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DALLAS (AP) — Ken Follett topped the Simon*, who led a well-executed but 111-
best-seller list* with his riveting Brltlah apy timed mission to an empty North Vietnamese
novel “Eye of the Needle." Now he Is well on POW camp In WTO, was deeply depressed over
his way up the non-fiction list with a Texas- his wife’s death and seized the offer by Perot
style thriller he says even he couldn’t have to lead the secret Iran mission. Follett said,
dreamed up. Follett said he received no guidance from
This real-Ufe story sprung from the mind of Perot, but said, "We had an agreement that If
Dallas computer multi-millionaire H. Roes he felt Simons was portrayed in a wildly inac-
Perot, who decided In 1978 to finance a com- curate way, the book would not be published.’’
mando raid Into revolution-torn Iran to spring “These men sitting here owe their lives to
two of his employees from Ghasr prison, a Jail him, ” Perot said of Simons,
fortress In the center of Tehran. The mission Perot said neither he nor EDS would profit
succeeded, thanks to a well-timed riot that from the book. ,
freed 11,000 prisoners. _ The book begins in 1978, but the story began
At a press conference Thursday, Follett told in 1976 when Perot sent William Gaylord and
reporters in his clipped British accent the plot Paul Chiapparone to Iran to oversee a $20
of “On Wings of Eagles.” As he introduced the million contract to computerize the country’s
characters in the story, he brought their real- social security programs,
life counterparts on stage — the two “$13 After the 1978 revolution, the new Iranian
million jailbirds, ” Perot and the employees of government began to allege fraud In the awar-
ds Electronic Data Systems who trained for <jing of the contract. The Health Ministry fell
and helped conduct the secret mission $5 million behind on payments. EDS had 131
“I couldn’t have dreamed this up,” said- employees In Iran.
Follett, who began the book two years ago at when EDS cancelled the contract and began
Perot’s request. to take its people out; Gaylord and Chiap-
Perot said he wanted the book written “as a parone were arrested and jailed. Their “bail”
permanent record for the men who did the was $13 million.
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k trait loomed on an easel beside the stage -Lt. Perot was willing to bail the two out, but
I Col. Arthur “Bull” Simons died three months because the banking system in Iran had col-
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 285, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 29, 1983, newspaper, September 29, 1983; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1152783/m1/3/: accessed June 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.