EGYPT'S RELATIONSHIP WITH THE AFRO-ASIAN PEOPLES' SOLIDARITY ORGANIZATION

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85T00287R000700810002-6
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 19, 2010
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: March 7, 1983
• Content Type: REPORT

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Egypt's Relationship with the Afro-Asian
Peoples' Solidarity Organization
Egyptian influence in the
Afro-Asian Peoples' Solidarity Organization (AAPSO) has been
marginal since the assassination in 1978 of Yusuf al-Sibai, an
Egyptian who was the organization's president and secretary
general. AAPSO is now almost completely a Soviet show.
After al-Sibai's death, the Egyptians were able to refill
only the AAPSO presidency (in the person of the relatively weak
Abd-al-Rahman al-Sharkawi), while the secretary generalship went
to the pro-Soviet Iraqi communist Nuri Abd-Al-Razzaq Husayn. In
addition, during the late 1970s the two Egyptian deputy
secretaries general of the overall organization apparently became
merely the deputy secretaries general of the Egyptian affiliate
of AAPSO. By 1981 they had been replaced in their earlier
positions by a Soviet and South Yemeni. We assume that the
Soviet deputy secretary general is giving on-the-spot direction
to the organization, a procedure which would be consistent with
known Soviet control techniques in other international front
organizations.
The presumption of near-total Soviet control of AAPSO also
is supported by the time and attention the organization has spent
backing the pro-Soviet regimes in Afghanistan and Kampuchea--a
position hardly in line with Egypt's. We do not know the
details, however, of how the Soviets were able to increase their
control of AAPSO during and after 1978.
The Egyptians continue to supply the organization's
headquarters building, clerical support, and a cash subsidy of an
unknown amount. Their apparent purpose in doing this despite
Soviet control of AAPSO is to monitor the organization's
activities.
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SUBJECT: Egypt's Relationship with the Afro-Asian
Peoples' Solidarity Organization
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