PROPOSALS FOR SYRIAN RAPPROCHEMENT WITH SOVIET UNION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R007900610012-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 5, 2000
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: June 13, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO.
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
CIASSIFICA1BOiV 25X1
COUNTRY Syris/USSB
SUBJECT Proposals for Wrian Rapprochement with Soviet
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i. At a reception for the press given by the Syrian Arm w at *tras Syrii&H
during the week of 14 May 1951, ?Abd-&dTunis, Syrian Deputy from
Wits, was asked if his recent statements advocating a pact between Syria
scat the Soviet Union were prompted bg his contacts with the Soviet Legation
in Aamaaaus. 1 'Dais replied that he bat acted with the knowledge and
approval of fhalid a1 ?Azm, Nyrian Prime Minister and Minister of 7oreigu
Affairs, sand Lt. Col. Adib 8 iishatcli. Chief of Staff of the Syrian Am V, in
making his public declarations.
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according to a Styrian deputy. the Syrian Consul General
in New To , Ra it $Asba. had arrived in b2mascus prior to Yunie? statements
with a confidential letter from the Sian deleCste to the `nited Nations,
Faris al-guri, tr i&lch al-T huri recoa ncnded that the Syrian Ministry of
Foreign Affairs uudertake some "political blackmail"in the form of s proposal
for a pact with the Soviet Jion before the meeting of the United Nations
Security Council to ermine the Syro-zsrasli dispute. ?A.sha. Tunis. and.
S tishs ii subsscaeut1y met at the Porelen Ministry to discuss the letter,
and Tunis undertook to carry out al..-Nluri 9 s suggestion.
e United States DerpartmAiat of State and he hoped that similar statements
01sha told friends in pamascus that the pro-Russian
statements o , a Dawn ibi in Cairo in i~ arch 1950 had xesultedl In a more
cordial attitude towara Syrian representatives in Washington'on thepart of
Yuri would cause than Americans to take a more sympathetic attitude towasrd
Ian interests, in order to prevent a Syrian aligsuaent with the Soviet Union.
stated that "with the Americans you have to act this way."
Commsal. The Damascus press of 11 May 1951 carried a full
report of Yurise statement in the Syrian Parliament aavocatizg as alliance
with the Soviet Union. On 16 May the Damascus new paepsr .ia r.portat
the body of a msmorandian submittet by Tunis to members of the drab Leagueo
r?eommendi a general brab rapprochement with the Soviets. A fairly re-
liable Damascus source reported that Tunis had met with prominent Syriaan
Communists including nah al a?fari on 12 May near Damascus and that
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arra2 ge>ients were bsfag mate for Tanis to moot MhaLt$ Iaseho The
sow source also reportei that Tunis hai visito& the Soviet Legation
In Am- cas on four occasions dnriue the week of 7 May.
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