America's Great Game (72 page)

with the State Department,
32
,
33

and the Suez Canal dispute,
257
,
260
,
294

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

and Syrian instability,
98
,
220
,
247

taking over combined NEA divisions,
143–144

teaching career of,
13–14
,
15

touring Damascus with Miles and Archie,
73

and the US embassy hostage crisis,
296

and a US-Egyptian arms deal,
190
,
191

waning influence of,
258

wartime travel with Archie to Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, and Transjordan,
39–40

Washington connections of,
55
,
114–115

Roosevelt, Kermit, Sr.,
5–8
,
14–15
,
16
,
18
,
78
,
171

Roosevelt, KW (first wife of Archie).
See
Tweed, Katherine Winthrop “KW”

Roosevelt, Lucky (second wife of Archie).
See
Showker, Selwa “Lucky”

Roosevelt, Polly (wife of Kim).
See
Gaddis, Mary Lowe “Polly”

Roosevelt, Theodore (TR),
5
,
6–7
,
10
,
18
,
21
,
78
,
79
,
171

Ropes of Sand
(Eveland),
230
,
297

Rosenwald, Lessing J.,
87
,
91
,
92
,
177

Rossow, Robert,
51

Rountree, William M.,
240
,
258
,
259

Royal Air Force (RAF), in the Middle East,
8
,
45

Rusk, Dean,
292

Russell, Francis,
211
,
245
,
246
,
252

Russia, Soviet.
See
Soviet Union/Russia

Russian and British empires, contest between.
See
Great Game

Sa‘adah, Antun,
107

Sabri, ‘Ali,
137
,
140
,
194
,
208
,
210
,
211
,
226
,
257

Sa‘id, Nuri al-,
44
,
188
,
193
,
222
,
287

San Jacinto Fund,
238

Sanger, Richard H.,
236
,
237

Sarraj, ‘Abd al-Hamid,
255
,
261
,
269
,
271
,
272
,
274
,
286

Saturday Evening Post
(magazine),
78
,
84
,
88
,
173–174
,
294

Sa’ud, ‘Abd al-‘Aziz Al.
See
Ibn Saud

Saud (king, son of Ibn Saud),
223
,
230
,
243
,
245–246
,
252–254
,
264
,
286

Saudi Arabia,
22
,
59
,
60
,
61
,
62
,
63
,
77
,
79
,
80
,
86
,
122
,
161
,
188
,
204–205
,
211
,
221
,
223
,
230
,
245–246
,
248
,
252–254
,
264
,
265
,
291
,
293–294

Schlesinger, James,
295

Schwartzkopf, H. Norman,
165

Scientology,
228

Scotland,
297

Sentimental Safari, A
(Kim Roosevelt),
294

Seven Pillars of Wisdom
(Lawrence),
174

Sharett, Moshe,
187

Sharon, Ariel,
187

Sheean, Vincent “Jimmy,”
27

Sheehan, Edward R. F.,
202–203
,
264

Sheldon, James H.,
235

Shishakli, Adib al-,
101
,
108
,
220
,
254
,
270
,
271

Showker, Selwa “Lucky,”
131–132
,
246
,
248
,
249
,
250
,
255
,
278
,
296

Shuckburgh, Evelyn,
198
,
213
,
214
,
227

Shuqayr, Shawkat,
247–248
,
255

Siblini, Muhammad,
26
,
27
,
31

Sicily,
99

Sinai,
259
,
293

Sino-Soviet split,
229

Sirrs, Owen L.,
155
,
156

Sisto, Kay,
237

Six-Day War,
292–293

Skorzeny, Otto,
155–156

Smith, H. Ben,
129
,
241

Smith, R. Harris,
279

Smith, Walter Bedell “Beetle,”
134
,
143
,
144
,
165
,
171
,
175

Social theory, influence of,
148–150

Something Ventured
(Woodhouse),
166

SOPHIA project,
33
,
37–38

South Vietnam,
185

Soviet moles,
169

See also
Philby, Kim

Soviet Union/Russia,
38
,
46
,
48
,
49–50
,
59
,
62
,
81
,
140
,
146
,
147
,
161
,
162
,
220
,
249
,
259
,
262
,
269
,
272–273
,
274–275
,
275–276
,
288
,
297

