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- Red Carpet, The
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| # | Date | Publisher | Binding | Cover |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1990-00-00 | American Bureau of Economic Research |  |
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- Expose of the complex business and political relations of some of the world's wealthiest businessmen and the Soviet Union. Profiles Armand Hammer, David Rockefeller, Cyrus Eaton, Averill Harriman and Donald Kendell.
The Connection Between The Kremlin and America's Most Powerful Businessmen.a controversial exposé about multi-millionaire Dr. Armand Hammer's ties to Soviet intelligence. Though Hammer threatened a libel suit, the fall of the Soviet Union opened archives that verified the truth of Finder's account-non-fiction.
THE CAPITALISTS, LENIN CLAIMED, will sell Russia the rope it needs to hang them. If that is true, then Armand Hammer, Averell Harriman, the late Cyrus Eaton, Donald Kendall, and David Rockefeller rank among the chief rope~sellers. They are America's aristocrats, who, because of their personal wealth and influence in the corporate world, have gained access to both the White House and the Kremlin. They have always couched their activities in terms of business: Hammer, as chairman of Occidental Petroleum and promoter of countless other enterprises; Harriman, in his early days as a concessionaire of natural resources; Eaton, as an iconoclastic anti~Wall Street multimillionaire; Kendall as chairman of PepsiCo; Rockefeller as chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank. Yet they consider themselves as much more than businessmen, and their activities go far beyond mere commerce. They act as interlopers between the likes of Lenin, Khrushchev, and Brezhnev, and FDR, JFK, and Nixon. Often only they have the power to get done certain things that need doing. But these men are not diplomats, and their behind~the~scenes activities often run counter to U.S. diplomatic efforts and non~business interests. Red Carpet, based on extensive interviews and investigations conducted in both the United States and the Soviet Union, describes these men, their power, their vanities, their business dealings. With a keen sense of the ideological ironies involved, the book explores not only what these men do but why they do it, and what role they play in international politics. It is the exciting, revealing, very ironic history of the hushed side of U.S.U.S.S.R. relations.