Ropes of Sand

A “stinging indictment” of US foreign policy and covert operations in the Middle East from a former military attaché and CIA operative ( The Christian Science Monitor ). After the close of World War II, former army intelligence agent Wilbur Crane Eveland trained as a military attaché, specializing in the new focal point of global concern: the Middle East. In the decades that followed, he personally witnessed the evolution and many blunders of American Middle East policy from embassies of Arab st