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Comment by Maas on September 3, 2011 at 7:24pm

"While at International Media Partners (IMP) we also created CEO Institutes, which ran events on global themes for the chief executives of big companies. Some of these business leaders were chillingly deal oriented, as I saw at a dinner one night when I was seated between the CEO of a leading aircraft manufacturer and Representative Pat Schroeder, then the ranking Democrat on the Armed Services Committee. The CEO leaned across me to speak to Representative Schroeder. “Here’s the deal,” he said. “I want to sell a plane to Muammar Qaddafi and he wants to buy one. But we have sanctions in place that won’t let me sell to him. The U.S. wants this guy dead. So what I’m thinking is, if you help me get the okay to sell him the plane, I’ll build it with explosive bolts connecting the wings to the fuselage. Then, one day he’s up flying over the Med and we push a button. He’s gone. I make my sale. Everyone’s happy."

 

 David Rothkopf, “Superclass” – Preface xix

 

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