Blood for Petrodollar's [Film]

Nasser and America's Deal with the Devil

1970. MI6 agent James Mossman drove a Morris Minor through Cairo with £20,000 in the boot. The money was to bribe Nasser’s doctor to poison the President of Egypt.

The plot failed — the cash went to the wrong person — but the message was clear: the West would rather kill Nasser than let Arab nationalism threaten its oil.

Gamal Abdel Nasser was the voice of a rising Arab world. He nationalised the Suez Canal, defied both Cold War blocs, and inspired a generation. His crime was independence. His punishment was a decade of CIA and MI6 plots, a war that killed his own people, and a death at 52 that five million mourned.

This is the story of a man who stood in the way of empire — and what happened when he did.