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Confessions of an Economic Hitman John Perkins Ebury Press, UK,
2006, £7.99  JOHN PERKINS’ STORY of how he deliberately
facilitated international loans to countries which could not
possibly repay them is on a par with CIA agent Philip Agee’s
seminal work of 1975, CIA Diary: Inside the Company.  Agee
revealed how the CIA manipulated governments to keep them
sympathetic to US interests. His book was the first proof from
the inside that US foreign policy prioritised politicians who
allowed corporations free rein in their countries.  Now Perkins
has done the same for that shadowy world of management
consultancies which assess whether poor countries should receive
World Bank and other loans.  Campaigns to write off debt have
been built on the basis that it was poor judgement,