COMMENTS BY SUBHI ABU-GHANIMAH

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R004100410009-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 12, 2000
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: January 16, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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SUBJECT Cements by Subhi Abu-Ghanni ah
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1o Subhi Abu-Ghaninah, Jordanian opposition leader in D&ascusg clans to
have a latter f"ron Shukri Quwvzatli in which the latter expressed his
continued optfriisn that Syrian politics soon would be such as to a11ov
him to return to Syria as the rirlitful head of the Governriento Qurtratlf
added that he was "seriously considering" uoving to Deirut* where he could
be in closer touch with his friends.
2, Abu-Ghaninah asserts that he is not active in politics which, source states,
is probably true, since Abu..Ghan3nah is rlaintairLing a large ruxlical practice
and spends all of his ague time in social activity which obviously is not
connactod with politics,
3a Abu aniiaWh doocribed SaZah-alDan Bizri rforrior head of the Syrian
Deux &io Dureaav7as a "fina and sincere young man," but statc3d, that ho does
not have ;clans to rtorl: with Dizri actively on the question of the annexation
of Jordan without King ~Abdullah, after a Syro-Iraqi union has been effectedd
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On 7 Dcceor 19ts9, Bizri stated that, although he is
a7are ?arr tAbdullah is opposed to gyro-Iraqi union since the plan
did not oriCinnto with Mn, the union- eventually would include Jordanb
l3izri added, "If 'Abdullah opposes us, though out he geese In this
plan we are not thin1dimg in tern of dynasties but in terms of prineiples0
If tAbdullah rrontt have it,, Abu-Ghanixuh will "
This document is hereby regraded to
CONFIDENTIAL in accordance with the
letter of 16 October 1978 from the
Director of Central Intelligence to the
Archivist of the United States.
Next Review Date: 2008
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