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INTERVIEW: MILES COPELAND THE PUPPET MASTER, EXCERPTED FROM PENTHOUSE, 1978 "I was once asked if I could slip an '___' pill in Nasser's drink." "Who asked you?" "Some kook in the scientific section." "What was the purpose?" "To make a fool out of him. Suez had just come on and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and British Prime Minister Anthony Eden hated Gamal Nasser's guts. We were asked to concoct a way to kill Nasser. Eden would have shot Nasser personally." These are the words of former CIA official Miles Copeland. Miles is different from most critics of the CIA. While others complain of assassinations and dirty tricks, Miles maintains that the problem with the CIA is that it didn't overthrow enough governments, assassinate enough foreign leaders, commit enough dirty tricks. His criticism revolves around its "bureaucratic inefficiency.