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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: crash of Flight 3804
    sub title: a lost spy, a daughter's quest, and the deadly politics of the great game for oil
  name:
    name part: Dennett, Charlotte
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: vtu
    date issued: 2020
    copyright date: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvi, 351 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
  abstract: When Daniel Dennett, America's first master spy in the Middle East, was dispatched to Saudi Arabia in 1947, he had a particular mission: to study the route of the proposed Trans-Arabian Pipeline. It would be his last assignment. The plane carrying him from Saudi Arabia to Ethiopia went down in a mysterious crash, killing all on board. Decades later his daughter, journalist Charlotte Dennett, decided to find out what was behind her father's death and why the records about it remained classified after so many years. Along the way she stumbled upon map after map showing proposed, built and contested pipelines. And she came to realize just how much unrest in and around the Middle East in the past three decades could be explained by doing one simple thing, following pipeline routes. That is exactly what Dennett does in Follow the Pipelines. Through stories and maps, she explores her father's last journey and reveals the hidden dynamics of pipeline politics in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Gaza, Yemen, Turkey, Israel/Palestine, Iran and Saudi Arabia. She shows how pipeline conflicts help explain why the United States is vehemently opposed to Iran and its allies, Syria and Russia, and why Africa is becoming a major battleground where the United States is pitted against China and their proxies in the Great Game for Oil. "Pipeline consciousness" has begun to take hold in the American public, thanks to the resistance against the Dakota Access Pipeline and the Tar Sands Keystone XL pipeline. Yet there is little awareness or discussion of how US military deployments to the Middle East are designed to protect pipeline routes from sabotage-or bring down governments that oppose them. Understanding those connections, stresses Dennett, is more critical than ever. Since 9/11, Americans have been told that they are sending soldiers to foreign lands to eradicate Islamist terrorists threatening US national security. Rarely has the American media provided the broader context in whic…
  table of contents: Tracking TAPLINE -- Seeking truth, finding oil -- Afghanistan : the "graveyard of empires" -- Bush's oil and pipeline wars : the most censored story -- Is the Syrian war a pipeline war? -- The Turkish cauldron -- Mare nostrum : the militarization of the Eastern Mediterranean -- The hidden history of pipeline politics in Palestine and Israel -- Pipeline politics, assassinations, and the West's war on Yemen -- Reimagining a new world order -- Afterword: At all costs.
  note: Charlotte Dennett ; foreword by Daniel C. Dennett, III.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
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    geographic code: n-us---
    geographic code: f-et---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: United States.
      name part: Central Intelligence Group.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Dennett, Daniel C. (Daniel Clement)
      name part: 1910-1947
  subject:
    name:
      name part: United States.
      name part: Central Intelligence Group.
  subject:
    geographic: Middle East
    topic: Foreign relations
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Foreign relations
    geographic: Middle East
  subject:
    topic: Petroleum pipelines
    topic: Political aspects
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Petroleum pipelines
    topic: Political aspects
    geographic: Middle East
  subject:
    topic: Espionage
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Aircraft accidents
    geographic: Ethiopia
  classification: DS63.2.U5 D39 2020
  classification: 956.04
  identifier: 9781603588775
  identifier: 1603588779
  identifier: 9781603588782
  identifier: 2019042242
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 191223
    record change date: 20201021155524.0
    record identifier: in00004256583