ANTI-NASSER PLOT LAID TO THE C.I.A.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000300580022-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 24, 1998
• Sequence Number: 22
• Publication Date: July 30, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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NTI-NASSERPLOT
PLAID TO THE C.I.A.
Cairo Paper Charges Agency
;-Seeksto Wreck Regime
c r'
Gonihouria charged today that ser ous y a v se , by
T. Odeli, who was lunching with
Mr. Amin at the time of his
arrest, was labeled by the Cairo
press as Mr. Ami?n's C.I.A. con-
tact and has since left the coun-
try for, transfer. '
The case has touched. off a
wave of rumors here and has
made many Egyptians, long
wary about associations with
foreigners,. more jittery than
ever about seeing Americans.
Two Egyptian journalists who
were lunching with two United
Staten Embassy official' on the
gime of President Gamal Abdell; Lne?y saw minerican OLLIC1a15.
W---_ onA ranlneo it "with a Daniel Garcia,. the new em -r
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world. courtesy calls because of the{I
ini one of three articles, at- jitters. of, newsmen. Several ex-
I' tacking the United States, the cused themselves from appoint-1
nqwspaper -asserted that the, meats,
L C'LA. believed that the Egyp- ?' It was not clear whether the '
tianl leadership "must be de- articles in Al Gomhouria were r
tstroyed by any means even if officially Inspired since neither 1
that, involves resorting to as, of Cairo's two other major dail-
sagsination." ies joined in the attack.
Another article alleged thatl! However, most outside ob-
Sfecretary of State Dean Rusk servers assumed that the Gom-
"was a C.I.A. officer with they hourla articles had some official
)rank of colonel in 11143"-before sanction since the Government
the agency was founded. The controls. the press closely and
article added that Phillips Tal-; has for' several weeks had F111
bot, Assistant Secretary of general embargo on anti-Amer,
State for Near Eastern and , scan editorials while discussions
South Asian Affairs, had a Lover the future of American aid 1',
"far stronger association with to the United Arab Republic, ,
the C.I.A." than with the State were under way,
Department. j_ One of today's articles, by
The activities of the agency, Mamdouh Rcda, an extreme lcti.-
ti main commentary declared, ist, charged that the C.I.A. had
"for several years"' harbored
"will only lead to total separa ,1'a
tion from America." major dream of wrecking
the national government and ii-
One of Strongest Attacks placing it with a stooge , and(:
The attack was one of 'the traitor regime that would ac-
strongest against` the UnitedO cept becoming a tool in its hand
States ever plblished here. Itl and through which the C.I.A.(
followed by eight days the ar-,.could carry out its policy in theN
rest of a prominent Cairo pub-; United Arab Republic first and
lisher and editor, Mustafa Amin,, then in, the rest of. the Arab
who has been accused of being l. world."
a C.I.A. agent. " The 'article alleged that thel
Mr. Amin was educated at! agency 'had "interfered in shape.
,American University in Cairo, ' ing . relations" , between ; Cairo
,,and briefly at Georgetown Uni- I' and . Washington' and had!
versity in the,nineteen-thirties l;,"changed nearly - 10 different
w W hile . his father was Minister l- ambassadors" to Cairo since the
? of the Egyptian,, Legation An L1'52 coup, ti}at brought; 'the,
'Washington4":j.f,::u,:tif .v Neaser re&tme to power.