Suez Crisis event
also: the 1957 Suez Crisis, Anglo-French-Israeli action against the Suez, Suez, Suez Canal whole crisis, Suez Canal crisis, Suez dilemma, Suez operation, trying to kill Nasser
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Claims (4)
Gamal Abdel Nasser carried_out_attack
Suez Crisis host_asserted
“leading to a general Middle East plan called Omega and its Syrian component called Project Wakeful. All this happened before Suez. So again, it wasn't because of the Suez, it all happened before that. A crisis that would be exceedingly unco…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 13 (14) @ 24:30
France carried_out_attack
Suez Crisis host_asserted
“Because they all want not just fake colonialism gone, they want it really gone. So France would join with Britain in a military scheme to invade Egypt and retake the canal. To provide the excuse, the French enlisted Israel to make its own a…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 13 (14) @ 25:35
United Kingdom carried_out_attack
Suez Crisis host_asserted
“Because they all want not just fake colonialism gone, they want it really gone. So France would join with Britain in a military scheme to invade Egypt and retake the canal. To provide the excuse, the French enlisted Israel to make its own a…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 13 (14) @ 25:35
Israel carried_out_attack
Suez Crisis host_asserted
“Because they all want not just fake colonialism gone, they want it really gone. So France would join with Britain in a military scheme to invade Egypt and retake the canal. To provide the excuse, the French enlisted Israel to make its own a…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 13 (14) @ 25:35
Mentions (26)
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had provided lessons for Allen, and he reapplied them to this Indonesia operation. When Soviet tanks in Hungary squashed the uprising, the entire CIA operation was sacrificed on John Foster's instructions because of his strategy with the Su…
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Persian Gulf. And they didn't actually withdraw. They were kicked out. They were kicked out of almost all of the countries to include Iran when they tried to overthrow Mosaddegh in 1953. They later got back in when they reinstalled the Shah…
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He would eventually die of cancer in 1959, and the continuing crisis that followed Hungary took a great toll on him. One of the new plans originating in the months before the Suez, a CIA contract officer assigned for purposes of cover to th…
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In fact, however, the British seem to have manipulated the CIA into timing the operation for precisely the beginning of the Anglo-French-Israeli action against the Suez. The coup project collapsed as key Syrian and Iraqis became convinced t…
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And this is about 1956 with the Suez Crisis. Now, as I was speaking with ChatGPT, because obviously I was feeding your questions to your guest into ChatGPT to get answers, it came up with some really interesting stuff that it said the reaso…
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that were in different allied sort of partnerships to what they are today by quite a long way, that this book and the tension and the assassination plot and the Suez Canal whole crisis in 56 may, in my thoughts so far, and this is where I w…
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that the United States would not step in. And all of this basically led to the Suez crisis. And then, bizarrely, Nasser's son appears. I didn't realise this, or grandson. Do you know about this? His son or grandson appears in this, like, se…
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It is on my side, but that doesn't necessarily mean much. Yeah, it's not working at all. All along, go ahead. Hi, Fertile. Relating to this absolutely pivotal point that the earlier speaker brought up, relating to the role of Israel, Egypt,…
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And by the way, JFK is intimately connected to this because he differed very strongly on Nasser from CIA. Yeah. And so I think the important part of this whole thing is the Suez Canal. If you look at the trillions of dollars worth of the th…
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Hungary may have been a crisis in the Middle East, but the Middle East fell into full-scale war. Powerful distractions drew Eisenhower away from Europe. The known issues of Anglo-French invasion of the Suez and the collision of those powers…
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But Suez represented only the tip of the iceberg and much that lay below the surface involved secret warriors. One plan originated months before Suez, a CIA contract officer assigned for cover purposes to the Operations Coordination Board, …
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project the CIA man had never heard of. In Washington, he discovered that a planning task force called Omega had already formed at the State Department. In fact, Eisenhower had approved this project in March of 1956. Allen Dulles called the…
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leading to a general Middle East plan called Omega and its Syrian component called Project Wakeful. All this happened before Suez. So again, it wasn't because of the Suez, it all happened before that. A crisis that would be exceedingly unco…
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The CIA's Cairo station under James Eichelberger had no advanced warning. What was he doing? The Egyptian move brought outrage from Britain. France saw Nasser as allied to quote-unquote revolutionaries that it was fighting in Algeria. That …
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Because they all want not just fake colonialism gone, they want it really gone. So France would join with Britain in a military scheme to invade Egypt and retake the canal. To provide the excuse, the French enlisted Israel to make its own a…
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the warring side. So they're going to pretend like they're the peacekeepers. The maneuver patently colonialist in its aim of restoring British dominion over the canal would conflict directly with American rhetoric for democracy and self-det…
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while his administration plotted coups with the British in Syria. The connection threatened to associate the U.S. with Britain's neocolonialism. Eisenhower strove to avert a British military action by negotiating, but neither the British no…
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Later, the U-2 would capture the very moment of the British bombing the Egyptian airfield. Because if you look at their air, their pattern of flying, and they were specifically tasked to fly for this mission. It's crazy. The war began with …
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among the Druze tribesmen. Combined with the border crisis with Turkey, which of course is NATO, so they're going to create a border crisis, the British manipulated the CIA, they didn't manipulate the CIA, into timing the operation for prec…
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Indeed, Foster pursued the secret war with the same zeal and energy he displayed in covering distances headed for diplomatic meetings, making himself the most traveled Secretary of State in American history at that time. Of course, Foster k…
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for an audience that was being activated. And at least they could hear that argument of, as in, we don't want to be like England or France. And you see that manipulated in Suez Canal crisis. But anyway, the short version is, I think, that j…
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Before the Suez Canal crisis of 1956, there was a tendency among the U.S. and British oil companies to kind of bicker among themselves more, although they always had some similarities. But afterwards, they were more united in responding to,…
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plot against Hitler onward. Later in his career, any nationalist leader who seemed a problem for the U.S. interest, not the U.S. interest, the international syndicate's interest, was viewed as fair game. During the 1957 Suez Crisis, as a gr…
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in September of 1938. You know, like the communists are coming over the mountain. In November 1956, he fully supported the Anglo-French invasion of Egypt. Astounded by the international outcry that the Suez operation caused, Roebke despaire…
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to the Mount Palarin Society. Even at the heart of an organization little suspected of sympathy towards communism, Roebke personified a hard line. In shock of the events in the Suez and Budapest, a German sociologist wrote, quote, it is har…
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as well as concerns about the dramatic events in Eastern Europe. Along with the Suez Canal in the Middle East, this was the area where developments could unexpectedly erupt. Political analysis of the State Department noted that workers' rio…