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Old 03-24-2013, 03:30 PM  
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2...p/27/uk.syria1


SYRIA: CIA-MI6 Intel Ops and Sabotage


"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. "

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"Further : a ?necessary degree of fear .. frontier incidents and (staged) border clashes?, would ?provide a pretext for intervention? the CIA and SIS [MI6 should use ? capabilitites in both psychological and action fields to augment tension.?

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"The plan called for funding of a "Free Syria Committee", and the arming of "political factions with paramilitary or other actionist capabilities" within Syria. The CIA and MI6 would instigate internal uprisings, for instance by the Druze in the south, help to free political prisoners held in the Mezze prison, and stir up the Muslim Brotherhood in Damascus.

The planners envisaged replacing the Ba'ath/Communist regime with one that was firmly anti-Soviet, but they conceded that this would not be popular and "would probably need to rely first upon repressive measures and arbitrary exercise of power". "

(Joint US-UK leaked Intelligence Document, London and Washington, 1957)"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2...p/27/uk.syria1
they should have made the suez canal lease longer to avoid all that back then.
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