   bandar bin sultan () (born 2 march 1949) is a member of the house of saud and was saudi arabia's ambassador to the united states from 1983 to 2005. in 2005, he was named as secretary general of the national security council. he was director general of the saudi intelligence agency from 2012 to 2014. on 1 july he was appointed king abdullah's special envoy. ==early life== bandar was born officially on 2 march 1949 in taif. his actual date of birth is later according to himself and western think tanks. he had reportedly faked his birthday to enter the royal saudi air force, his mother, khiziran, was a sixteen-year old commoner from asir province and his father, sultan bin abdulaziz, was in 
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