Nasser reacted to the Dulles brush-off by nathen Britain and France, invaded Egypt to try to overthrow Nasser, leader of the anti-imperial Arabtionalizing the Suez Canal to pay for the dam. Israel, (^)
nationalists. However, Eisenhower refused (for once) to play the Dulles-British game, and the
invaders had to leave Egypt when Britain was threatened with U.S. economic sanctions.
During 1956, She was put on the Senate Armed Services Committee. Bush toured U.S. and allied military basesenator Prescott Bush's value to the Harriman-Dulles political group increased when
throughout the world, and had increased access to the national security decision-making process.
In the later years of the Eisenhower presidency, Gordon Gray rejoined the government. As an
intimate friend and golfing partner of Prescott Bush, Gray complemented the Bush influence on Ike.The Bush-Gray family partnership in the secret government '' continues up through the George Bush presidency. Gordon Gray had been appointed head of the new Psychological Strategy Board in 1951 under Averell Harriman's rule as assistant to President Truman for na1961, Gordon Gray was national security chief under President Eisenhower. Gray acted as Ike'stional security affairs. From 1958 to intermediary, strategist and hand-holder, in the President's relations with the CIA and the U.S. and allied military forces. Eisenhower did not oppose the CIA's covert action projects; he only wanted to be protected fromthe consequences of their failure or exposure. Gray's primary task, in the guise of oversight '' on (^)
all U.S. covert action, was to protect and hide the growing mass of CIA and related secret
government activities.
It was not only covert projects which were developed by the Gray-Bush-Dulles combination; it wasalso new, hidden structures of the United States government.
Senator Henry Jackson challenged these arrangements in 1959 and 1960. Jackson created a
Subcommittee on National Policy Machinery of the Senate Committee on Governmental
Operations, which investigated Gordon G26, 1960, Gordon Gray warned President Eisenhower that a document revealing the existence of aray's reign at the National Security Council. On January (^)
secret part of the U.S. government had somehow gotten into the bibliography being used by Senator
Jackson. The unit was Gray's 5412 Group '' within the administration, officially but secretly in charge of approving covert action. Under Gray's guidance, Ike |`was clear and firm in his
response' that Jackson's staff not be informed of the existence of this unit [emphasis in the original].''@s1@s7
Several figures of the Eisenhower administration must be considered the fathers of this permanent
covert action monolith, men who continued shepherding the monster after its birth in the
Eisenhower era:Gordon Gray, the shadowy assistant to the President for national security affairs, Prescott Bush's
closest executive branch crony and golf partner along with Eisenhower. By 1959-60, Gray had Ike's
total confidence and served as the Harrimanites' monitor on all U.S. military and non-military
projects.
British intelligence agent Kim Philby defected to the Russians in 1963. Philby had gained virtually
total access to U.S. intelligence activities beginning in 1949, as the British secret services' liaison to
the Harriman-dominated CIA. After Philby's defection, it seemed obvious that the aristocratic
British intelligence service was in fact a menace to the western cause. In the 1960s, a small team of
U.S. counterintelligence specialists went to England to investigate the situation. They reported back
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