CRISIS IN THE MOSLEM BROTHERHOOD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81-01036R000100110071-1
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• Original Classification: C
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• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 8, 1999
• Sequence Number: 71
• Publication Date: January 22, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
Egypt
Crisis in the Moslem Brotherhood
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1. A group of young activists in the Moslem Brotherhood has rebelled against the
supreme leadership and split the heretofore unified structure of the organization.
2. The following Moslem Brothers play a leading part in the young activist group:
Mohammed salirnan, Mohammed el Ghazal.i, -~.bdel -,'ziz Cal-al, Balr; '`.chtrr'k.oui, Member.;
of this circl,~ ire regarded as the intellectual sponsors of a series of politic,-i
murders between 1943 and 1951.
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On the evenin of 27 Nov 53 a group of 150 young Mohammedans burst into the
Brotherhood ho.dqu-rters, and there barricaded themselves so that a counterstroke
was not possible without bloodshed, The {gyptian police were evidently informed
of the proposed coup beforehand. In mny event, the nearby police bureaus refuses
to interfere, and police headquarters made no response to the alarm raised by the
supreme leader, Z;.heik Hasson el Hodeibi. c~. "constituent committee" of the rebels
deposed Hodeibi and named Mohammed ; adek as supreme loader' and ' ala .Aichmaoui
as head.of a newly created executive bureau.
Hodeibi and. his followers tried in vain to break into the headquarters, Thereupon,
Hodeibi called together his followers and the older members of the Moslem,
Brotherhood advisory committee and issued the following statement:
"A number of younger members of the Moslem Brotherhood have staged a
revolt which must be severely condemned. The "deposition" pronounced by these
younger members is self evidently illegal. I pay no :attention to it and
remain at the head of the 4,;xecutive Committee. I ask all Brothers to give
no recognition to this attempt to divide the unity of the Moslem :Brotherhood
and split us apart."
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5. The Revolutionary Committee, at the suggestion of Gamal Abd el Nasser, has
taken steps towards bringing about, or if necessary enforcing, a reconciliation
between the two groups,
6. Background,of the Rebellion. This occurrence was the outcome of the following
developments:
a. 'A rapprochement at NasserTs suggestion between the Moslem Brotherhood and
the Revolutionary Committee. A concrete agreement for a closer governmental
control of the Brotherhood was made on 23 Nov 53 at a meeting of leading
members of the Revolutionary Committee and the executive committee of the
Brotherhood.
b. The activist group believed that the yielding attitude thus shown by Hodeibi
threatened the supranational, Islamic fundament of the.. Moslem Brotherhood,
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