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...April the SEC charged Page with making sham deals overseas to hide various payoffs in connection with the sale of four Gulfstreams to Saudi Arabian Airlines between 1975 and 1977 and the 1975 sale of a Gulfstream to Morocco. The total unaccounted-for funds, says the commission: $5 million...
During the next four months, Dayan flew incognito to many Muslim countries. He met at least twice with Jordan's King Hussein and Egyptian officials and three times with King Hassan II of Morocco. He also met twice with the Shah of Iran, who had taken an active role in trying to encourage a Middle East settlement...
...center of this diplomatic activity was Morocco, which has had close but secret relations with Israel since 1962. In the summer of 1976, while Sadat was visiting Rabat, King Hassan invited Yitzhak Rabin, then the Israeli Premier, to make a secret trip to Morocco. During the ensuing visit, Hassan urged Rabin to negotiate directly with the Egyptians, and said that he would try to arrange a meeting. Rabin, who is well known for his wariness and caution, was delighted. "There are many issues," he assured the King, "that can be solved in direct, face-to-face negotiations...
...their summit meeting near Rabat, Hassan urged Rabin to begin by meeting quietly with the Saudis, who bankroll the Egyptian economy. With Rabin's approval, Hassan then proceeded to arrange a rendezvous in Morocco between the Israeli Premier and Saudi Arabia's influential Crown Prince Fahd. Fahd agreed to the meeting, but a week before it was to take place, in early 1977, the Saudis canceled it without explanation...
Although the Rabin-Fahd meeting was aborted, the Premier's mission to Morocco led directly to a series of sessions between top-level Egyptian and Israeli intelligence officials in Rabat. By the time the Israelis learned, through intelligence sources in Libya, of the radical Arab plotting against Sadat and the other moderate Arab leaders, Menachem Begin had become Israel's Premier. Begin ordered Israeli Intelligence Chief Yitzhak Hoffi to fly to Morocco to deliver the information directly to his Egyptian counterpart, General Mohammed Shoukat...