BRITISH AND RUSSIAN ACTIVITY AMONG THE DRUZE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R000300270011-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 17, 1998
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: February 5, 1947
• Content Type: IR

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CENTRAL INTELLIGECE GROUP
INTELLIGENCE REPORT
COUNTRY Levant States/Iraq
SUBJECT British and Russian Activity
Among the Druze
ORIGIN
25X1A6a
L. Kamal Bey Jumblat, Druze deputy in Lebanese Parliament (Minister of Economy
and Agriculture, as of 15 December 191L6), is said to have stated that he
had recently been approached by Soviet Minister Daniel Solod with the
request that Jumblat should arranged a confidential meeting of the
leading Druzes of Jet el Druze with Solod, who wished to have a talk with
them as unobtrusively as possiblee
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2 Solod said he realized that the Druzes were the most powerful single force
in Syria, and that he had been told on good authority that the British
were stirring them up in favor of the Greater Syria plan,, Jumblat is
reported to have agreed to take the matter under consideration,
Juiublat has stated that the Druzes were not being given a chance to reflect
long and soberly, and that the British were constantly applying pressures
particularly through the Muhafiz (Governor of Jebel Druze) Amir Hasan allAtrash,,
4. Badia Malik*has said that he was acting for the British, who were dissatisfied
and wanted "reforms." Jiunblat said that he told Malik that he was all for
reform, but that if the British were behind the move, the responsible British
officials should approach Jumblat directly, and not act through an intermediary,
Malik.
In discussing British maneuvers, Jumblat said that now that Nuri Pasha al-Sapid
-was back again in power in Iraq,, his information was that Jamii Mardam,
-British support, would soon replace Sa'dallah al-Jabri in Damascus, and
p-lyad al-SuTh would similarly form a now ministry in Lebanon; all three
would then work to create circumstances "favorable to the British
Notes: 25X1A6a
jamil Ma.rdam and Riyad al-Sulh are the new Premiers of
yria,and Lebanon., respectively.
Source cautions that Jlat is a young man given to intrigues
ghat never come -off and that he is a great talker,
Nadia Malik was involved after the war in an unsuccessful
plot against the government, and he helped obtain,sigiatures
a petition demanding reforms
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