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Hourani, Albert,
85
,
174

Hubbard, L. Ron,
228

Hulac, Charles R., Jr.,
121
,
122
,
239–240

Hungary,
259

Hussein (king of Jordan),
213
,
252–253
,
265–268
,
270
,
280
,
286–287

Hussein, Ahmad,
182–183
,
194
,
197
,
229–230
,
232
,
233
,
258

Hussein, Saddam,
290

Husseini, Ibrahim al-,
271
,
272

Husseini, Muhammad Amin al-(grand mufti),
83
,
85
,
123
,
126

Hutchison, Elmo,
183
,
241

Hypnotism,
228

Ibn Saud (king of Saudi Arabia),
59
,
60
,
62
,
77
,
82
,
86
,
105
,
123
,
223
,
252–253

Idealism,
52
,
53
,
96
,
109
,
114
,
142
,
299

Ilah, ‘Abd al-,
43
,
80
,
264
,
287

Ilyan, Mikhail,
248–249
,
254–255
,
256
,
260
,
261
,
269

India,
6
,
7
,
9
,
45
,
48
,
64
,
190

Indonesia,
133
,
227
,
284

Industrial psychology,
150

Information Planning Staff,
148

Insight operation,
240

Institute for Arab American Affairs,
85

Iran,
37–38
,
42–43
,
67
,
79
,
99
,
129
,
217
,
224
,
281
,
293
,
298

AFME and,
121
,
239
,
241

as breeding ground for anti-Americanism,
168

Britain and,
48
,
49
,
59
,
80

countercoup in,
165–166
,
167
,
266
,
267

initial view of Americans,
48

and the Lend-Lease program,
38
,
48

oil fields of,
48
,
49
,
59
,
124

as a playing field in the Great Game,
48
,
49
,
59
,
162

as portrayed in Kim’s book,
80

postwar posting of Archie to,
47–48
,
51–53

regime change in,
3
,
116
,
160–161
,
162–168
,
169–174
,
170
,
175
,
249
,
269
,
270
,
279

Soviets and,
38
,
48
,
49–50
,
59
,
220

and the US embassy hostage crisis,
52
,
294
,
296

wartime regime change in,
48

Iran Crisis of 1946,
43
,
49–50

Iranian Communist Party (Tudeh),
50
,
161
,
162
,
166
,
168

Iranian Constitutional Revolution of 1906–1911,
48
,
52

Iranian Revolution (1979),
52
,
168
,
294

Iraq,
40
,
46
,
50
,
79
,
185

AFME and,
124
,
127
,
130
,
293

anticommunist purge in,
105

Britain and,
8
,
43–45
,
77
,
80
,
103
,
214
,
221

coup event in,
287

installed ruler of,
19
,
59

merger with Jordan,
286

Ottoman Empire and,
6
,
7–8

and plans for an anti-Nasser Arab alignment,
246
,
264
,
265

recent efforts to manipulate intelligence about,
299

and regime change in Syria,
97
,
107
,
221
,
223
,
224
,
254
,
255
,
256
,
260
,
270
,
274

