Kissinger leaked Sadat’s war plans to Israel to win its favor

Evidence

In 1973, Sadat tried to take back the Sinai Peninsula, which Egypt had lost to Israel in the 1967 conflict, leading to another full-on war with the Jewish state. Throughout the war, he told US secretary of state Henry Kissinger his plans, hoping to curry favor with the Americans. Kissinger simply passed the information on to the Israelis. — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 208

Categorization

• XREF: Similar secret-leaking diplomatic betrayal appears in The Reluctant Fundamentalist’s account of US policy and in the broader pattern of the US using allies’ trust against them.
• CANDY: Sadat told Kissinger his war plans and Kissinger gave them to Israel — a compact, damning anecdote for a conversation.