ITALIAN POLICY IN THE NEAR EAST AND NORTH AFRICA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R000800890003-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 3, 1999
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: September 1, 1947
• Content Type: IR

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cat that he will follow ~e e -Of
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and
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puns he hopes Oventua'34
his
the ecuti on of
representative in Baghdad. Journalist who
is now reported to be in contact with a prominent Syrian ects
34 Cortese in R,o recentlY and is one of the channels which Cortese expects
has been to his mission.
l be most useful n Minister Sfor%a
that for is it complete
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? and has isussmission$ ed the probl.en. in detail with Cortese.)
agreement an ressed the
Italian colonies in Africa Chi ese the exercise of
On the first subject of the Sforax'. himself in 1944)
t went of a polite e%Tpounded by I a.n sovereignty ei
devAlOP n Africa interfered with the trusteeship vroul-d be the
view (first nty i
Italy
of rapprochement with the Arab world, an
best solution.
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red with
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o~aver Cortese i s licy o collabczrat on
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U surer circumstazic ss 9 policy
in mould a ery.ouslY n although Cortese is "are that North a is
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the Yranch in Tunisia and the rest of Ngrth ~' ca'"
and Abd F.D-Kam as r~eoan
acts to get in touch with Abd a K an
6. Cortese der his post and has a chance to orient himself in the area.
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