1957-Documents show WH and No 10, conspired over oil-fuelled invasion plan

[Room101]

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Nearly 50 years before the war in Iraq, Britain and America sought a secretive "regime change" in another Arab country they accused of spreading terror and threatening the west's oil supplies, by planning the invasion of Syria and the assassination of leading figures.

Newly discovered documents show how in 1957 Harold Macmillan and President Dwight Eisenhower approved a CIA-MI6 plan to stage fake border incidents as an excuse for an invasion by Syria's pro-western neighbours, and then to "eliminate" the most influential triumvirate in Damascus.

The plans, frighteningly frank in their discussion, were discovered in the private papers of Duncan Sandys, Mr Macmillan's defence secretary, by Matthew Jones, a reader in international history at Royal Holloway, University of London.


Guardian

Reminds me of Operation Northwoods :scared:

[protect freedom impeach bush now]

1. 1953 - CIA coup in Iran done for oil for UK & US

ALL THE SHAH'S MEN :
An American Coup And the Roots of Middle East Terror

by Stephen Kinzer

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[Octafish]

2. CIA White House Action Officer — Richard M Nixon

So, that Ike was in bed with the Brits? Who'da guessed, besides Laruoche?

I see things on this like Olver Stone: That no good little prick Nixon was in bed with the oil cartels. Doubt that very much removed we'll find "The Texans" Mosbacher, Baker and Bush. Funny, those names came up with the "Bay of Pigs Thing" Nixon talked about on his own mysteriously redacted 18-minute tape and all. Of course, these names pop up Big Time around November 22, 1963.

And 40 years on, we today, like Britain and the Swiss have known for centuries, America's political and economic elites can be counted on to take sides where the real money has been. For the BFEE, that means the Gulf of Oil.