OPPOSITION TO REGIME OF HUSNI ZE'IM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002700110005-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 11, 1999
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: April 8, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Syria,
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SUBJECT Oppoiton to Uv of
Husni. 7i7..!
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1,, Rush& Kikhiya? leader df the Syrian Pest:40'1g Parte3ri proposed to
Husni &Min, ?Am? the coup d6tat3 that 'Zatin ncAninate one of Kikhiya'?3
friends to the post of Huhafiz of illeppo,. Zarin refused to do this and
appointed Husni Barezi instead.:. This appointrent has caused sc .me
friction among opposition deputies? as well as between Semi Kabbarah
and General Zalin has also rqtreached Kikhiya for his lack of
verbal support in the Chamber of Deputies when the Zalin seizure of the
Government was -trader .C1113c.u.sz:lon for approbation(' Kikhiya stated that
as a latiyar,... realized that Zaq:dts seizure of power was contrary
to the constitution!, source assertsc,
Followers of former President Quwwat11? including Selho and L'atn Haffav*
and Falz Dalati? have visited the. Damascus Legations of Saudi Arabia,
and Er;y2, Legation officials that Husni Zavira is British-backed
and the.-1-, the coup was equivalent to turning the country over to the
British, They stated that the emo,e thing would happen in Saudi Arabia
and :Egypt, These rat7a also visi.i.x?.d the French Legation, thinid.ng that
-the French still held Tr-ley:mess arm:Inst 7,atin for his activities
during lurid riar :-EV* and told .officials there that Zal in was Planning
to have quwwatli brourpt to trial for complicity in the murder of'
Dr* Shallbandar,?" Informant states that the :French have co,riaeced
invostigation of this ease to determine the Entent of QuwwatiVs .
irmlvemento
Informant, also ,n,t,n_tes that thin group will try to create disturbances
deuf-instrat,ions in Damsons atr,IrlyistZa ui v veal as :"in t he Jabal
Sheikh /.Abd-al,Hanid Tchabbar has volunteered to arouse
peo-pIe against the new regimo,?
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letter of 16 October 1978
Director of Centr ce to the
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Review Date: 2008
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commit, closcribod in soma detail
Moitirs?Oiartiags vith both Vichy' and Do Gaullist grouPs
In Syriac
ComP-ent* Early ia 1941 Luta Haffar and
ardai-71876-aoquitted -of tb.o murder of )rt, Shalibandari,
DrZiaSeene pdlitioal :Wailer who was assassinaisd in July 1940.
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