Real ziemovvit here. T6 - before you headlined CIA, why not go for shuttle? He coups - you score ME for dom, and play alliance to win. Furthermore- why not realign France when Defcon was at 5 due to SALT??
With Shuttle it's not always that simple. He could coup something in the ME or one of Americas. However- yeah, that sounds reasonable, I didn't consider it, maybe it actually was the way to go. When it comes to France- Europe has already been scored, there were 3 (edit: no, actually even 4) unscored regions, I wanted to aim for the win this turn and couping Lebanon looked very tempting to me.