Crude Oil, Crude Money: Aristotle Onassis, Saudi Arabia, and the CIA Lippman Thomas W.
Crude Oil, Crude Money: Aristotle Onassis, Saudi Arabia, and the CIA Lippman Thomas W. Tells the untold story of how Exxon, Mobil, Chevron, and Texaco teamed up with the CIA and Department of State…
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Crude Oil, Crude Money: Aristotle Onassis, Saudi Arabia, and the CIA Lippman Thomas W.
Tells the untold story of how Exxon, Mobil, Chevron, and Texaco teamed up with the CIA and Department of State to thwart the plans of Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, who almost managed to reshape the Middle East.In 1954 Aristotle Onassis (long before he married Jacqueline Kennedy) made a bold business gamble: he tried to corner the crude oil shipping market by signing a deal with the King of Saudi Arabia. As it was, the proposed deal terrified British and U.S. If it had worked, it would have reshaped the history of the Middle East.
Complicating things were the burgeoning Arab nationalist movement led by Egypt's newly elected president, Gamal Nasser. oil companies and the Dulles brothers, who saw it as the first move in the nationalization of Saudi oil. And of course there were the Soviets, now without Stalin, eager to build influence in the region.This
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