{"id":22995,"date":"2017-02-25T17:36:14","date_gmt":"2017-02-25T22:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=22995"},"modified":"2017-02-25T17:36:33","modified_gmt":"2017-02-25T22:36:33","slug":"the-u-s-carried-out-regime-change-in-syria-in-1949-and-tried-again-in-1957-1986-1991-and-2011-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=22995","title":{"rendered":"The U.S. Carried Out Regime Change In Syria In 1949 \u2026 and Tried Again In 1957, 1986, 1991 and 2011-Today"},"content":{"rendered":"

The U.S. Carried Out Regime Change In Syria In 1949 \u2026 and Tried Again In 1957, 1986, 1991 and 2011-Today<\/a><\/h3>\n
The CIA backed a right-wing coup in Syria\u00a0in 1949<\/a>. Douglas Little, Professor, Department of Clark University History professor Douglas Little\u00a0notes<\/a>:<\/div>\n
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Recently declassified records\u2026 confirm that beginning on November 30, 1948, [CIA operative Stephen] Meade met secretly with Colonel Zaim at least six times to discuss the \u201cpossibility [of an] army supported dictatorship.\u201d\u00a0[\u201cCold War and Covert Action: The United States and Syria, 1945-1958,\u201d\u00a0Middle East Journal, Winter 1990, p. 55]<\/p>\n

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As early as 1949, this newly independent Arab republic was an important staging ground for the CIA\u2019s earliest experiments in covert action.<\/p>\n

The CIA secretly encouraged a right-wing military coup in 1949.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The reason the U.S. initiated the coup?\u00a0 Little explains:<\/p>\n

\u00a0In late 1945, the Arabian American Oil Company (ARAMCO) announced plans to construct the Trans-Arabian Pipe Line (TAPLINE) from Saudi Arabia to the Mediterra- nean. With U.S. help, ARAMCO secured rights-of-way from Lebanon, Jordan and Saudi Arabia.\u00a0 The Syrian right-of-way was stalled in parliament.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In other words, Syria was the sole holdout for the lucrative oil pipeline.<\/p>\n

(Indeed, the CIA has carried out this type of covert action\u00a0right from the start<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

In 1957, the\u00a0American president and British prime minister agreed<\/a>\u00a0to launch regime change again in Syria. Historian Little notes that the coup plot was discovered and stopped:
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On August 12, 1957, the Syrian army surrounded the U.S. embassy in Damascus. Claiming to have aborted a CIA plot to overthrow neutralist President Shukri Quwatly and install a pro-Western regime, Syrian chief of counterintelligence Abdul Hamid Sarraj expelled three U.S. diplomats \u2026.<\/p>\n

Syrian counterintelligence chief Sarraj reacted swiftly on August 12, expelling Stone and other CIA agents, arresting their accomplices and placing the U.S. embassy under surveillance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The U.S. Carried Out Regime Change In Syria In 1949 \u2026 and Tried Again In 1957, 1986, 1991 and 2011-Today The CIA backed a right-wing coup in Syria\u00a0in 1949. Douglas Little, Professor, Department of Clark University History professor Douglas Little\u00a0notes: Recently declassified records\u2026 confirm that beginning on November 30, 1948, [CIA operative Stephen] Meade met […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[135,1343,776,827,5510],"class_list":["post-22995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-cia","tag-regime-change","tag-syria","tag-united-states","tag-washingtons-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22995"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22997,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22995\/revisions\/22997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}