US-Engineered Lebanese Elections of 1957

US-Engineered Lebanese Elections of 1957

In Lebanon in 1957, the CIA supported Christian parties with U.S.
government money and donations by American oil companies that
wanted to insure a friendly government in Lebanon, a pivotal Middle
Eastern country.

Wilbur Crane Eveland, a CIA officer, later described driving his gold
and white DeSoto onto the grounds of President Camille Chamoun's
residence in Beirut and delivering political payoffs.

"Throughout the elections, I traveled regularly to the presidential
palace with a briefcase full of Lebanese pounds, then returned late at
night to the embassy with an empty twin case" to be replenished with
CIA money, Eveland wrote in "Ropes of Sand" in 1980, a history of
American policy failures in the Middle East.

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