INTER-FEDAYEEN CLASH AT REFUGEE CAMPS NEAR BEIRUT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78S01932A000100130099-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 6, 2000
• Sequence Number: 99
• Publication Date: June 29, 1974
• Content Type: CABLE

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USUBJECT: INTER-FEDAYEEN CLASH'AT REFUGEE CAMPS NEAR BEIRUT
REF - BEIRUT 7454, JUNE 29, 1974, SEOCRET LIM DIS''
CLASHES BETWEEN OPPOSING FEDAYEEN FACTIONS NEAR BEIRUT ON
FRIDAY CLAIMED AT LEAST 2L LIVES AND LEFT OVER 50 WOUNDED- THE
EXCHANGES RESULTED FROM A CONTINUING FEUD OVER THE PAST TWO
WEEKS BETWEEN THE POPULAR FRONT FOR THE LIBERATION OF PALESTINE-
GEE]NERAL COMMAND {PFLP-GC} LED BY AIRHMAD JABRIL AND THE POPU-LAR DEMOCRATIC FRONT FOR THE LIBERATION OF PALESTINE {PDFLP}
HEADED BY NAYIF HAWATMAH.
THE ANIMOSITY BETWEEN THE TWO GROUPS IS ROOTED IN DIVISIONS
OVER THE POLICY TO BE FOLLOWED IN DEALING WITH THE MIDDLE EAST,
SETTLEMENT EFFORT. THE PFLP-GC HAS BEEN IN THE FOREFRONT OF
DIEHARDS REJECTING THE VERY NOTION OF PEACEFUL SETTLEMENT WHILE
THE PDFLP HAS ALIGNED ITSELF WITH YASIR ARAFAT AND THE SO-CALLED
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030"MODERATES" WHO FAVOR PALESTINIAN PARTICIPATION IN THE
GENEVA CONFERENCE AND A NEGOTIATED SETTLEMENT OF THE MIDDLE
EAST CRISIS.
FEDAYEEN "OMPPOLICE" FROM THE PALESTINE ARMED STRUGGLE
COMMAND AND OTHER FEDAYEEN UNITS 100MANAGED TO IMPIOSE A CEASE-
FIRE. A HIGH-LEVEL PLO COMMITTEE HAS.BEEN HFORMED ON INSTRUC-
TIONS FROM ARAFAT TO DETERMINE THE CAUSE OF THE FIGHTING.
DESPITE CLAIMS BY THE PLO NEWS AGENCY THAT THE SPIRIT OF BROTHER--
HOOD AGAIN REfIGNS, THE FUNERALS OF THOSE KILLED ON FRIDAY
COULD SPARK NEW EXCHANGES. E-2 IMPDET.d
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