Billionaire Adnan Khashoggi was very proud as he stood on the site of the new Triad Center in Salt Lake City with Mormon Apostle Dallin Oaks, Emanuel Floor and his brother Essam Khashoggi on June 7, 1985. This day marked the gala groundbreaking of the Triad's twin 43-story towers and other buildings that made up the new master planned business center in downtown Salt Lake City. It also marked a symbolic unity between the Mormon religion, with its many similarities to Islam, and Adnan Khashoggi who was a Muslim of dubious character known for his global arms dealing. In fact, when he was in his mid-30’s, Khashoggi was already making a fortune brokering arms deals between US weapons manufacturers and the Saudi Royal Government in the 1960’s and 1970’s. His clients included Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Grumman Aircraft and Northrop Grumman and others that no longer exist because of industry consolidated between 1985.
 
By 1985, Khashoggi was a very sophisticated businessman who operated from multiple front companies in Switzerland and Lichtenstein that handled his commissions and oversaw contracts with CIA officers James Critchfield, Kim Roosevelt and Bebe Rebozo, a US businessman and Nixon associate. However, just the next year in 1986, Khashoggi was implicated in the Iran-Contra Affair, which put a damper on his nefarious activities and resulted in the bankruptcy of the Triad Center. The Iran-Contra Affair was an agreement by the US Government to sell arms to Iran even though the US was in the midst of an arms embargo with Iran. The clandestine sales transaction was made in the hopes of facilitating the release of the Iran hostages and allowing US intelligence agencies to fund the “contras” in Nicaragua. It was deals like this that made Khashoggi the richest man in the World by the mid-1980’s, and cemented his ties to the Mormon religion.

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