Mr. Khashoggi was in a unique position to help his country and serve the needs of companies wishing to penetrate the mysterious Middle East market. He chose the most important companies in each industry to represent, making propositions to such large US, French and British concerns as Lockheed, Northrop, Grumman, Raytheon, and Thomson, and soon developed a menu of powerful companies exclusively represented through his net- work. “We did good business with them. They wanted to sell their products and services, so we opened the market for them. Our turnover over time ballooned to about 10 billion dollars.