MEMORANDUM FOR THE DIRECTOR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP60-00321R000400140008-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 31, 2013
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: July 29, 1958
• Content Type: MEMO

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29 July 1958
MEMORANDUM FOR THE DIRECTOR
1. This memorandum is for information only.
' 2. Reference ~Y memorandum of yesterday the following information
may be of interest:
Marguerite Higgins' Early Reporting on Nasser, November 1952
On November 19, 1952, the NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE published what
evidently was the first reference in the American press to Colonel Nasser
and his rising position in the new Naguib government that had overthrown
Farouk in July 1952. The reference to Nasser appeared in the fourth of a
series of interviews which Miss Higgins had been conducting in Cairo since
early November with Naguib and with the ten anonymous leaders of the secret
"Free Officers" group who were, in effect directing the affairs of the_new
Naguib regime in Egypt. Miss Higgins' first three interviews had been
published in the NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE (N.Y. edition) on November 1^~, l~+
and 17. Her fourth interview, and the first to mention Nasser (Nasir) by
name, appeared on November 19.
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Assistant to the Direct r
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