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...fact, Mallard says he believes that duringthe 1980s the Reagan and Bush administrationsshielded Saudi officials from such complaints inorder "not to rock the boat" with the Saudi royalfamily...
...more than a decade, State DepartmentArabists have obfuscated investigations and aidedand abetted the Saudis every chance they got,"Mallard charges...
...Mallard accuses State Department Arabists ofbeing swayed from their duties both by SaudiArabia's strategic importance to the U.S. and by atacit "understanding" that when they leave thedepartment the Saudis will provide them withlucrative jobs...
...They have been selling the human rights ofU.S. citizens to the [Saudi Arabian] royalfamily," says Mallard, who also suggests thatprivate Saudi oil investments by influentialgovernment officials have been a factor in theState Department's lack of action on his case...
State Department accounts of the case havediffered throughout from Keene and Maes' version,Mallard said. Department officials contacted inearly 1980 said that they had never said SaudiArabia was a safe place to work, despite Keene'ssigned affidavit to the contrary...