UNION OF TRANSJORDANIAN STUDENTS IN CAIRO

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002700510010-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 7, 1999
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: January 1, 1946
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORM
COUNTRY Egypt/Txansjordan
SUBJECT Union of Transjoxda an Students
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ACQUIRED
DATE OF INF 25X1A6a
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2e until 1948 the organization remained an educational,
non~o o $ but that since the beginning of 1948 the club
grad lly has boon brought under the control of persons wbo "prefer
politics to educational natters'" and an extrme and antimlashimite
political program has evoivedo
36 The organization's present program Includes the following aim l
ao To pturctaasf, no=mnist books for the reading room0
To collect financial oontributionse
co To shift the program of the club from sports and social
affairs to politics (of a'nature harmful to the
Trans Jordanian. Govou>1t, source asserta)o
do To form an opposition" group in Arm=j, 'shish w.M
oppose King tA'bdullahp the Prime Minister, the
.array high colmand$ and the Angers Jordanian
Troaty
Co To dispatch telegram to the Uni tod Ilations, in
protest against Ilashiauite.policy.
f o To print cbannunist circulars attaolcing the T raps jor'danian
rlovorrn-; to
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for of Coritr
Arc! ivist of the Unite
CLASSIFICATION
ARMY!
The Union of TransJordodw Stuc"lents In Cairo was founded in 1916 as a
non-political club for students, Pr ii es were retatod and a-good
reading room was set up at that, time 'tom Sacir Pasha RifaI i, then
1'r me Minister of Trans Jordan, granted the club a subsidy of &P 540
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To orgaiiaize doooristrations in Cairoe (Source states thatp
In the last deon$tration which organized there, the
fransjordanian Embassy aid the Lfinis for to E t$ Baha .l
Din Tugan, were attacked,, partly because of certain
suggestions rhich had been made at the Jericho Conference
and.nartl r because the Arab Legion did not go to the aid
the Egyptian Army durlng hostilities in Palest . )
io The follow are the present leaders of the club &
as SWi Ayub 33 years o2r1 stJad&it of agriculture;
moderate Coisto
by a lzz-- -Din I3akir 32 years o3A3 for student at
al-Azlmr In Cairo; a rabid Cam=xIst0
ce Jamal twat Bay+das 2i years old; student of political
science and economics at a university
In Cairo; Costa
do Walid I3usisu
26 years 6ld3, medica s d tj
Co nisto
Co Q sd a1EEai Kurd. Student of political science and
eorics at Partaq University in
Cairo*
fo Tahsin Nabulsi 27 y old; student at a medical
school in Cairo0
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