PORTS OF LATAKIA AND TARTUS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R000300710008-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 8, 1998
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: January 19, 1947
• Content Type: IR

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In the original project f'aor the 1947 budgot,, as presented by the Ministry of
Public Works, thwie was all i.ten of LTS 5,OOO for the purvey of the Fort of
Latakt a, In the final tudget pv?ject, presented by the gpveruimnt and v otesd
by ParL t, tt Item was replaced by one of L?3 1059000 for a survey of
the entire Syrian littoral, in order to decide upon the location of a ft b"
port for . yria,
This change was effected through the efforts of Hy'ad 'Abd al..Ri.asage deputy
r* ay ^ t lama al- Umm (lilnister of batioal gcanoe and Justice in this
Jrt)r3. 1-0, net) et trae tte of the govsrrmenttal vote of confidence, and gav~s
them to the gov mW_rAt, with the change in the budget. as giroan in path
? abeveo as his price.
.: rJ z4 ,. .cs T3 . j?..uaUy,, ?A alb`?'A5Aq swung run six rDTe5 in rar.lattlant
frrom Tartu. 1 the original budget was proposed,, he a refrained
iron owVaignfn; diareatly for Tartus as the site of the future By-risu ports,
and advooat e d a thorough and impartial survey of all possible locations on
the Syr coast., He instigated a barrage of letters and t from all
parts of Syria.,, that the goat eetabliBh a port of Syria in
t of all Syria, and not a port of Latakia in the sole interest of
that town. He pi li.eiy stated that Major Holt, the Aleaeander 0 bb and Cow
ho m-ote a two-patio rupox-b eriaorsing Latal.-Up had spent only five
AZA Wrmy'" and had vi.sited no other site., iirbd-jai saq herded off delegations
fr oa Latakia to the maident., and Fri Miniaster, by adopting a disdntarested
intit'e a f vonccrn for tale genem! w .faaar es and 6o shasmd t1aee officiaala
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tbo l Bast lanc3omveer in fartus and vicinity. He has from
wag been a relentless foe of the port of Latakia plan.
r 4o a wcacy of TarbAa es the port of Syria is partly founded on his
u w:.Da or the a r?:r ..i.ont of his own and his town's fortunes,,
^ T ft - s ago based on sound consideration of the public benefit.
T ..z and vicinity offer all the a vantages which Latakia has not:
good d6p-watiar sr :o a , s: .tersd by the island of And; a
c nntr at location on the coast; easy access to road and rail.
ra it to Catrai Syria via the How gasp; and, the most
1 a o4, cone 4nrat_'on is not It an Hyad 'Aid alr-Ris? r
str re st. advocate of the sisning by Syria of the
agreeasat with the Al abimr-A rican Oil Coi .fly.
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