The Bite of Benin Company Document

The bite of Benin Company document shows the plotters fretting that oil firms may not play ball after the coup. They were worried that like basically that some of these international companies would be like you illegally over through a government and maybe we don't want to do business with you which is weird because it means they had way more faith in the morality of oil company executives than anyone on earth ever has. So they had to assure the American government early on and that was something they like wrote into their plan. Under its strictures the coup plotters would have total control over the new president's schedule and what contracts he was allowed to sign. The Document itself notes quote the two most potent general