CIA World Tour: Near East (the Middle East and North Africa)

CIA World Tour: Near East (the Middle East and North Africa)

Browse agency records across the decades, broken down by country and presidential administration

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Edited by Beryl Lipton and JPat Brown

As part of our ongoing project to document Central Intelligence Agency activities around the planet, we’re compiling a curated list of links to records in the CIA archives, divided by country and presidential administration. Today we’re looking at the Near East (the Middle East and North Africa).

The countries listed were chosen based on the U.S. Department of State’s definition of the region.

Middle East

Bahrain

Cyprus

Gaza Strip

Iran

Iraq

Israel

Jordan

Kuwait

Lebanon

Oman

Palestine

Palestine is not included in the CIA’s World Factbook

Qatar

Saudi Arabia

Syria

United Arab Emirates

West Bank

Yemen

North Africa

Algeria

Egypt

Libya

Morocco

Tunisia

Western Sahara

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