The Company He Keeps
August, 1992
My first glimpse into how Ross Perot operates came in. 1969, when some of his eager employees showed up in Indochina to try to deliver Christmas parcels to American POWs in Hanoi. I was a CIA officer posted in Saigon at that time, and I watched his staff bustle around the embassy like spoiled rich kids, ordering up services and information as if they were in a first-class hotel and blithely ignoring those who had seen too much of the war to share their can-do optimism. For them, action was every...
