America's Great Game (29 page)

Steve Meade, the roving, Bond-like CIA operative who befriended the Syrian dictator Za‘im.

ARCHIE ROOSEVELT PAPERS, LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

CIA officer Miles Copeland and wife, Lorraine, under diplomatic cover.

LENNIE COPELAND/JERRY DAVIS

A fresh-faced Mather Greenleaf Eliot, the CIA case officer for Kim Roosevelt’s Arabist, anti-Zionist citizen group, the American Friends of the Middle East.

ELIOT FAMILY PAPERS, UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH LIBRARY

Kim Roosevelt’s close friend and fellow anti-Zionist activist, Rabbi Elmer Berger.

WISCONSIN HISTORICAL SOCIETY

The celebrity journalist Dorothy Thompson visiting Iraq as president of the CIA-funded American Friends of the Middle East.

DOROTHY THOMPSON PAPERS, SPECIAL COLLECTIONS, SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY

Garland Evans Hopkins, the ardently pro-Arab and anti-Zionist chief executive officer of the American Friends of the Middle East. The CIA removed him from his position after the Eisenhower administration abandoned its policy of support for Arab nationalism.

DOROTHY THOMPSON PAPERS, SPECIAL COLLECTIONS, SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY

Edward Elson traveling with the American Friends of the Middle East. The Presbyterian pastor of both John Foster Dulles and Dwight Eisenhower, Elson courted controversy with his criticisms of Israel and support for Arab nationalism.

EDWARD L. R. ELSON PAPERS, PRESBYTERIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY

The September 1950 wedding of Archie and Selwa “Lucky” Roosevelt, the personally happiest expression of the early CIA’s romance with the Arab world.

ARCHIE ROOSEVELT PAPERS, LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

The overt and covert faces of US foreign policy during the Eisenhower years: John Foster Dulles (left) and brother, Allen.

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A nighttime meeting in Cairo: Kim Roosevelt (center) confers with the head of Egypt’s revolutionary government, Muhammad Naguib (right), and the man soon to replace him—and carry the CIA’s hopes for the Arab world—Gamal ‘Abdel Nasser (left).

KERMIT ROOSEVELT III/JOE AYELLA

Gamal Nasser and Kim Roosevelt, friends and rivals in America’s Great Game.

KERMIT ROOSEVELT III/JOE AYELLA

Iranian prime minister Mohammed Mosaddeq touching the Liberty Bell in Independence Hall during a 1951 visit to the United States. Two years later, Mosaddeq would be overthrown in a coup carried out, on the American side, by Kim Roosevelt.

DEPARTMENT OF STATE, HARRY S. TRUMAN LIBRARY