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ran Nationa citlinés also had a con- tract with another New York public relations firm, Carl Byoir & Associates rae which receives $50,000 a year but isted no work performed on behalf of the airline when it reported to the Jus- tice Department fast autumn. ante reporting procedures of other merican agents representing “Arab clients also raise questions about com- ' pliance with the disclosure law. Con- sider the case of Adnan M. Khashoggi a Saudi Arabian millionaire business- man accused of serving as a middle- man in the payment of briv‘ss.by Ameri- can corporations, attempting to sell « weapons to his country. Law firm hired - Last summer, the Washington. law) firm of Chapman, Gadsby, Hannah and Duff was recruited by Khashoggi's prili? cipal corporation, Triad. Enterprises, to | monitor Congressional hearings that af= fected him. The lawyers, registered as foreign . agents, because: “the essential ownership of the company is Khashoggi and his brothers,” explained Norman s, Paul, a partner in the firm. “They'fe foreigners and we wanted to be in compliance with the law.” ‘ But Clark Clifford's law firm did:work for Khashoggi at about the same time —and it did not register as his Ameri- can agent. In more recent months, the influential Washington law firm of Ar- nold and Porter has been representing Khashoggi in negotiations with the Jus- tice Department and did not-register. , There is an exemption to the regis- tration requirement for :attorneys en- gaged in traditional {egal work—as | opposed to the quasi-lobbying activi- ° ties in which many Washington lawyers engage—but the law is murky in. that: - and several other areas, often. making it difficult to determine whether the rep- resentative of a ‘foreign power must register. ‘ i Another firm which has not regis- tered as a foreign agent representing. Arab interests is Martin Ryan Haley. & | Associates, the New York public ‘reli | tions and political consulting organizp~” tion which prepared the secret 19{4 document on Arab dat