revolutionary, US decision on,
290

See also
Baghdad pact

Iraqi radio,
222

“Iron Curtain” speech,
49

Islamic-Christian alliance.
See
Christianity and Islam, alliance between

Israel,
130
,
178
,
179
,
185
,
221
,
267
,
298

AFME and,
125
,
178

and the ArabIsraeli War (1948),
92
,
97
,
98
,
136
,
209

and CIA-Mossad connection,
206
,
281

debate over,
116

declaration of statehood,
92
,
97

Egypt preparing for attack on,
214

formal US recognition of,
92
,
93
,
126
,
128

increasing pressures on,
176
,
203

increasing publicity efforts against Nasser,
257–258

intelligence service in,
206
,
281

lobbying efforts of,
241
,
291

military assistance for,
196–197
,
204
,
207
,
210
,
211
,
212

and the OMEGA program,
223

and Operation GAMMA,
209

and Project ALPHA,
177
,
187

relations with Syria under Za‘im,
105
,
107

and the Six-Day War,
292–293

and the Suez Canal dispute,
234
,
257
,
259
,
260
,
262

and a US-Egyptian arms deal,
192–193

See also
AntiZionism
;
ArabIsraeli conflict
;
Jerusalem
;
Palestine
;
Zionism

Israel/Jordan Mixed Armistice Commission,
183

Istanbul.
See
Turkey

Istiqlal (Independence) Party,
26

Italy,
99

It’s a Wonderful Life
(movie),
232

J. Frederick Brown Foundation,
292

Jackson, C. D.,
154
,
184
,
233

Jalali, Ali,
163

Jardine, William J.,
21

Jerusalem,
39–40
,
62
,
83
,
121
,
123
,
240
,
293

See also
Israel
;
Palestine

Jeton, Francis,
270
,
271
,
272

Jewish Agency,
39–40
,
58

Jewish Americans,
56
,
83
,
86–87
,
92
,
117
,
125–126
,
185
,
204
,
241
,
293
,
299

Jewish, anti-Zionist organization.
See
American Council for Judaism (ACJ)

Jewish army, support for forming during WWII,
58
,
87

Jewish national homeland, movement for
See
Zionism

Jewish Newsletter
,
184

Jewish state.
See
Israel

Johnson, Lyndon,
291
,
292
,
293

Johnston, Eric A.,
197
,
199
,
206

Johnston, Kilbourne,
150

Jordan,
185
,
256
,
260

AFME and,
240
,
241

assassination of ‘Abdullah,
208

and Britain,
204
,
214
,
252
,
265
,
275
,
280
,
288

British troops entering,
288

contingency planning for joint intervention in,
275
,
280

countercoup in,
265–266
,
267
,
270

foiling opposition to Hussein in,
265–268
,
286–287

Foster Dulles’s logic about,
265

instability in, and the Baghdad pact,
204

merger with Iraq,
286

Palestinian refugees in,
121
,
130
,
265

and plans for an anti-Nasser Arab alignment,
246
,
248
,
252
,
264

and Project ALPHA,
187

and regime change in Syria,
270
,
274

and the Six-Day War,
292–293

Syrian destabilization of,
269

US financial support for,
267
,
268

See also
Transjordan

July Revolution (Egypt),
136–137
,
139
,
142
,
159
,
288–289

Kayvani, Faruq,
163

Kearns, Frank,
70
,
152
,
153

Keeley, James Hugh, Jr.,
94
,
100
,
101
,
104
,
105
,
106

Kenen, I. L. “Si,”
187
,
292

Kennan, George,
46
,
47
,
49
,
126

Kennedy, John F. (JFK),
291

Kettle Hill charge,
6
,
21
,
174

KGB,
273
,
281

Khomeini, Ruhollah (ayatollah),
52
,
168
,
294

Khrushchev, Nikita,
194
,
273

Kim
(Kipling),
4
,
134
,
171
,
172
,
189–190
,
227
,
295
,
299

Kingdom of Illusion
(Sheehan),
202–203
,
264

Kipling, Rudyard,
4
,
6
,
7
,
8
,
9
,
16
,
19
,
34
,
45
,
171
,
174
,
189–190
,
227

Kirkbride, Alec,
141–142

Kirkpatrick, Ivone,
223

Kissinger, Henry,
206

Klimov, Nikolai,
47

Kollek, Teddy,
40
,
84

Kopf, Max,
186

Krim, ‘Abd al-,
39

Kurdistan,
161

Kurds,
43
,
49
,
50
,
53

Lakeland, William,
138
,
139
,
140
,
142
,
147
,
193
,
282

Lamb, Harold,
122
,
144

Lampson, Miles,
77
,
197

Lambton, Ann “Nancy,”
163

Landis, James M.,
33
,
37
,
38
,
64

Lansdale, Edward G.,
151
,
157
,
175

Lavon affair,
187
,
205

Lawrence, T. E. (Lawrence of Arabia),
8–9
,
19
,
25
,
36
,
37
,
45
,
73
,
80
,
95
,
143
,
158
,
174
,
194

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