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This leader tasked former SS officer Wilhelm Voss with developing “Factory 333” into a missile program eventually targeted by Operation Damocles. Soon after seizing power in a coup, Ibrahim Abboud brokered a settlement with this leader as required by the World Bank. John Foster Dulles pulled American funding from an infrastructure project (15[1])after this leader signed an arms deal in Prague. This leader briefly (15[1])resigned during an embarrassing defeat in a conflict sparked by the (*) blockade (10[1])of the Straits of Tiran, which halted shipping in the Gulf of Aqaba. This leader and Mohamed Naguib led the Free Officers Movement (-5[1])in toppling King Farouk in 1952. For 10 points, name this leader who secured Soviet funding for the Aswan High Dam and nationalized the Suez Canal. ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Gamal Abdel Nasser [or Gamal Abdel Nasser Hussein] (Abboud and Nasser negotiated the 1959 Nile Waters Agreement, agreeing to split the reservoir created by the planned Aswan High Dam.)
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