SOVIET PROPAGANDA

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002100150006-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 7, 1999
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: November 24, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

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4 During the latter part of October 1918, a Russian named Nikola, arrived in Damascus from the Jazirah, where he had staying for imov
three months as the guest of 1ahrmud Jarail pasha a for about
ivdokimov is said to be charged with spreading
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Armenians and Kurds, source states. After spending c P several days among
Damascus, Evdokimov went to Beirut where he said mu d spend en
a month as an Attache at the Soviet Legation, He is a relatie about
Petro Isvdokimov
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IIikolai. Evdokimov was forrserly an official at the Soviet 'rabassy in Tr an,
and was later transferred to Afghanistan, He knows the Russian, Kurdish
and Armenian languages. Comment" Another source has reported
that Mahmud Jsmil Pasha, and er ux - are reportedly organ Kurds of the Jazirah, met with the staff of the Soviet Legation in Beiute
on 29 September 1948 a -)
2. Source states that the following newspaper publishers in Syria and
Lebanon receive honey from the Soviet Legation in Beirut:
a? Raghib Uthmani, publisher of al-Siyasah in Damascus.,
b. Wajih H_affar, publisher of al--Jihad in Aleppo,
C. Luunar Rayyis, publisher of Barada, in Damascus,,
d. Husayn Habbal, publisher of Ababil in Sidon6
e. Qadri Qalaji, publisher of al-Tariq in Beirut,
Said Fattah m arn, a Damascus dentist and a German sympathizer during
World War II, is now working for the Soviets, according to sourced Ile spreads
Soviet propaganda on all possible occasions and claims that the Arabs will
have to de nd on the Soviets if they are to be saved from the British,,
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4. Badr`?al-Din Taim,1 h, a Circassian from Ras al-iA1n in the Jazirah,
visited Beirut during the week of 20--2? October, after meeting with
Victor Khangulov at Shtawraa Tamukh lived for some time in Iran
after World War II and there beeeme acquainted with Reuben Agranove
In 1946 Agr'anov, then a Secretary at the Soviet Legation in Beirut,,
gave Tamukh the task of spreading Soviet propaganda. The latter
then it to Quns tra, where the population is largely Circassian.
Tam kh has developed close contacts with Isaac Isagulov of the
Soviet Legation in Damascus, who is particularly interested in
Tamulch because of the strong intluenoe of the latter over the
Circassian.
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