The 'OMEGA' memorandumhttp://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/FRUS/FRUS-idx?type=goto&id=FRUS.FRUS1955-57v15&isize=M&submit=Go+to+page&page=419 of March 21, 1956, was a secret United States

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 informal policy memorandum

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 drafted by Secretary

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 of State

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 John Foster Dulles

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 for President

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 Dwight D. Eisenhower

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. The document realigned Middle East

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ern policy towards marginalization

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 of Egypt

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ian President

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 Gamal Abdel Nasser

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 in light of his Soviet

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 leanings and failure to provide the leadership that Dulles and Eisenhower had desired towards settling the Arab

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-Israel

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i conflict. The document's planned tactics were restriction of Eisenhower's 1954 Food for Peace

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 program and other economic aid

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, delay and eventual cancellation of Aswan Dam

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 funding, and the beginnings of a search for new leaders in the Arab world

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 to use for peace promotion. However, the memo explicitly leaves policy room for Nasser's rehabilitation as a U.S. regional ally

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; it aimed at Nasser's marginalization but not his 'destruction' - a marked difference to the correspondent British

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 regional policy review of the same month, a difference that was displayed openly during the Suez Crisis

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of the same year.