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I think this company is bogus, meaning fictitious, made up by the communist john perkins, to substantiate his stories. Does it have any connections to the NSA?

A quick google search shows abundant independent evidence that the company existed during the period covered by Perkins' book. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Aseriesoftubes (talk • contribs) 23:20, 30 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! In fact, don't running a website as a company doesn't mean that the company possibly doesn't exist. Is there any public register where a civilian can validate that this company exists? That's a huge problem in our system... Free enterprise economy is a great thing... But without market- and company-monitoring for perusal, those articles can't be validated... Happy X-mas! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.187.21.65 (talk) 19:08, 19 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

According to the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts and the United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit, it's a real company. See Chas. T. Main International, Inc. v. Khuzestan Water & Power Authority, et al., 500 F. Supp. 1162 aff'd 651 F.2d800. The opening paragraph at the Court of Appeal says,

Chas. T. Main International, Inc. (Main) is an engineering firm incorporated in Massachusetts and having its principal place of business in Boston. On November 20, 1979, Main brought suit in the District Court for the District of Massachusetts against the government of Iran and various Iranian governmental entities to obtain payment for services it had rendered in Boston and Iran in connection with certain Iranian electrification projects...

You can fake a web page, perhaps, but you can't fake a Court of Appeal decision.

^[1] --Terazol (talk) 06:19, 5 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Still the question remains whether this should be part of Wikipedia. And if it will, then I believe this article needs to be heavily expanded. Right now there is hardly any objective point of view about it made herein. No records of important or "big" projects? Revenue generated? "Famous" People working for it? And so on.. 80.108.103.172 (talk) 01:55, 11 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

^ Chas. T. Main International, Inc. v. Khuzestan Water & Power Authority, et al., 500 F. Supp. 1162 aff'd 651 F.2d800 [*802]

[1] Chas. T. Main International, Inc. v. Khuzestan Water & Power Authority, et al., 500 F. Supp. 1162 aff'd 651 F.2d800 [*802]

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