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Project FF or Fat Fucker was a Central Intelligence Agency project in Egypt, aimed at pressuring King Farouk into adopting political reforms.

Historian Matthew F. Holland wrote: "Kim's idea was to orchestrate 'peaceful revolution' in Egypt to replace the corrupt political system in Egypt with a progressive dictatorship under the king that would be more amenable to American control. Copeland had unofficially named the operation 'Project FF', the 'FF' unflattering standing for 'fat Fucker'."

However, due to the unwillingness of Farouk to change, the project moved to support his overthrow, and Roosevelt secretly met with the Free Officers Movement, who in the coup d'état of 23 July 1952 under Muhammad Naguib and Gamal Abdel Nasser ousted Farouq.The project was masterminded by CIA Director Allen Dulles, Secretary of State Dean Acheson, CIA operative Kermit Roosevelt, Jr., and CIA Station Chief in Cairo Miles Copeland, Jr.

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