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Lazaron, Morris,
87
,
90
,
91
,
125
,
182

Le Carré, John,
251
,
295

Lebanon,
40
,
79
,
180
,
185
,
230
,
231
,
236
,
243

and AMCOMLIB,
250
,
255

anticommunist purge in,
105

Britain and,
34–35
,
268
,
288

CIA station in,
65
,
72
,
73
,
96
,
114

contingency planning for joint intervention in,
275

deteriorating conditions in,
296

execution of Syrian nationalist in,
107

Foster Dulles’s logic about,
265

France and,
8
,
77
,
268
,
288

Palestinian refugees in,
121

and regime change in Syria,
255–256
,
270

sectarian uprising in,
286

Syrian destabilization of,
269

US troops landing in,
288–289

See also
American University of Beirut (AUB)
;
Expedition 90

Lend-Lease operation,
32
,
33
,
38
,
48
,
61

Levant,
6
,
26
,
36
,
44
,
65
,
94
,
96–97
,
108
,
236
,
247
,
255
,
268

See also specific countries of the Levant

Levison, George L.,
87–88
,
89
,
91
,
92
,
121
,
125
,
177
,
178
,
235

Libya,
241

Lilienthal, Alfred A.,
235
,
237

Linebarger, Paul M. A.,
157

Lippman, Thomas W.,
63

Lloyd, Selwyn,
213
,
223
,
224
,
257
,
274
,
275

Lockerbie airline bombing,
297

Lodge, Henry Cabot,
10
,
11

London.
See
Britain

Lovett, Robert A.,
282

Luce, Henry,
184
,
233

“Luck Be A Lady Tonight” (song),
171

LUCKY BREAK (MI6 source),
213
,
214

Lufkin, John,
296

“Lure of the East, The” (Kim Roosevelt),
3

Machiavellianism,
149
,
159
,
203
,
211
,
243
,
299

Machiavellians, The
(Burnham),
149
,
159

Maclean, Donald,
169

Macmillan, Harold,
34
,
197
,
198
,
213
,
262
,
263
,
264
,
274
,
275
,
276

Magsaysay, Ramón,
151

Makins, Roger,
141
,
223
,
224

Malik, Charles,
243

Mallory, Lester,
265

Management engineering,
150

Mandelstam, Robert S.,
227
,
228

Manhattan Project,
71

Manning, Olivia,
36

Maraghi, Murtada al-,
140

Maronites,
26
,
268
,
288

Marshall, George C.,
54
,
91
,
93

Marshall Plan,
54
,
81
,
82
,
86
,
226

Marx, Karl,
149

MASK operation,
258–259
,
264

Materialism,
123
,
124

McCarthy, Joseph,
45
,
162

McCarthyism,
45
,
128

McClintock, Robert,
287
,
288

McGhee, George C.,
115

McGraw-Hill,
294

Meade, Stephen J.,
99–101
,
102
,
103
,
104–105
,
106
,
107
,
108
,
137
,
139
,
152
,
165
,
168
,
296
,
297

Mecom, John W.,
238

Mesopotamia.
See
Iraq

MI6,
163
,
164
,
165
,
166
,
169
,
172
,
174
,
213
,
214
,
219
,
221–222
,
224
,
225
,
227
,
256
,
257
,
259
,
263
,
264
,
294
,
298
,
299

Middle East.
See specific Middle Eastern countries, organizations, events, and people

Middle East Institute,
236

Middle East Journal
,
84

Middle East Policy Planning Group,
225
,
254

Military rule, countenancing,
109

Ministry of National Guidance,
157

Minor, Harold B.,
240

Missionaries, influence of,
21–22
,
26
,
64
,
80
,
85–86
,
89
,
140
,
243

Mitchell, Michael G.,
65
,
96
,
100
,
103
,
113
,
114
,
115
,
131
,
144

Mitchell, Richard Paul,
137–138

Modernity/modernization,
22
,
82
,
83
,
101
,
106
,
109
,
123–124
,
134
,
140
,
142
,
151
,
184
,
204
,
240–241
,
242

