Epstein Secrets

sia in the past several months—most conspicuously, Egypt. Following his categorical and embarrassing defeat in the Six-Day War, Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, already a Soviet client, reaffirmed his fealty to Moscow Centre by telling Nikolai Podgorny, the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet:

ctober 29 for high-level talks with Egyptian intelligence officials. Then, on November 11, the Russian missile cruiser Varyag docked at the port of Alexandria—the first time a Russian warship has done so in twenty years —amid the announcement that Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Defense Ministe

s parties in Parliament. Our fears often reflect our own mental hobgoblins. For a generation, we were terrified of secular Arab nationalists, like Gamal Abdel Nasser, who ruled Egypt in the '60s. The fears of the secularists proved overblown, and I think the same is true of anxieties about Islamic parties in Egy

ns of Islamic politics, rather than a struggle between religious and secular parties. One example of that intramural fight took place this week in Alexandria, in a parliamentary runoff election pitting a business-as- usual Muslim Brother against a fire-and-brimstone cleric from the Salafi call, Abdel Mone

ee Officers Movement. 18 June 1953 The Revolutionary Command Council (RCC) abolishes the monarchy and proclaims the Republic of Egypt. 23 June 1956 Gamal Abdel Nasser is elected President of the Republic of Egypt. 26 July 1956 President Nasser of Egypt nationalizes the Suez Canal. 29 October 1956 Suez Crisis. Isr

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