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The Scheme to Hook Up a King With the Wasp Woman and Other Wild Plans

Khalid Elhassan August 31, 2020 34 min

Susan Cabot - Hussein of Jordan — Susan Cabot and King Hussein. Veja

38. “We Want You To Go To Bed With Him“

According to the declassified CIA memo, the scheme called for Susan Cabot to meet King Hussein at a Los Angeles party thrown by Edwin Pauley, a rich oilman and friend of Howard Hughes. Cabot was bluntly told before heading to the party: “We want you to go to bed with him“.

As she put it later, Cabot initially declined, but finally agreed to go to the party. There, the memo continued: “She became quite taken with [King Hussein] and found him to be most charming“.

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Khalid Elhassan

A lifelong history buff, I developed a particular passion for WW2 history as a child, when I spent hours listening to my grandfather, enraptured, as he recounted his wartime experiences in the British East African Campaign and with the British 8th Army in North Africa.

I graduated with a history BA from George Mason University, then went on to get a JD from the University of Virginia School of Law. After lawyering for a decade, I moved to sunny Rio de Janeiro and a less demanding career, opening a tourism agency in Copacabana.

A big chunk of my free time is spent blogging (you can follow me on Quora https://www.quora.com/profile/Khalid-Elhassan ) or freelance writing, mostly about my favorite subject, history.