The View From 1947: The CIA and the Partition of Palestine

From: The Middle East Journal | Date: January 1, 2007| Author: Lippman, Thomas W | Copyright information

Shortly after the end of World War II, President Harry S. Truman was struggling with the question of what should become of Palestine, where Britain was soon to abandon its League of Nations Mandate. The newly created Central Intelligence Agency weighed in with a study of what would happen if Palestine were partitioned into Jewish and Arab zones - and came to some erroneous predictions along with some valuably prescient ones.

In the first three years of Harry S. Truman's presidency, few...

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