1965 when the CIA instigated the bloody coup that toppled President Sukarno of oil-rich Indonesia and put into place the corrupt and iron-fisted regime of General Suharto.
		Bechtel's experience in the privatization of public resources, while an unhappy one in Bolivia, proved a kind of corporate test-drive for the fire sale that would await the company in the wake of the war on Iraq and the toppling of Saddam's Ba'athist regime.
	www.occupationwatch.org /analysis/archives/2005/05/straight_to_bec.html (4692 words)

	THE DEMOCRACY CENTER ON-LINE: BECHTEL FALSIFIES THE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		As you know, in December I sent an e-mail to Riley Bechtel, CEO and chairman of Bechtel Enterprises, calling on him to drop his company's $25 million legal action against the people of Bolivia.
		Despite Bechtel's efforts, that article was syndicated nationwide and ran on January 14 in the Sacramento Bee.
		Bechtel, In December, when I wrote to you concerning your company's legal actions against the people of Bolivia, I did so in good faith.
	www.coli.uni-sb.de /~pietsch/stop-war/PineSGI41010201171403240943402-100000.html (1649 words)

	Water Wars: Bechtel’s Bloody Hands In Bolivia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Bolivian government is so committed to protecting Bechtel that it has declared martial law and killed its own people.
		While some in the government here are saying this afternoon that Bechtel will leave, given the government’s reversal on the same promise Friday the statement has no credibility here ansent a written agreement and end to martial law.
		Bechtel has a responsibility to honor the wishes of Bolivians and bring the crisis to an end by immediatley signing an agreement to turn the water system back over to Bolivians.”
	www.labournet.net /world/0004/bolivia1.html (1517 words)

	RILEY BECHTEL’S RESPONSE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		After receiving more than 100 e-mails from all over the world calling on Bechtel to drop its legal action against Bolivia, Mr.
		Bechtel directed his public relations spokeswoman, Gail Apps, to respond.
		Regretably, since Aguas del Tunari's forced departure last year, Cochabamba returned to allocating inadequate and unclean supplies of water, leaving 4 out of 10 people to fend for themselves and pay water truckers 10 or 20 times as much as water distributed directly to homes in pipes.
	www.democracyctr.org /bechtel/bechtelresponse.htm (627 words)

	DC Indymedia: newswire/2988 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Bechtel and let him know you believe water is a human right, not a commodity.
		Bechtel would be a hard boycott project because they are part of the defense industry.
		By Wednesday, April 5th, thousands of Bolivians from as far as seventy miles away were streaming into the city, fighting simultaneously against a plan to take control of rural water systems away from public control too.
	dc.indymedia.org /newswire/display_any/2988 (1153 words)

	WRITE TO RILEY BECHTEL TODAY! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Riley Bechtel, Chairman and CEO of Bechtel Enterprises.
		This will help send a message that Bechtel’s legal action against the people of Bolivia will not be carried out in secret, but in the public light, with Bechtel being held publicly accountable for its actions.
		I am also not fooled by your efforts to avoid responsibility by claiming that Bechtel is just one shareholder among many when, in fact, no company has a larger share of ownership or responsibility than you do.
	www.democracyctr.org /bechtel/writetoriley.htm (260 words)

	Polaris Institute - Public Service Workers Project - Bechtel Corporation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Bechtel Enterprises, a privately held firm, is the world’s largest construction company, having been involved heavily in the US’s construction boom in the post WWII period.
		Riley P. Bechtel, Bechtel CEO, is a member of the Business Roundtable and its policy committee (the Roundtable consists of the top CEOs in the country gathering to discuss economic policy and the means to influence policymakers) The roundtable is on the steering committee of US Trade, the group pushing Fast Track, as outlined above.
		Bechtel’s main purpose on this partnership is to keep the door open to future investment in Colombia and to push to continued access to Export-Import financing and OPIC insurance in Colombian ventures.
	www.polarisinstitute.org /corp_profiles/public_service_gats/corp_profile_ps_bechtel.html (3830 words)

	Public Citizen \| Critical Mass Energy and Environment Program \| Critical Mass Energy and Environment Program - Carta ...
		Ahora Bechtel y sus afiliados quieren indemnizaciones en efectivo.
		Pocas personas dudan en este país que Bechtel es capaz, recurriendo a trucos legales y a todo su poder, de sacar millones de dólares al Ministerio de Hacienda de Bolivia.
		Su departamento de relaciones públicas niega la responsabilidad de Bechtel en este asunto, alegando que su compañía es sólo un accionista minoritario en la empresa filial que hizo negocios en este país.
	www.citizen.org /cmep/Water/cmep_Water/reports/bolivia/articles.cfm?ID=8869 (1207 words)

	onesixsigma.com - Bechtel - Company Profile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Last year the company devoted $30 million to a program known as Six Sigma, with the aim of identifying and preventing rework and defects in everything from design to construction to on-time delivery of employee payroll.
		In fact, it was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Riley Bechtel himself who pushed the company into Six Sigma after seeing its success at General Electric and Motorola.
		Bechtel, which is a partner in the group responsible for the design, construction, and project management of ctrl, has brought Six Sigma into many aspects of the project.
	www.onesixsigma.com /info/company_profile/bechtel.php (1168 words)

	The Bechtel-bin Laden connection - May. 5, 2003
		Bechtel Corp., a private construction firm based in San Francisco, recently was awarded a State Department contract, potentially worth more than $600 million, to help rebuild Iraq's infrastructure after the recent U.S.-led war there.
		The Bush administration pushed for that war, in part, because it said the regime of Saddam Hussein, former leader of Iraq, had ties to the al Qaeda terror network, headed by bin Laden, the group allegedly responsible for the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the United States.
		Fremont Group, a San Francisco-based private investment firm, once was a unit of Bechtel, and its board still includes Bechtel CEO Riley P. Bechtel and former U.S. Secretary of State and former Bechtel President George P. Shultz, along with several current Bechtel directors.
	money.cnn.com /2003/05/05/news/companies/war_bechtel/index.htm (448 words)

	BECHTEL - THE CHENEY CONNECTION
		Bechtel’s Chairman and Chief Executive Riley Bechtel was recently appointed to President Bush’s export council.
		Bechtel has been put in charge of repairing power and water systems in Iraq – worrying since the company is one of the top water privatisation companies in the world.
		Bechtel's role in the reconstruction program is to restore connectivity to telephone subscribers in the Baghdad area, and to restore the fiber backbone to pre-conflict capability.
	www.greatdreams.com /political/bechtel.htm (8669 words)

	WorldNetDaily: U.S. tax dollars build nuke plant in China
		This loan financed Bechtel's sale of non-nuclear plant components to the China National Nuclear Corp. Days after winning re-election, Clinton declared this loan also to be in "the national interest." It was used for the third phase of the Qinshan plant.
		At the time of the Bechtel and Westinghouse-related loans, there were two vacancies on the board, and the three remaining members voted unanimously to send the money to China.
		"Bechtel is responsible for design and engineering of the major [non-nuclear] structures such as the turbine buildings, intake structure/pumphouse, water treatment plant, standby diesel generators buildings, auxiliary boiler building and outfall structure," he wrote.
	www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=22886 (1490 words)

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