#Egypt
10 entries tagged Egypt.
People (2)
- Gamal Abdel Nasser Gamal Abdel Nasser was the second president of Egypt (1956-1970), the dominant figure of Arab nationalism and the Non-Aligned Movement, whose nationalization of the Suez Canal in 1956 triggered the tripartite Anglo-French-Israeli invasion and whose death from a heart attack in 1970 was reportedly predicted by Uri Geller during a Tel Aviv telepathy demonstration.
- Jefferson Caffery Jefferson Caffery served as U.S. Ambassador to Cuba, Brazil, France, and Egypt across a 29-year chief-of-mission career, mediating the Batista-Mendieta transition in 1934, coordinating the wartime Corridor of Victory with Vargas, pressuring France to expel its Communist ministers in 1947, and brokering the Anglo-Egyptian Suez negotiations of 1954.
Organizations (2)
- Mukhabarat Mukhabarat (Arabic: intelligence) is the informal name for Arab state intelligence services, most prominently Egypt's General Intelligence Directorate and Iraq's General Intelligence Service under Saddam Hussein, central to CIA liaison relationships, Safari Club operations, and the BNL/arms-to-Iraq affair.
- Radio Cairo Radio Cairo is an Egyptian radio station whose announcement of Gamal Abdel Nasser's death came approximately twenty minutes after Uri Geller purportedly predicted it during a telepathy demonstration in Tel Aviv.
Events (1)
- Lavon Affair Covert 1954 Israeli operation in Egypt involving bombings of American, British, and Egyptian targets designed to damage Western-Egyptian relations.
Places (5)
- Cairo Cairo is the capital of Egypt and the center of Egyptian intelligence operations; it appears in this vault as the administrative base for CIA-Mukhabarat liaison, the site of Camp David-era Egyptian diplomatic activity, and a hub for Arab intelligence services relevant to the vault's Middle East subjects.
- Egypt Egypt is a country in northeastern Africa whose modern intelligence history spans from Nasser's Arab nationalism and Soviet alignment through Sadat's pivot to the United States, the Camp David Accords, and Mubarak's role as a U.S. client state - with the CIA maintaining extensive ties to Egyptian intelligence throughout.
- Sinai The Sinai Peninsula is the triangular Egyptian landmass between the Suez Canal and the Red Sea that was captured by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War and returned to Egypt under the 1979 Camp David Peace Treaty; it appears in this vault primarily as the theater of the 1973 Yom Kippur War's initial Egyptian crossing that constituted a major CIA and Israeli intelligence failure, and as the subject of the Camp David Accords intelligence dimensions.
- Sinai Peninsula The Sinai Peninsula is the triangular Egyptian landmass between the Suez Canal and the Red Sea that was captured by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War and returned to Egypt under the 1979 Camp David Peace Treaty; it appears in this vault primarily as the theater of the 1973 Yom Kippur War's initial Egyptian crossing that constituted a major CIA and Israeli intelligence failure.
- Suez Canal The Suez Canal is the artificial waterway in Egypt connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea, whose nationalization by Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser in July 1956 triggered the Suez Crisis - an Anglo-French-Israeli invasion that ended in humiliating withdrawal under U.S. and Soviet pressure, marking the definitive end of British and French imperial power.