Relations with United States

This file concerns Saudi Arabia’s relations with the US. It contains correspondence and memoranda relating to:

• King Faisal Bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia’s suspicion that there might be a secret Soviet-US agreement on the Middle East, which confines US interests to Israel and gives Russia a free hand elsewhere
• King Faisal’s concerns over a potential socialist revolution that is being plotted to detach the western province of Saudi Arabia from the East
• The Soviet Union’s influence in South Yemen and elsewhere
• The sale of Phantom aircraft to Israel
• Kuwait’s intention to purchase Soviet military equipment
• Saudi efforts to postpone any proposals to replace the US Ambassador in Jeddah Herman Eilts
• Saudi Arabia’s internal security
• Saudi Arabia’s intention to cooperate with the Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi to bring about a settlement of Gulf problems
• The Arab-Israeli dispute
• A cutting in Le Monde, ‘La résistance palestinienne a droit à l’aide matérielle’ [The Palestinian Resistance is entitled to material assistance], 30 October 1968
• Arrangements for Prince Fahd Bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud to visit Washington, DC in October 1969
• Governor William Scranton’s visit to Saudi Arabia in December 1968.