Afghan example...

Found this at randomwalks...

January 04, 2002
Hamed Karzai worked as a consultant for the huge US oil group Unocal, which had supported the Taleban movement and sought to construct a pipeline to transport oil and gas from the Islamic republics of Central Asia to Pakistan via Afghanistan.
Saudi paper profiles new Afghan leader (Financial Times)-

Karzai is the "head" of the Afghan government, placed there, by our government... and former consultant for Unocal. Just thought that was interesting in light of his visit to Washington today.