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What became of the US State Department's human rights investigation into Freeport-McMoRan in West Papua, Indonesia?Eyewitness reports of killings near Freeport-McMoRan's Grasberg mine in West Papua, Indonesia-alleging company involvement-reached Washington. The State Department opened a human rights investigation-then the report vanished from public view.In this second volume of Archives of a Wall Street Analyst, former Wall Street mining analyst John Wilson follows the paper trail through cables, press reporting, and more than a decade of FOIA requests and litigation-asking what the State Department found, and why the report still has not surfaced.He widens the lens to ""development aggression"" the recurring machinery by which remote extractive projects become zones of coercion, security force violence, displacement, environmental harm, and narrowed Indigenous consent. Reviewing thirty comparative case studies, Wilson shows recurring patterns of allegations, denials, and moral trade-offs repeating across borders and legal systems-revealing how social and political costs are externalized when extraction meets weak oversight and high strategic value.Wilson also places his own story alongside the archive. After publishing a March 1996 analyst report on Freeport that touched on human rights and political risk, the FBI targeted him with surveillance, workplace interference, attempted entrapment, and intrusion into his personal and professional life. Later disclosures by FBI operatives reveal the motive and extent of the retribution. Part narrative, part documentary archive, this volume invites readers to test the evidence-and decide what a missing report reveals about power, accountability, and who pays the price.

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John Christian Wilson is a former Wall Street mining analyst whose work examines extractive-industry power, government secrecy, and human rights. He covered major mining companies, including Freeport-McMoRan, for SG Warburg and SBC Warburg (now part of UBS) in New York in the 1990s. A dual Australian/US citizen, he currently lives in Sydney with his wife and two children. He holds degrees from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (MBA), the University of Sydney (BE), and the University of Queensland (BA).Wilson is the author of The Untold Story of the FBI: Archives of a Wall Street Analyst: DOJ, Volume 1 and continues the series with evidence-led narrative and documentary archive works built from primary documents including contemporaneous records, State Department cables, media and human rights reports, FOIA requests, and litigation records.

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