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Cast as the native villain was Farhan Attassi, 36, a Syrian-born but naturalized U.S. citizen with an American wife and until lately a local salesman of American TV films. The brain was said to be Walter Snowdon, second secretary of the U.S. embassy in Damascus. Hauled before a military court-the proceedings were televised to the accompaniment of John Philip Sousa marches-Attassi testified that "Snow don kept talking about how bad Communism was and wondered if I would help him do something." One night the Snowdons invited the Attassis to dinner. Said Attassi: "As our wives were taking...
...Attassi allegedly enlisted his second cousin, a petty officer at a Syrian naval base, and an army major who was actually to steal the data. Attassi said he received approximately $7,500, but the major tattled to his superiors, who fed him phony data to trap...
...Crises." He got fast results. Within three days, pro-Nasser Lieut. General Louai Attassi was named president of the Syrian Council of the Revolutionary Command, and the council itself was enlarged to admit a Nasserite majority. Attassi predicted that union with Egypt and Iraq would be achieved "shortly," claiming, "This tripartite federation will spread and spread until the entire Arab world from the Atlantic Ocean to the Persian Gulf is unified in one powerful state, weighing heavily in the balance of world power...
...week's end, Shishekly, still worried, decided to make a clean sweep of all remaining potential resistance to his power. The single most respected name in Syrian politics is 85-year-old Hashem Bey Attassi, former Syrian nationalist leader who was unanimously elected president by Parliament in Sept. 1950. This week, murmuring appropriate thanks to Attassi for his integrity, Shishekly issued "Communique No. 2," tossing Attassi out of the presidency, and dissolving parliament. Then he reached into his vest pocket for a Colonel Fawzi Silo, whom he installed as chief of state, Premier and defense minister, pending "restoration...