One of the proposed options, flooding the Qattara Depression was actually proposed by the CIA to President Dwight Eisenhower as a way to achieve peace in the Mi

One of the proposed options, flooding the Qattara Depression was actually proposed by the CIA to President Dwight Eisenhower as a way to achieve peace in the Middle East. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qattara_Depression https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qattara_Depression: > The resulting lagoon, according to the CIA, would have four benefits: > - it is easier to extract oil from offshore platforms than in swamps, > - the flow will turn the hydroelectric power station, > - fishing, resorts, pearls, > - it would get Egyptian president Gamel Abdel Nasser's "mind on other matters" because "he needed some way to get off the Soviet hook".