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Wilford, Hugh, 1965-
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United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
Middle East -- Relations -- United States -- History.
United States -- Relations -- Middle East -- History.
Arab countries -- Relations -- United States -- History.
United States -- Relations -- Arab countries -- History.
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America's great game...
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America's great game : the CIA's secret Arabists and the shaping of the modern Middle East / Hugh Wilford.
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Wilford, Hugh, 1965-
New York, NY : Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, c2013.
Subjects
United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
Middle East -- Relations -- United States -- History.
United States -- Relations -- Middle East -- History.
Arab countries -- Relations -- United States -- History.
United States -- Relations -- Arab countries -- History.
ISBN:
9780465019656 (hardback) :
046501965X (hardback)
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xxiv, 342 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.
Contents:
Part 1: Pre-game, 1916-1947. Learning the game ; Beginning the quest ; OSS/Cairo ; Great Game redux ; Zion ; The guest no one invites again -- Part 2: Warm-up, 1947-1949. Game plan ; The right kind of leader? Syria, 1949 -- Part 3: Winning, 1949-1956. American friends of the Middle East ; In search of a hero: Egypt, 1952 ; Mad men on the Nile ; Authoring a coup: Iran, 1953 ; From ALPHA ... ; Crypto-diplomacy ; Peacemakers -- Part 4: Losing, 1956-1958. ... to OMEGA ; Increasingly a vehicle for your purposes ; Archie's turn: Syria, 1956 ; Game on: Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, 1957 ; Game over.
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"The Central Intelligence Agency's reputation in the Middle East today has been marred by waterboarding and drone strikes, yet in its earliest years the agency was actually the region's staunchest western ally. In America's Great Game, celebrated intelligence historian Hugh Wilford reveals how three colorful CIA operatives--Kermit and Archie Roosevelt, and maverick covert-ops expert Miles Copeland--attempted, futilely, to bring the U.S. and Middle East into harmony during the 1940s and '50s. Heirs to an American missionary tradition that taught them to treat Arabs and Muslims with respect and empathy, these CIA "Arabists" nevertheless behaved like political puppet-masters, orchestrating coup plots throughout the Middle East while seeking to sway public opinion in America against support for the new state of Israel. Their efforts, and ultimate failure, would doom U.S.-Middle Eastern relations for decades to come. Drawing on extensive new material, including declassified government records, private papers, and personal interviews, America's Great Game shows how three well-intentioned spies inadvertently ruptured relations between America and the Arab world"--
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