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To: paul_philp who wrote (72538)	2/9/2003 12:57:46 PM
From: Alastair McIntosh	Respond to of 281500

Hi paul_philp. CB asked for names of U.S. companies that skirted U.N. sanctions. I think that you are mistaken about Haliburton. I have not seen any evidence indicating that any of the contracts in question made with Iraq by joint ventures of Haliburton's subsidiary Dresser Industries were not submitted to the UN for approval under the "oil-for-food" program. The contracts may have been structured to avoid the U.S. Iraq Sanctions Act but that is another story. Even if that were the case it was perfectly legal and practiced by many U.S. firms. In any case Dresser was doing business with Iraq when acquired by Haliburton in Sept 1998. Dresser was sold a year later. Whether Cheney even was aware of the small sales by Dresser's joint venture is questionable.