GRUMBLINGS FROM PRESIDENT QADHAFI'S CRITICS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78S01932A000100200093-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 13, 2000
• Sequence Number: 93
• Publication Date: January 30, 1974
• Content Type: CABLE

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ITEM NO: WH-7
DATE: 30 JAN 74
(SUBJECT: GRUMBLINGS FROM PRESIDENT QADHAFI'S CRITICS
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REPORTED A VARIETY OF COMPLAINTS 25X1X
CURRENTLY BEING LEVELED AGAINST PRESIDENT QADHAFI. SEVERAL
LIBYANS, ACCORDING TO THE-SOURCE, BELIEVE THAT THESE RUMBLINGS
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REFLECT PROBLEMS WHICH IN TURN WILL PROV06 MEMBERS OF EITHER
THE RCC OR THE FREE OFFICERS TO OVERTHROW QADHAFI IN THE NEXT
SIX MONTHS.
THE CATALOGUE OF ILLS DESCRIBED BY THEISOURCE--RESENTMENT
OF THE INFLUX OF EXPERTS FROM OTHER ARAB COUNTRIES/ AND OFFER
OF CITIZENSHIP TO THEM, CONFUSION CREATED BY THE POPULAR COMMITTEES,
POOR ADMINISTRATION, LOWERED MORALE IN THE CIVIL SERVICE, AND
INCREASED CORRUPTION--IS SUBSTANTIATED IN PART BY PAST REPORTING.
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MOST OF THESE PROBLEMS, HOWEVER--MANY OF WHICH HAVE EXISTED FOR
YEARS--HAVE NEVER ESCALATED INTO CAUSES OF SERIOUS DISSIDENCE.
MOREOVER, THE REGIME HAS RECENTLY TAKEN ISTEPS TO CURB THE
ACTIVITIES OF THE POPULAR COMMITTEES AND TO IMPROVE THE ADMINIS-
TRATION OF SEVERAL GOVERNMENT MUINISTRIES? THE DETERIORATING
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LIBYA AND EGYPT SHOULD ALSO PARTIALLY OFFSET
LIBYAN CONCERNS ABOUT QADHAFI'S CITIZENSHIP OFFER.
PREDICTIONS THAT QADHAFI WILL BE OUSTED AS A RESULT OF THESE
GRUMBLINGS ARE PROBABLY WISHFUL THINKING. QADHAFI IS SUPPORTED
BY A MAJORITY OF THE MILITARY, WHICH IS THE ONLY POWERFUL
INTEREST GROUP IN THE COUNTRY. DISAFFECTED INDIVIDUALS AND
GROUPS HAVE PERIODICALLY PLOTTED AGAINST QADHAFI, BUT THE
INTELLIGENCE SERVICES AND THE MILITARY HAVE EFFECTIVELY BLOCKED
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