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modified to maintain the previously stated commission to "Mr.
Zand's companies" despite the reduction.
Another company used by petitioner in his dealings with
Lockheed was Sunvaco. Mr. Conley, a Lockheed official who had
met petitioner in 1971, was aware that petitioner, through WHIP,
already was Lockheed's representative for the sale of the C-130
aircraft. After this initial meeting, Mr. Conley and other
Lockheed officials met with petitioner, who introduced them to
Mr. Khalatbari and Mr. Zanganeh, and the three said they would
work as a group under the name of Sunvaco.7 On June 1, 1971,
Lockheed entered into a marketing consultant agreement with
petitioner and Sunvaco. Initially, petitioner and Sunvaco were
to receive a monthly retainer in the amount of $4,166.66.
Commission payments were to be set forth later. Petitioner
signed the agreement on behalf of himself and Sunvaco. On
October 29, 1971, this marketing agreement was modified to
provide a 3-percent commission to be paid on sales of Lockheed
Model P-3 Export Type Aircraft, a military aircraft. Further
amendments to this agreement and to the earlier agreement in
7 In 1981 petitioner wrote to Mr. Conley, who had been the president of
Lockheed's Tehran division, indicating that petitioner needed confirmation of
certain information in connection with an Internal Revenue Service
investigation that Lockheed had engaged the services of at least three
individuals when it retained Sunvaco. In response to petitioner's request,
Mr. Conley confirmed in writing his recollection that petitioner "did not have
all of the desirable capabilities to act as our marketing consultant in Iran"
and that he understood Sunvaco to involve the services of at least Khalatbari,
Zanganeh, and petitioner.
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