COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R000400660002-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 12, 1999
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: March 31, 1947
• Content Type: IR

Approved For Release 1999/09/08 : CIA-RDP82-00457R00
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CENTRAL INT L UGE CE GROUP
1NTEWGENCE REPORT
COUNTRY Lebanon
SUBJECT Oon mist Activities,
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DATE. 25X1 X6
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DIST. 31 March 197
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The Central Cormitte,; of the Lebanese Communist Party has stated that its
total election ewes for the cowing campaign will amount to a total of
25,000 LS, budgeted as follows:
(a)
Propagauda
printing, speeches, meetings... e ....
5#000O IS
(b)
Transports
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n ?r.. r 60006000060.004**0i..a..10S1000 * ~3
(e)
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xs:xv %.#V,......,.sa.au 4--V 19. up uu ,arow Ei:Lgn;. -co nine waasanu Syrian pounds;
2,5X1 X6 M the Soviet Legation will provide the balance.
25X1 X6 Comment: ii though the amount to be spent by the Communist
Party apparently is low, it, is stated that the Communists are not
running entire lists,but are merely backing one or two candidates
on a list; in add- Lion, the party itself could not easily raise more
than ten thousand pounds from its own berahip.
it is reported that iliere were two meetings in Beirut? one on 1 Februar7
25X1X6 at the house of Nigola Shawip the other on 3 February in the house of Sarid Kasan,
a nzuktitar of the Mi zra' quarter. The meetings were attended by the following
Beirut htars, all of whom are Cotmuuni:ate: 'Abdo-al-Salem Aris of the
Bath ah quarter, Jurrji Mitri Jinhu of the Iusaitbah quarter, Michel Sfeir
of the Mina I Husn qa, Lrter and 'Abd-al,-Rahman Fakhuri of the Dar Mprei sah quarter.
25X1 X6 At these meetthga, the Shi'$ Commw st Hashim Amin, Niqola Shawl., and Hasan
Cureitem discussed the coming elections and emphasized that it was the duty
of the Commaniist Part~y,of the Friends of the Soviet Union and of the Lebanese-
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election.
25X1 X6 ~ Comment: In delivering the vote, the mckhtars can
function as ward bosses, and therefore are-Important politically0
Mukbtars are either Christian, Moslem or Armenian, depending on
the population of the quarter. Where the population is dared,
there are several mukhtars of different religious belieta0
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