The crash of Flight 3804 : a lost spy, a daughter's quest, and the deadly politics of the great game for oil /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Dennett, Charlotte (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	White River Junction, Vermont : Chelsea Green Publishing, [2020]
Subjects:	United States. > Central Intelligence Group. Dennett, Daniel C. > (Daniel Clement), > 1910-1947. Middle East > Foreign relations > United States. United States > Foreign relations > Middle East. Petroleum pipelines > Political aspects > United States. Petroleum pipelines > Political aspects > Middle East. Espionage > United States > History > 20th century. Aircraft accidents > Ethiopia.

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.