' rein Payments Only a Part CIA in Mideast: Extensive, Effective 212477 By Jim Hoagland deals to its friends; but one American Adham, brother-in-law of the late Witehhottco Poet Poreish Service, investigator who looked at these large King Faisal, has also become one of PARIS. Feb. 21—Cash payments to commissions labels some of them as the Middle East's most important "reaching in" efforts by the agency to businessmen, garnering commissions Jordan's King Hussein are part of one. get at Arab rulers through well-placed for the sale of Boeing and Lockheed of the Central Intelligence Agency's middlemen disposed to help the CIA. aircraft, among other items, through a most effective and wide-reaching The time, effort and whatever cash corporation controlled by his family funding and intelligence-gathering op- the agency has invested in building and associates. erations, according to informed up a network of close and interlock- Like Hussein, Adham is a pivotal sources In Europe and the Middle ing relationships with key Arab poli- figure in Arab politics whose influ- East. cymakers appears to have paid off ence and business arrangements reach Other Arab leaders and business- handsomely for CIA objectives. beyond the borders of his own coun- men who, like Hussein, have cooper. Hussein is one of the two most im- try. He is extremely close to the Saudi ated with the agency. in extending portant Arab policymalters whose ruling family on the one hand and to American influence in the oil-rich close ties to the CIA have long been Egyptian President on • Persian Gulf area dining the eclipse considered a more or less open secret the other. of British power there have collected in the Arab world, where there has Adham's closest friends in Saudi tens of millions of chillers in commer- been little public political controversy Arabia describe him as "a friend of cial fees from American defense in- over their roles. See MIDEAST, Al2, Col. 3 dustry firms. The other is Kamal Adham, Saudi No evidence has surfaced that the Arabia's head of national security and Secretary of State Vance ends week- CIA directly channeled lucrative arms liaison man with the CIA. long Middle East trip. Page A13.

JO' CIA's Operations in Mideast MIDEAST, From Al America" and as one of the shrewd- est political operators in the Middle East. While Sadat's predecessor, , was trying to over- throw the conservative Saudi regime in the 1960s, Adham carefully culti- vated Sadat. An authoritative source who declined to provide any other details. said that at one point Adham was providing Sadat, then Egyptian vice president, with a steady private income. In September 1970, Sadat . became president on Nasser's death and eight months later had crushed a Soviet- 'backed plot to overthrow him. Intelli- gence sources have suggested that the CIA alerted Sadat to the plot. Sadat changed the shape of Middle East politics in July 1972 by abruptly expelling the 15,000 Soviet military advisers Nasser had allowed to be posted in , paving the way for the diplomatic honeymoon Sadat en- joyed with former Secretary of State Henry A Kissinger after the 1913 Arab-Israeli war. Saudi Arabia and Jordan have also been essential footholds for expand. ing American influence In the Persian Gulf, according to many sources in that area. Hussein used his personal influence to help draw Oman's Sultan Qaboos Bin aid closer to the American sphere of influence. An influential- to-be- tween in that relationship was a Sa- NWICI, Moran terr The WuhWitco Post udi-born Jordianiart businesainan 44Cnrdlsh rebels b Zraq' goi6iittItrain Jordan's King Hussein. named Ghassan Shaker, who has be

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