Word: suez
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most of the agency's exploits are actually a matter of hearsay. Despite expected denials, CIA was chiefly responsible for toppling Jacobo Arbenz' Red regime in Guatemala in 1954, and privately takes credit for it. It claims to have had advance dope on the British-French-Israeli Suez invasion. It correctly predicted the Hungarian uprising in 1956, directed the U-2 flights over Russia that provided the U.S. with some of its best intelligence on Russia-until they were called off after Pilot Powers' crash...
Beer is known to have had advance information about the Sinai campaign and, presumably, the coordinated Franco-British attack on Suez, which he allegedly passed on to the Soviet Union. The Russians, clearly, did not inform the Egyptians. They seem to have used their foreknowledge to behave with brutal swiftness in crushing the Hungarian rebellion, confident that the Suez attack would be certain to divert world public opinion...
...former Presidential Press Secretary James C. Hagerty told a group of Air Force officers in Manhattan. As he reminisced about his service in Washington, the American Broadcasting Company's new vice president for news recalled that "President Eisenhower went for seven straight weeks before receiving a question on Suez"-at a time when the 1956 Canal crisis was making headlines every week. What is more, said Hagerty, reporters are wrong in thinking that the conference belongs to them: "It belongs to the President. He can hold it in Madison Square Garden or a telephone booth." Added Pierre Salinger...
President Charles de Gaulle may not take off his shoes in public, but his view of the U.N. is almost as contemptuous as Khrushchev's. The French dislike the U.N. for stopping Suez; De Gaulle resents U.N. interest in and disapproval of French atomic testing. Last month France refused (along with Russia) to pay its 1960 share ($3,000,000) of the U.N. Congo operation. Last week in his press conference, De Gaulle gave his withering opinion...
...huge gingerbread building in The Hague last week, 15 elderly jurists strode solemnly into the courtroom of the International Court of Justice to resume their deliberate deliberation of some of the world's less pressing problems. While the crises in Laos, Berlin, Suez and Cuba get settled-if at all-in the harsher corridors of power politics, the World Court contents itself with less basic disputes. The reason: no major power has so far entrusted the court with the decisions that most matter...