COMMITTEE FOR INVESTIGATION OF SYRIAN-FRENCH RELATIONS SINCE 1920

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R000100500004-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 4, 1998
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: October 6, 1946
• Content Type: IR

Approved For Release 1999/09/08 : CIA-RDP82-00457R000100500004-5,/,
COUNTRY 8ia mica
INTELLIGENCE GROUP
IN T EL UGENCE REPORT
SUBJECT Cor mtttee for nvesIbi ,ation of S mlva F ),a
il'latio 3 noe 1920
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It has been reported that Plash Bey Azma h., e- ;: :inter of Def eg and two
other men (not identified) were organizing a co is tee for t?ae purpose of
investigating questions arising from relations bet en Syria and France
since 1920. The fallowing are send to be some of the points to be
investigated by this co itta , according to its members:
(a)
Material . damage; caused by the French-
(b) Large amts of money borrowed by Syrian nationalists ho were
fair ced to leave their hares and to live In exUle for several rears-
(c) Financial credit lost by Syria through the depreciation of French
a~urronoy, and its outerpa?t, S'rian pap ey, (k ring the past 25
as
A central cc i tteo has been organized and a large number of local brans
are to be set up all over Syria, with the in antion of .le, inng 632 the
data on en a. relations with Syria, after which the co .ttae Intads to
present the case for the latter count rya
This corn i.ttee has been privately organized and h v4 no official standing
beyond the fact that the gone rent is aware of its existence and is
said to have gi ianofficia1 blessing to its ac Ivities.
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