FORMATION OF NEW EGYPTIAN ARMY RESERVE BATTALIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002600010009-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 23, 1999
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: March 31, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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,CUUNTRY Egypt 0~- ?-
DATEDISTR. 31 MAR 1949 IMP SUBJECT Formation of new Egyptian Arny Reserve; NO. OF PAGES I
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25X1X6 1, The iutiaous Egyptian Army reserve battalions have now been returned to
I: ypt, and the units broken up. The rank and file have been scattered
throughout Egypt] the leaders are to be kept under aurv'eillance?
2, According to source, three new rosorvo battalions are being raised in
Beheira, Assuit, and Aswan Provinces.
3o Senator Lina Ilasan 'Abd-?a~l-Uahab pasha proposed a plan for the ar .ration
of the old reserve battalions with the regular arrr and the formation of '
new reserve battalions, This plan was rejected by the Liini stet of Defense,
Mhammd faydar Pasha, on the grounds that the new compulsory military-
service law made such action unnecossary and that the three battalions
to In paragraph 2 above would satisfy the parishes of King Faruq.
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