Oriental Rugs the O'Connell NotesNotes on Prince Turki al-Faisal
Former Saudi Intelligence chief Prince Turki al-Faisal is now the Saudi ambassador to the UK. While he may call al Qaeda a ”cult” he stayed very close to Osama bin Ladeen up until just before 9/11 Middle America: Online NewsHour: Inside the Kingdom: Turki al-Faisal -- January 21, 2002 Born: February 15, 1945 Attended the Lawrenceville School, a private prep school in Lawrenceville, New Jersey Left Georgetown University in 1967, without a degree. 1977 appointed Director of the Saudi Intelligence Organization.
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Schleifer (C) and HRH Prince Turki Al
Faisal (R) at Royal Saudi Embassy reception at Claridges
in London following RUSI conference. The Safari Club In 1980, when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan, we in the Kingdom, with the United States, initiated a program of countering the Soviet invasion and helping the Mujahideen to repel the Soviets. I was directly involved in that situation, and now I will go back to the secret that I promised to tell you. In 1976, after the Watergate matters took place here, your intelligence community was literally tied up by Congress. It could not do anything. It could not send spies it could not write reports, and it could not pay money. In order to compensate for that, a group of countries got together in the hope of fighting communism and established what was called the Safari Club. The Safari Club included France, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, and Iran. The principle aim of this club was that we would share information with each other and help each other in countering Soviet influence worldwide, and especially in Africa. In the 1970s, there were still some countries in Africa that were coming out of colonialism, among them Mozambique, Angola, and I think Djibouti. The main concern of everybody was that the spread of communism was taking place while the main country that would oppose communism was tied up. Congress had literally paralyzed the work of not only of the US intelligence community, but of its foreign service as well. And so, the Kingdom, with these countries, helped in some way, I believe, to keep the world safe at the time when the United States was not able to do that. That, I think, is a secret that many of you don’t know. I am not saying it because I look to tell secrets, but because the time has gone and many of the actors are gone as well. Nobody is going to contradict me (laughter). Prince Turki Al Faisal - The Center for Contemporary Arab Studies
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