This essay examines the opposition to the Zionist project among CIA, Pentagon, and State Department leaders and President Truman’s response. George Kennan, author of the policy of containment, argued that a state of Israel would undermine West European and American access to Arab oil and facilitate Soviet and Communist expansion in the Middle East. The full US alliance with Israel did not emerge until after the Six Day War, 1967.
The State Department vs. the Zionist Project at the Dawn of the Cold War by Hoover Institution
