Word: arabia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...widely publicized 1985 incident, Safranwas criticized for not disclosing that he hadreceived CIA funding for a Harvard conference onthe Middle East. It was further discovered thatSafran had granted the CIA pre-publication reviewof his latest book on Saudi Arabia. After aninvestigation by the dean of the Faculty, Safranresigned his post as director of the Center forMiddle Eastern Studies...
...only three semesters; wheeling and dealing would provide the rest of his education. In 1956 Khashoggi garnered a contract to supply trucks for the Saudi army. The pattern was set: the deal, the commission, the party, more contacts and contracts. By 1962 Khashoggi was the sales agent in Saudi Arabia for Chrysler, Fiat, Westland Helicopters Ltd. and Rolls-Royce. "One association," he says, "led to another, one business to another." For Western companies, Khashoggi was the man to know in Saudi Arabia...
...their defense needs and make recommendations as to what they should buy. As a result, Khashoggi had the inside track and locked up sales-agency rights with such U.S. firms as Lockheed, Raytheon and Northrop. He eventually won exclusive commissions on 80% of all U.S. military sales to Saudi Arabia...
...prices gave them billions to spend on whatever weapons they desired. "That's when the middlemen like Khashoggi really started to make their killings," says one Middle Eastern arms dealer. "It was the gold rush of the 20th century. Every con man in the world was in Arabia." Between 1970 and 1975, Lockheed alone paid Khashoggi $106 million in commissions. During this same period, he is said to have collected hundreds of millions from other corporations. Khashoggi, says Max Helzel, then vice president of Lockheed's international marketing, "became for all practical purposes a marketing arm of Lockheed. Adnan would...
...wears with Westerners, between the austere ethos of Mecca and the hedonism of Marbella. "When I am among you," he says, as if addressing all of the West, "I do as you do so well that practically I am one of you. But when I am in Saudi Arabia, I am a real Saudi Arabian. I obey and preserve the customs and traditions that give Saudi Arabia its identity and moral strength...