DDP TO FBI SUBJ SIRHAN INVESTIGATION 23 JUL 1968

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: Records Related to the Assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 07169726
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: June 6, 2025
• Document Release Date: June 12, 2025
• Publication Date: July 23, 1968

APPROVED FOR RELEASE 2025 UNDER EXECUTIVE ORDER 14176 LU CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY WASHINGTON, D.C. 20505 Director Federal Bureau o Attention: Nr. Deputy Director for Plana Sirban investigation 1* A usually reliable source whose revioua revealed to our Beirut representative tbat on 22 June publiaher of a neaspaper in Lebanan, told eelor and Tnfoit1on Officer of the United And) Republic in Lebanon, bewas obtttning good rattans in raising funds for of Sirhan SIMS) withmore Christians thenitalims c further said be had met with Sbafiq UMBA110/, Fuser to study and organize SIRHAR's defense. /They had deXed SZBBAN's fitter and send "some people from our place to SIRBA s brother in Los Angeles to "shake tbe matter froo the name of the SIRHAR Zanily and give it its proper importance on the internstional plane." They had also decided to tour Arab countries collecting money* LAIMI said be had received promises of 10,000 Lebanese pounds from Mail ABD-AL-MSfAR and 5,000 Lebanese pounds from Beni SALER and expected to collect between 200,000 and 300,000 Lebanese pounds in Lebanon alone. (Mete: Apro aatt2y three Lebanese pounds equal one U.S. dollar.) LAWRI indicated these activities were not related to those of the Federation of Arab Lawyers. 2. Our files contain the following information on the above individuals: a. $alim LAM, according to a reliable *curt*, is considered by the OAR to be a strong pro-Nasiriet--altbouen it is reeognized be some. times strays for opportunistic reasons.-and his magazine is considered by the Intheany in Lebanon and Cairo authorities to be the most articulate and important exponent of Nandrism in the Riddle blot LAWZI reportedly received a ontbeidy of about 8,000 Lebanese somas montbly for this videly read publication fres Amer AML, tbe UAR Frees Counselor noted above. Mai* **urine states that after the June war,Weever, 'Ara wrote a series of articles critical of the OAR, and JAMAL and other Embassy officials thought be had turned pro.U.S. JAMAL reportedly was furious with LAM/. in this connection, LAWS/ told another reliable source in September 1967 that be no longer considered bimeelf a Satirist* IWZX said esir obviously erred in the vey he handled the June 1967 Aivib-Threeli csie, that the evittneee mad enormity of the CAR detest trated the inherent veabossaes in Nesirise4 and beesuse of this LANZ' has returned to espousing a more classical brand of Ara) nationalism* la addition, in Sopterber 1967 LAWEI esid be had seen quite a bit of the soviet Press Attaebe in Lebanon before the latter was transferred from Lebanon, and that the Press Attache, both before and after the June 1967 crisis, tried to get LAWZI to accept articles for publication in Beaadith� for each LAWZI mould be paid. DAM imPlied be refused this offer* It has also been reported by a reliable source that Chines* Communist diplo mats from. Damascus, Syria have visited the office of Sevedith, repo in connection with their subscription to this nevepeper. Shafiq tK7I was described in 1963 as chief local employee Overseas Corporation, Beirut; bas slays been close to and prominent Palestinian radicals; is himself a prominent an Arab politician* e* Yusuf SAME (SAYEGH, SAME) is probably identical with an individual of the *am name vbo is professor of economies at Anexi- can University of Beirut and vho "confessed" Arab Nationalist Movement (Ai) connections to a reliable source in February 1968. WIESE participated in a Mid-East institute eonference in Washington, B.C. in early Mey 1963 and is a delegate to the Palestine entity Conjres& held in Jerusalem May 1961k. d* Valid MUD/ is a professor at American University of Beirut and in 1966 was appointed to the Arab League office in Paris* lie vow a Leader �Tantee to the U. S. in 1959 and taujht at Prince- ton 1960. In ?My 1965 be was described as violently anti-U. S. Other information shows be is a very ective menber of the ANM and was suspected of having connections with British Intelligence* A-AXMflWAN is possibly identical with one Xanal aiin to May 1946 information, was a ng and trecting Company, Ltd. ntical with an individual of this same 968 information, is owner of the and is also an MM leader* f* Beni SADICM is probably identical with Beni SALAM vho in 1959 beaded the Middle East Development Corporation in Kuwait* In September 1966 be was described as a eivil engineer and Vico.* president of the nealy-formed Bank of Lebanon and Arab World* in November 1967 be was reported to be on the Board of Directs.im of Intra Bank in Lebanon and president of Doha Company (Meal Estate Development Company) SAM, with the Ab 'Nati c.TA pe1aL RePo This Special Report is 6/02732-6a and A AL N a t (AWL 'we etre a issued 19 January ed t3SCRET/NO FOREIGN h Attachment: Copy No* 1109 of CIA Special Report Ifo cc: Department or State (without attachment) 3