ARREST OF MUHAMMAD AL-LISWI

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R007400010007-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 31, 1999
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: April 23, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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1 According to the arrest of Muhannad al-Liswi by Lebanese
authorities on 14 March 1951 was made on the basis of information supplied
to the Surety by Faris Sirhan of the Arab Higher Executive in Beirut.*
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2., -states that on 11 March al-Liawi and five of his followers -
Sha.'iq al.-Ilut3 `i?usuf Nim'ah, a tailor from Haifa; trap unidentified men
1'r?om Haifa and one from Jaffa - held a convnunist meeting at the Palestine
rerugee oeinra at Burl a1-Barajani,: Lebanon,
F&-ri.s Sir?hen had received advance notice of the time and place of he
meeting? He contacted some of the inhabitants of the camp and persuaded
them to give al..>Liswi and his supporters a boating when they arrived at
the as-rip and also arranged with the SuFete to send a force of Gendarmes
to the camp to arrest al.-Liswi and his follomrs:?,
iR yen al-ILis began to give a speech at the meeting in the camp, the
group which Sirhan had assembled assaulted al-L ewi and his friends
a.-rd drove them from the camp. however, they succeeded in escaping? because
the Gendarmes sent by this Surete to make the arrests railed to arrive
at the appointed time Sirhana s ?roup., however? followed al-LI-swi and
later di::ected the Gendarmes to where al-Liswi and his supporters were liv n p
The Gendarme,, subsequently Burro coded the house and arrested a1-Lis i and
s cvaerai other persons g al-Li.swi is being hold for investigation,
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