WHITE HOUSE, STATE ACT QUICKLY IN MIDEAST CRISIS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70-00058R000100140122-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 16, 1998
• Sequence Number: 122
• Publication Date: October 30, 1956
• Content Type: NSPR

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Chairman of th Joint Chle
of Staff; Allen W. Dulles, direct ,4
tor of the Cent1*1 Intelligence Z.
Agency; ShermanAdams , chief A\
assistant to the President;. Wil-
ton B. Persons,deputy assist.
ant, and Col. Andrew Goodpas-
ter, white House staff secre- .{
ta-
$ecretary of State William M-1 None was available to com-:
ment Which Hagerty read be-'
fore tense newsmen and, pho-
tographer jammed in his office.
Asked If the Israeli-Egy*ptlan
crisis would alter the Presi
dent's campaign plans, Hagerty;
replied, "ti-e haven't even.
thought. about It-I'll .et you L
or Russia. i know tomorrow.
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By contrast, the Middle East ; Tn The Middla Eac.t_ manvl
ews was very grim for Amen-
an diplomats. It also posed a
riFticai problem for polio
inns, with the presidential elec-
Ion.. ly na Week away and de-
au 1s for aid to Israel a factor
nit -fn many uurban areas.
Secretary John Foster Dulles,
n-between a rush round of ses-
ions with foreign diplomats,.
onferred by radio - telephone
ith the President at Rich-
' ond, where the Chief Execu-
ive was completing a one-day
ying campaign trip into the
outh.
metgency Meeting
Official Washington spun into
4ay over -th jolting news of the
Israeli march into Egypt.
ower's weekend warnings on
e Israeli troop mobilization.
The Israeli- Egyptian crisis
used a quick shift of top for-
ign policy focus away from
e Polish-Hungarian, develop-
ents which had been buoy-
ntl ,
y watched as a major crisis
a
turned to the talks in the Chief
Executive's second floor study.
Ninety minutes after the ses-1
sion had begun, White House
Press Secretary James C.. Ha-
gerty . announced that the
:United. States will back its
pledge to aid any victim of ag-
.gression in the Middle East.,..
Others at the emergency con-
ference in addition} to Dulles
and Hagerty were Undersecre-
tary of State Herbert' Hoover
Jr,,;;Adm.Arthur W. Radford,
Americans 'heeding the Presi-1
dent's warning to evacuate the
area unless their .presence is'
absolutely necessary rushed out
of the 'tension-ridden sector.
Groups flown out of Amman,
the Jordanian, pital, on ai .
shuttle air mitt. by Embassy
chartered planes, were 'arriv-
ing at peJrut, . e'babon
Extr~s'Aircraft
"I left even the salve cwars
on the table" t(p United Press) i
quoted Mrs. Ernest Mlittlnson,,
the wife of a Point Fo9r em
ploye, who said, "We 'dad 20
minutes warning" to leave,
In Cairo, tldted States Em- ,.
bassy employes' visited all "non
essential" el,merican personnel.,;'
urging them Li to leave, and
scheduled extra aircraft to
transport the,m..
The Navy 'Department here
last night said, rn response u;'
inquiries, that the. United State ,
fleet is in this Eastern Media, R
An emergency White House
night meeting of top diplo-
matic, military and intelligence
chiefs was arranged. It began
at 7:20 p. rid., as soon as the
President got back to the White
House after landing at National
Airport.
Ac 8:15, the President and
his ranking officials came out
briefly to pose on the Whitelranean. ready for any aveut*
the scene. The group men rvj Randolph; two cruisers , _ abovt
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incuding reinforced Marine b@
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the crisis area,, ;end Pi?u-I
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