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Jack O’Connell, who served as CIA Station Chief in Jordan between 1963 and 1971, was a unique and remarkable figure in the contemporary history of United States involvement in the Middle East. He established a closer personal relationship with King Hussein than any other foreigner before or since. Subsequently he went on to serve as the King's attorney‐at‐law in the United States and as his informal diplomatic adviser. This article explores O’Connell's role as CIA Station Chief, focusing in particular on his account of the events leading up to the outbreak of the 1967 war and of the covert diplomacy which followed it. It concludes that if O’Connell's claims are sustained, the United States must bear a greater share of responsibility for failing to prevent the outbreak of war and for the failure to secure a diplomatic settlement in its aftermath than has hitherto been acknowledged.

Historians of Anglo-American relations have had little difficulty in characterizing the premiership of Harold Macmillan between Jan 1957 and Oct 1963 as an era of renewed closeness between London and Washington. The struggle between different agencies in Washington worked against Macmillan.

[...]Kuwait was a member of the sterling area, meaning that Britain was able to buy oil from Kuwait without the need for scarce US dollars. [...]Kuwait provided a powerful example of a friendly, pro-British oil producer in a re- gion where, in the wake of the Suez crisis of 1956 and the overthrow of the Anglophile Hashemite monarchy of Iraq in 1958, states friendly to Britain were a dwindling band.

J. Dumbreli, \"A Special Relationship\"; J. Hollowell, ed., \"Twentieth Century Anglo-American Relations\"; M. Jones, \"Conflict and Confrontation in South East Asia, 1961-1965\"; and J. T. McNay, \"Acheson and Empire\". It was fashionable in the 1990s to dismiss notions of a special relationship but these studies reflect new and more nuanced approaches. They suggest we should look for protean, multiple Anglo-American relationships, with certain common bonds of interest, ideology and culture.