CIA co-operation over the Naguib issue was partly due to Nasser's secret offer of concessions in the Evacuation Agreement with Britain -the signing of which constituted a second reason for reduced tensions in the US-Egyptian relationship.78 Unfortunately, the effect was only temporary. This was largely because Nasser believed (genuinely, in the opinion of the CIA) that the United States was committed in return 'to give him some military help'.79 He was offered an arms deal worth $20 million in October 1954, but this was barely one fifth of what he had been expecting.
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