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Egyptian Officers Prepared for German Conquest in World War II
(Fathom-BICOM-UK) Efraim Halevy - In War of Shadows: Codebreakers, Spies, and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis from the Middle East, Gershom Gorenberg reveals that a group of Egyptian officers were preparing for Cairo to fall to Rommel. One of them, Anwar Al Sadat, was caught together with his diary that proved he had been sending messages to the Germans, and he was sent into detention until the end of the war. The group was led by Gamal Abd Al Nasser. In 1952, the CIA station chief in Cairo, Miles Copeland, advised the Egyptian officers prior to the coup - announced by Sadat - that brought down the monarchy in Egypt, leading to Nasser's assumption of power. The writer served as director of Israel's Mossad intelligence agency (1998-2002).