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EDSCI's performance under the contract ...

    EDSCI did not materially breach its performance obligations under the

    contract; rather, EDSCI substantially performed in accordance with the

    description and timing of its duties for each applicable phase up until

    January 16, 1978, the date of termination of the contract ...

    Recovery under the contract is not barred by Defendants' claims,

    unsupported by the evidence, that EDSCI procured the contract by fraud,

    bribery or public corruption. Specifically, the evidence did not

    demonstrate that EDS' relationship with the Mahvi Group was illegal.

    EDSCI's execution of and performance under the contract violated no Ranian

    law ...

    Plaintiff introduced a plethora of evidence showing the fact and result of

    its services: testimony from those who managed and implemented the data

    processing systems, photographic evidence illustrating aspects of the data

    prepamtions functions developed, as well as reports jointly prepared by

    EDSCI and the Ministry of benefits being realized from the contract.

    Credible evidence failed to directly rebut this showing ...

(Extract from the Final Judgment)

rr is oRDEnD, ADjuDGED and DEcREw that Plaintiff Electronic Data Systems

Corporation Iran have and recover of Defendants The Government of Iran, The

Social Security Organization of The Government of Iran, and the Ministry of

Health and Welfare of The Government of Iran, jointly and severally, the sum

of fifteen adllion, one hundred and seventy-seven thousand, four hundred and

four dollars ($15,177,404), plus two million, eight hundred twelve thousand,

two hundred fifty-one dollars ($2,812,251) as prejudgment interest, plus one

million, seventynine thousand, eight hundred seventy-five dollars

($1,079,875) as attorneys' fees, plus interest on all such sums at the rate

of nine percent (9%) per annum from the date hereof, plus all costs of suit

herein ...

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Many people helped me by talking to me for hours on end, by replying to my

letters, and by reading and correcting drafts of the book. For their

patience, frankness, and willing cooperation, I thank especially the

following:

Paul and Ruthie Chiapparone, Bill and Emily Gaylord;

    Jay and Liz Coburn, Joe PocK Pat and Mary Sculley, Ralph and Mary Boulware,

    Jim Schwebach, Ron Davis, Glenn Jackson;

    Bill Gayden, Keane Taylor, Rich and Cathy Gallagher, Paul Bucha, Lloyd

    Briggs, Bob Young, John Howell, "Rashid," Toni Dvoranchik, Kathy Marketos;

T. J. Marquez, Tom Walter, Tom Luce;

Merv Stauffer, for whom nothing is too much trouble;

Margot Perot, Bette Perot;

John Carlen, Anita Melton;

    Henry Kissinger, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Ramsey Clark, Bob Strauss, William

    Sullivan, Charles Naas, Lou Goelz, Henry Precht, John Stempel;

Dr. Manuchehr Razmara;

Stanley Simons, Bruce Simons, Harry Simons;

Lieutenant Colonel Charles Krohn at the Pentagon;

Major Dick Meadows, Major General Robert McKinnon;

Dr. Walter Stewart, Dr. Harold Kimmerling.

As usual, I was helped by two indefatigable researchers, Dan Starer in New

York and Caren Meyer in London.

    I was also helped by the remarkable switchboard staff at EDS headquarters

    in Dallas.

More than a hundred hours of taped interviews were transcribed,

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mainly by Sally Walther, Claire Woodward, Linda Huff, Cheryl Hibbitts, and

Becky DeLuna.

Finally I thank Ross Perot, without whose astonishing energy and

determination not only this book, but the adventure that is its subject,

would have been impossible.

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