BACKGROUND ON SYRIAN CRISIS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700400026-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 3, 2005
• Sequence Number: 26
• Publication Date: August 29, 1957
• Content Type: NSPR

~ ,Backg,~our~c~~~on Syrian Crisis
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_ 8y FULTON~ LE~VIS, a~,
-forts by_ ~? polies' ~Btittt' ~e? - ,
key ti>xure is Robert Celd~
members' oJl -the sta#>~ were q~~r
}celled on->ahtihy Ctitcies 11Y..UN
~:.~!>t~en~ ~-'t!gerH~ovxr4u~~...~~ 6~N. M.aARTHUR
1d ~6t A 1uroar
In owled~e. w
In the light of all these facts,
e~nmfttee counsel Robert lwtoJr?
>rla wanted to call.ln Stiron to?
getestioitln~ alwut th` '
tern?:aituatfon, eind_paseibiy
gresWl tronbk there. ~ e m, . a
~nquiries at the State Depar>r .
Went, met further reaittance.
desperntbn, he went to
frtnan Eaatlaltd and thJretit-
~ned~ to r e s 1 ~ ~ ; U , th! Dulles
mnrinatJn~ was to continue.
Faatiax-~: 'wha down"t intfmi-
-.date eas ,told bim to qo ahead
with the Stron~^~im-estlgatlon
sad he would take care of the ~"
pressure and tht. funds
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__D1[08B1113 went. back , tq `the ~'
..u..wsa~w sw+v v~~ a as yr ~ .~, a preV10tA3 Wi tO1d OJC
msittMnd;? and he moved toy 's activities oh grmoa4
Form~o~,"wherS the Chfaaj~ov ~.
ernm`nnJtde its wllhdretwai:fit ' ut-~ll he v~aa recall' to Wttsh?
>~'r...I'~a~ lnaton because of an~henlsm to .?a6trona be ret~lled for
tion?
was
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betnon, committee attention bee?rt in ?flNa country for '~(t~e,
perked- high: They called Emer? doom, and false, reportia about onths -and Strong was nc~: `~d
son to Washtn~-ton and. Involved' the perfoi mance at the Na? in Damascus. They said, hNr
him in the case of Canadtan tionalist armies. When Admiral ever, that he was due to rett+l 1 i
dipplomat E. F~erhert Norman, Cooke, -who ~+~as present in the to Washinggton September !!~
whe ,was in nearby Cairo until ehacuation o{x~rations, questioned and could t~estlfy at that dtttl'. '
f
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e statements,
he committed sole iE.. a accutac} o
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