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Saudi
by Joseph Polakoff
WASHINGTON, (JTA)-A
massive surge of American
support for Saudi Arabia, backed
by the desert kingdom's huge
surpluses of petro-dollars and
involving powerful U.S. political
and economic interests, emerged-in
the open last week.
In Washington, Saudi Arabia
was exposed as having retained the
U.S. public relations company of a
close friend and political associate
of the American Ambassador to
Saudi Arabia, John C. West, to
lobby in Congress for the 60 F-15
warplanes and also help improve
the relationship of Saudi Arabia
with Americans.
Frederick G. Dutton, the
Washington lawyer who was an
associate of President John F.
Kennedy and Sen. Robert F.
Kennedy, confirmed to the Jewish
Telegraphic Agency that he is on
an annual retainer of $200,000
from Saudi Arabia, plus four or
five trips to the Middle East each
year. The fee, he pointed out,
includes his office expenses. “It's a
lot of money though," he laughed.
Dutton, who observed that he
campaigned for Arthur J.
Goldberg when Goldberg was
running for Governor of New
York, has been working for the
Saudis since 1977 in a variety of
jobs. Among his tasks will be to
help get Congress not to object to
the warplanes President Carter has
put in a package for the Saudis
along with planes for Egypt and
Israel.
Reminded that he is considered
a good friend of Israel, Dutton
replied emphatically, "1 still am."
He added that he would like to see
Israel with secure and recognized
borders and that there should be
“some adjustment" to Israel’s
borders. He emphasized,however,
that the Israelis “must face
realities" which, he suggested, were
the 120 million Arabs against three
million Israelis and Arab resources
in oil and finance.
The public relations firm that
has received a contract from Saudi
Arabia includes Crawford Cook
who was Ambassador West’s
campaign manager in 1970 when
West was elected Governor of
South Carolina. Cook's firm has
received a contract for $65,000, the
Washington Post said, to promote
the sale of the F-15 planes to Saudi
Arabia during the next two
months and an additional
$100,000 as the “initial payment”
for a plan for promoting Saudi-
American relations. It is
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have millions of dollars in funds to
promote the Saudi effort.
Besides Dutton, Cook and his
associates, the Saudi campaign for
the aircraft and image building will
be assisted by Stephooen Conner,
a former vice president of Merrill
Lynch Pierce Fenner and Smith,
the'giant brokerage firm, who is a
financial and economic consultant
to the Saudi government. Another
consultant to the Saudis is former
Sen. J. William Fulbright, who
also is in the pay of the Persian
Gulf Emirates.
Clark Clifford, who was
counselor to President Truman’s
ideas for a viable Israel in the
difficult period when Israel's fate
was in question, is serving the
Algerian government, JTA was
told. Cook and an associate, it was
reported by the Washington Post,
worked for Sen. Ernest F. Hollings
(D. S.C.) before establishing their
present firm called Cook Ruef
Spann and Weiser. According to
the Post, their clients included
Democratic Senators Walter D.
Huddleston and Wendell Ford,
both of Kentucky and Robert
Morgan, North Carolina.
Meanwhile, in New York,
former Vice President Nelson
Rockefeller was reported “deeply
involved" in negotiating with
Saudi Arabia for a development
corporation that would use Saudi
money in food and energy projects
primarily in the United States but
also in underdeveloped lands.
George Woods, former World
Bank president, and Arthur
Taylor, former CBS president,
would be principals in the new
corporation to be based in New
York City, according to the New
York Daily News which quoted
Rockefeller on the subject.
In a related development, the
Coca Cola Company was reported
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by the New York Times to be
accelerating a campaign to enter
the Arab market with major new
projects in Saudi Arabia and
Egypt. Both are contingent, it was
said on its removal from the Arab
blacklist of American companies
doing business with Israel or which
have Jewish Americans in
important management positions.
Coca Cola has been barred for
more than 10 years by the Arab
Boycott Office for doing business
with Israel. In Egypt, Coca Cola is
reported as planning a plant in
Alexandria to produce soft drink
concentrates for the entire Middle
East. The Saudi project would
involve construction of a canning
factory.
Still another development that
entered the public domain that
reflected the tidal wave of Saudi
influence at a critical time in U.S.-
Isrmel relationships and the Middle
East peace process is a report of a
study by specialists of six nations.
The study, sponsored by the
Rockefeller Foundation, says an
oil supply drop in the 1980s may
split the industrialized nations and
raise new military threats in the
Middle East unless the oil
producing and oil consuming
nations coordinate their efforts.
This has been one of the major
arguments being advanced by the
Carter Administration for U.S.
association with Saudi ideas on
peace terms for Israel and which
Israel has been rejecting as
destructive for its nationhood.
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