HOW CIA 'AIDE UPSET DIPLOMACY IN EGYPT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100080023-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 19, 1998
• Sequence Number: 23
• Publication Date: September 24, 1956
• Content Type: NSPR

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How CIA Aide Upset
Diplomacy in Egypt
By Chalmers M. Rober
CPYRGHT
-rbis-Ts e story of e mer- yroa a come Ammalemn
scan who tipped off Egyptian Ambassador in South Africa
President Gamal Abdel Nasserland Allen has become Ameri-
that Assistant Secretary of !can Ambassador in Greece.
State George Allen was bring-
ing bim a protest note from
,1$ecretary John Foster Dulles.
It also is the story of Ambas-
sador to Egypt Henry A. By-
-)roade=and of the part played
'by an American newspaper ac-
/.'count of the message Allen ear-
;dried to Nasser protesting
Egypt's arms deal with the
/10Z It It is a very different tale
On Sept. 27, 1lki5, a year
ago this Thursday, NAM &
announced Egypt would bay,
arms from Communist Csecbo-
slovakia in exchange for cot-
ton. (Ten months later Nasser
admitted he bought the arms
from Russia and not from
Czechoslovakia.') That same
day Dulles had talked in New
York about the armsdeal, about
rom the one told by Nasser the which he already [new, wnn
day he announced nationaliza-Soviet Foreign Minister V. M.
tion of the Universal Suez Can-'Molotov, but had received no
al Company, the move which ' satisfaction
tie~rnAnrwel tha C,,0, nrlcic I On Sept. 28, Dulles dig-,
r/ Cirntrai--Intelligence Agencyinoticr to Egypt, giving him
~~~e-is no longer In Egypt,ieirkr' pointing, out to Nacre
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