See also
Cold War
;
Communism
;
Great Game

Soviet-bloc émigrés,
206
,
250
,
255

Soviet/Czech-Egypt arms deal,
194
,
195
,
196–199
,
201
,
202
,
203
,
204
,
212
,
214
,
222
,
232

Spain,
285
,
295

Spanish-American War,
6
,
10

Spiritual alliance,
61
,
122
,
123
,
180–181
,
239

“Spiritual Significance of the World Crisis” speech,
179–180

Spofford, Nancy,
130

Sports metaphor,
11

Sputnik
launch,
275–276

Spycatcher
(Peter Wright),
222

Stalin, Joseph,
46
,
194

Stallwood, Frank,
270

Stark, Freya,
44

Stevenson, Adlai,
144

Stevenson, Ralph,
141

Stone, Alice Marie “Ahme,”
270
,
271

Stone, Howard “Rocky,”
270–271
,
272
,
281
,
297

Story of a Purpose
(AFME pamphlet),
242

STRAGGLE operation,
224
,
225
,
286

Strategic Services Unit,
71

Student exchange programs,
121–122
,
240–241

Sub-Saharan Africa,
281

SUCCESS operation,
224–225

Suez Canal

and the Anglo-Egyptian treaty agreement,
158–159
,
176
,
190
,
191
,
200
,
257

British control of,
6
,
124
,
135
,
136
,
147

Kim’s essay on,
294

nationalization of,
231
,
233–234
,
245
,
253
,
255
,
259

training in management of,
241

Suez Canal Company,
233

Suez Canal Users’ Association (SCUA),
257
,
283

Suez Crisis,
259–260
,
262–265
,
268–269
,
274
,
276
,
281

Suez Group,
188

Sukarno,
133
,
284

Swift, Carlton,
287

Switzerland,
195

Symmes, Harrison M.,
282

Syria,
36
,
37
,
40
,
67
,
79
,
99
,
134
,
185
,
266
,
298

AFME and,
121
,
127
,
130

Anglo-American Working Group on,
274–275
,
276
,
280–281
,
288

and the Arab Cold War,
188

and the ArabIsraeli War (1948),
97
,
98

CIA station in,
65
,
72
,
73
,
94
,
95

communist and nationalist presence in,
246
,
247
,
249
,
269
,
272
,
274

coup events in,
104
,
107
,
108
,
220

destabilization of Jordan and Lebanon by,
269

elections in,
96
,
97
,
106

emergence of new parties in,
98

failed coup attempts in,
261
,
268–269
,
272
,
281
,
285

Foster Dulles’s logic about,
265

France and,
8
,
26
,
77
,
97

GAMMA task force on,
273–274
,
279

instability of,
98
,
108
,
220
,
246
,
247

merger with Egypt,
286

and the OMEGA program,
221
,
223
,
224
,
227
,
230

and Operation STRAGGLE,
224
,
286

plotting against Hussein by,
267

regime change in,
96–97
,
97–98
,
100–109
,
137
,
138
,
139
,
220
,
223
,
246
,
248–249
,
250
,
252
,
254
,
255
,
256
,
260–261
,
269–272
,
273–275
,
276
,
279
,
299

shifting attitude toward Americans in,
97
,
108

and the Six-Day War,
292–293

Soviets taking advantage of CIA failure in,
272–273

and the Young Effendis,
81

Syrian Communist Party,
98
,
220

Syrian intelligence/security service.
See
Deuxième Bureau

Syrian Protestant College,
21

See also
American University of Beirut (AUB)

TAPline,
86
,
98
,
105
,
106
,
283
,
288

Tehran.
See
Iran

Tel Aviv.
See
Israel

Thomas, Lowell,
8

Thompson, Dorothy,
116–117
,
118
,
119
,
120
,
121
,
125–126
,
128
,
129
,
139
,
140
,
182–183
,
184
,
186
,
210
,
211
,
237
,
238
,
239
,
240
,
293