DID DULLES CALL SOVIET ON ASWAN?

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100310013-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 14, 1998
• Sequence Number: 13
• Content Type: NSPR

. (~tISTIAN `~~ NCT
Dicl Dulles
Call Soviet
On Aswau~
Did John Foster Dulles delib
erately withdraw promise
American aid to Egy)yt for th
Aswan Dam in order to "cal
Russia's hand" and force
showdown with President Nas
Both Claim Facte ,
? $ath of;the Z..uce writers em?
phasize their intimacy with the
facts. big. Beal declares his book .
I'beneflts Irom personal inter- f
views."
Newscaster Reade quoted Mr.
( Jackson as telling hit Toronto
audience:
Lunch (for publisher
Arr?ry Luce, Secretary Dulles,
and Mr. Jackson). was to be
served in this private room (itt
the State Department) and the
secretary came in a little late
announce that he had just
9 $y AieLard L. Strout
Step Cwree}owtt~t of
The Chrietlsw aotewN ]towitor
and Formosa." neutrals in a way that the for-
The~ object of what Mr. Be mula of. applied propaganda
calls a trul major gambit i
the cold vvar~' was to reveal t `c'ould not cheapen."
falsity of Moscow's ecottotu Anew lm?estigation by, Sena-
offera. The idea was to pret( for Fulbright secrn~ almost ro-
tate are incident wherr ~ evitable.
United States would pub',14 The Luce publications gener-
rebuff a neutr:.l' attemptin/ ally have been sympathetic to
play ofi Moscow aYainst Mgr Secretary Dulles. Mra. blare
tea, and thus create a vivill,q - Boothe Luce, the pub11~'heY
ject leiaon.
declares, Built-In Moral
" the decision was ...com "lt had to be iorthri ht, carry-
parable to the calculat K
risks of war (taken) in.Kore ing ih own built-in moral for
]d the Egyptian Ambassador
at the United Staten would not
vanc~ the previously offered
iUion dollars iota the Aswan i
am. There was some 'specula- ~,
'on as to what the Egyptian re-
eade, the Associated Press, the
oronto Globe do Mail, and
thers had garbled his luncheon
addres.~,
e
seem like y o reopen ,
1
question of what ~cipitated th pprOHClt to `Brink'
Middle Rost crisis