The CIA offered Nasser а $3 million bribe if he would join the proposed Middle East Defense Organization; Nasser took the money, then to Affronted the attempt to bribe him, Nasser decided to publicly

The CIA offered Nasser а $3
million bribe if he would join the proposed Middle
East Defense Organization; Nasser took the
money, then to
Affronted the attempt to bribe him, Nasser
decided to publicly rebuke the government transferring all of the
funds to the Egyptian government for the use of the tower construction,
which he stated that it would be ‘visible from the Embassy just
across the Nile, as a taunting symbol of Egypt's, Africa and the Middle
East's resistance, revolutions and