Mohieddin, Zakaria,
155
,
197
,
208
,
212
,
226

Molloy, Robert W.,
272

Moncef Bey,
28

Moose, James S.,
220
,
247
,
281

Moralistic idealism, compromising,
109

Morocco,
21
,
23–27
,
289

Mosaddeq, Mohammed,
3
,
53
,
116
,
160–162
,
163–168
,
169–174
,
175
,
184
,
203
,
225
,
249
,
279

Moscow.
See
Soviet Union/Russia

Mossad,
206
,
281

Mott, William E.,
11

Mukhabarat,
151

Murphy, Robert,
289

Muslim Brotherhood,
81
,
82
,
98
,
138
,
155
,
158
,
159

Muslim-Christian alliance.
See
Christianity and Islam, alliance between

Mussolini, Benito,
149
,
155–156
,
213

Mutual Assistance Program,
190

“Mysterious Doings of CIA, The” (Harkness and Harkness),
173–174

Nabulsi, Sulayman al-,
265
,
266
,
267

Naguib, Muhammad,
137
,
139
,
140
,
142
,
146
,
158
,
159
,
190
,
194
,
282

Nasser, Gamal ‘Abdel,
267
,
281
,
298

AFME’s support of,
183
,
184
,
238
,
239
,
240
,
241

and the Arab Cold War,
188
,
273

Arab Union schemes against,
286

and the ArabIsraeli conflict,
176
,
182

assassination plots against,
159
,
222
,
225
,
256
,
264

and the Aswan dam project,
204
,
210–211

and the Baghdad pact,
188
,
193

book written by,
143
,
183

Britain and,
188
,
193–194
,
213–214
,
221
,
245
,
256–257
,
258–259
,
264

as clever game player,
218

and the coup against Farouk,
137
,
138

death of,
296

direct US grant to, misunderstanding over,
191–192

end of support for,
214
,
231
,
232–233
,
238
,
243
,
245
,
264

Foster Dulles and,
146–147
,
229–230
,
249

and the Gaza raid,
187
,
188
,
193

increased standing as a leader,
189
,
194
,
201
,
264

JFK reaching out to,
291

Kim secretly supporting,
115–116
,
137
,
138
,
142–143
,
145
,
151
,
152
,
154
,
157
,
158–159
,
160
,
182
,
192
,
198
,
217

on Lebanon,
268

and Lebanon,
286

liaison arrangement with,
151

lifestyle of, compared to Farouk,
141

media coverage of,
183–184
,
189
,
257–258

Miles role playing as,
228
,
229

on military assistance for Israel,
212

and the OMEGA program,
218–219
,
221
,
223
,
226–227

as one of the Free Officers,
137
,
142

and Operation Chameleon,
205

and Operation GAMMA,
204
,
206
,
208–210
,
210–211
,
212
,
214

and Operation STRAGGLE,
224
,
225

overthrowing, discussions of,
221
,
225
,
245
,
257
,
258

peaceful removal of, plans for,
258–259

physical description of,
142–143

plans for Arab alignment against,
245–246
,
248
,
252–254
,
264
,
265

and policy drift by the Free Officers,
154

and Project ALPHA,
176
,
182
,
183
,
184
,
187
,
188
,
193
,
195
,
204
,
218
,
222

reactionary US policies toward,
245–246

receptiveness of, to US overtures,
140–141

relationship with Miles,
152–153
,
283
,
285
,
286

satirical character based on,
202–203
,
264

and the Soviet/Czech-Egyptian arms deal,
194
,
195
,
196
,
197–199
,
201
,
202
,
204
,
222

and the Suez Canal dispute,
158–159
,
231
,
233–234
,
253
,
255
,
257
,
259

and a US-Egyptian arms deal,
190
,
191
,
192
,
193
,
194–195
,
200

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