EXPULSION OF ANTRANIK ARDASHESIAN FROM LEBANESE COMMUNIST PARTY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R005800440005-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 28, 2000
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: September 20, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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.proved For Release 2 lUif$fR7 '82-004vff580 INFORMATION REPORT ,cD rjo_
CQUNTRY Lebanon
SUBJECT Expulsion of Antranik Ardashesian
from Lebanese Communist Party
PLACE 25X1 A
:ACQUIRED
DATE OF 25X1 A
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DATE DiSTR,. :J : i 50
NO. OF PAGES I
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REPORT NO.
25X1 B..,, Antranik Ardashesian was expelled from the Communist
Party at the same time as Garabed Pashabezian.0 Ardashesian, an Armenian.
has boon a militant Communist in Lebanon for the past twenty years The
Part;-"'3 reasons for expelling Ardashesian were "lack of discretion" and
"sabotage of organization,"*
2,. This is the*third expulsion of Ardashesian from the Communist Party known
25X1 B On one occasion, several years ago, Ardashesian was expelled
for failure to stand up in honor of Khalid Bakdash when the latter entered
a 20 nist meeting
W* Comment. A fairly reliable source and a source of undeter-
ined reliability reported that Pashabezian was arrested by the Lebanese
25X1A Police on or about 19 June 1950 for communist activity.
Comment
reinstated in the Party again?
that Ardashesian will be
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