GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH ELECTION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R007900520005-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 10, 2000
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: August 9, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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REPORT NO.
the IM,j synod of the Arat1och Patriarchate of the Greek
of Danascus; and .t1yas I arbar.' of Beirut.
Orthodox Church net in D r,ra.sc ias, ayr1a? on 16 May 1951, , The di oouaei. at
the raoetl..n chiefly corzcernr i the cr_z for eleotL on of the "Ret ent, `$ (exeout .ve
assistant) to Patriarch 1a;f.a ;a~xdros 'Cah.an:, The three candidates being coa-
aidered for the post exro At.nasi_oa :kaf of Zahle,, Lebanon; h atios Su .yti
.him at the Soviet Laoution .tin Beirut 1xn 15 r.Iaya
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the oan Data favored by the soviet Legation In Beirut
is Ilyas 3arbari, The Soviat Vlinistara Vasili. Belyayevo disouseed'Barbs,ri's
candidacy riith Archbishop Xl5, , Kax i of Ucunt Lebanon ~~n:sn the lather visited
This document Is hereby regraded to
CONFIDENTIAL in accordance wlt No
letter of 16 October .1978 Tmmn No
Director of Central Intelligence Ju the
Archivist of the United States.
Next Review Date: 2008
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