"Another document in the archives quotes a dispatch from a British ambassador saying the family of Prince Sultan "had a corrupt interest in all contracts"." (A former senior US military adviser in Saudi Arabia recently told me that Prince Khalid Bin Sultan insisted on a 1% cut on all contracts during the 1991 US war on Iraq. He said that Khalid made close to half a $billion. The case so angered members of the royal family, that his father sent him out of the kingdom for a while, he told me).