Well, what the CIA did is what the National Security Council, which is the interagency that the CIA reports to, did is they engaged a private fixer named Bruce Rappaport, who was a Swiss billionaire with close ties to the Israeli government, to back channel with the Israeli government some sort of secret agreement that would guarantee that they would not sabotage the pipeline.

It was the terms we secretly reached with Israel is that they were going to get like a 30% cut on the revenue of the pipeline. And that's what secured the buy-in.