PHALANGE INTELLIGENCE FORCES PRESENCE IN SABRA CAMP

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• Document Creation Date: March 8, 2023
• Document Release Date: July 25, 2019
• Case Number: F-2018-00205
• Publication Date: September 20, 1982

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Assistant to the President for
National Security Affairs
SUBJECT:
20 September 1982
Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and
South Asian Affairs
1. Phalange Intelligence Forces Presence in
Sabra Camp;
2. General Eitan's Discussion with the Lebanese
Forces Command Council Concerning the
Palestinian Camps (DOI: Mid-September 1982)
Attached foe your information is a report on the above
subjects. This information is also being made available to the
Ambassador at Tel Aviv, to Special Envoy, Draper, and the Charge
at Beirut. Due to the extreme sensitivity of this information,
there will be no further distribution of this report.
Attachment:
John H. Stein
Deputy Director for Operations
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COUNTRY: LEBANON/ISRAEL
SUBJECT: 1. PHALANGE INTELLIGENCE FORCES PRESENCE IN SABRA CAMP;
2. GENERAL EITAN'S DISCUSSION WITH THE LEBANESE FORCES
COMMAND COUNCIL CONCERNING THE PALESTINIAN CAMPS
001: MID- SEPTEMBER 19821
SOURCE:
1.
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(b)(1)
(b)(3)
(b)(1)
(b)(3)
PHALANGE FORCES MOVED
INTO THE PALESTINIAN REFUGEE CAMP AT SABRA BEGINNING AT ABOUT 1730
HOURS BEIRUT TIME ON 16 SEPTEMBER 1982. (b)(1)
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HUBAYKA ORCHESTRATED AND LED THE ON-GROUND OPERATIOI(IDX1)
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AT SABRA,
AIRPORT FROM
ASHRAFIYAH
MET SOME
HE RECEIVED SUPPORT AT THE
PUSI {{ASHQAR}I, LEBANESE
DISTRICT. WHEN PHALANGE
RESISTANCE AND LOST ABOUT
LEBANESE INTERNATIONAL
FORCES COMMANDER FOR THE
FORCES INQADED THE CAMP THEY
THREE KILLED AND ABOUT EIGHT
WOUNDED.
PHALANGE ESTIMATES OF
(b)(1)
(b)(3)
PALESTINIANS KILLED AT
ABOUT 200,
ALTHOUGH OTHER REPORTING
INDICATES A MORE LIKELY FIGURE
OF
130 PALESTINIANS KILLED.
(b)(1)
(b)(3
HUBAYKA RESPONDED TO AN INQUIRY FROM
A SUBORDINATE UNIT ASKING WHAT WAS TO BE DONE WITH PRISONERS AND
REPLIED THAT UNITS WERE NO LONGER TO ASK WHAT TO DO WITH
PRISONERS.
IT IS CLEAR
(b)(1)
(b)(3)
THAT THE PHALANGE UNITS WERE NOT TAKING (b)(1)
(b)(3)
ANY PRISONERS.
(b)(3)
2.
INFORMATION ON THE SHATILA CAMP OR (WO)
(bX3)
ON THE
AKKA AND GAZA HOSPITALS.
OTHER INFORMATION
(W(1)
(b)(3)
INDICATES, HOWEVER, THAT SA'D {{HADDAD:}'S FORCES WERE RESPONSIBLE
FOR OPERATIONS
AT THOSE LOCATIONS.
COMMENT:
ALTHOUGH NO
(W(1)
(b)(3)
ONE HAS A FIRM FIGURE FOR THE TOTAL NUMBER OF PALESTINIANS KILLED
AT ALL OF THE LOCATIONS, AN ESTIMATE WOULD PUT THE NUMBER AT ABOUT
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(b)(1)
PRIOR TO THE ISRAELI ADVANCE INTO WEST BEIRUT, THE CHIEF OF STAFF M(3)
FOR THE ISRAELI DEFENSE FORCES, GENERAL RAFAEL {{EITAN}I, MET WITH
MEMBERS OF THE LEBANESE FORCES COMMAND COUNCIL. EITAN INFORMED
THE COMMAND COUNCIL THAT THE ISRAELI FORCES WOULD NOT ENTER THE
PALESTINIAN CAMPS AND THAT THE LEBANESE FORCES "MUST
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CLEAN OUT THE PALESTINIAN CAMPS". AFTER CONSULTATIONS WITH ZAHI
t{BUSTANI}I, A TOP PHALANGE PARTY ADVISOR, THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF
OF THE LEBANESE FORCES, FADI {{FREM}I, ORDERED ELEMENTS OF THE
LEBANESE FORCES INTO THE PALESTINIAN CAMPS.
4.
THE LEBANESE (b)(1)
FORCES OFFICER WHO ACTUALLY ORDERED THE KILLING OF THE PALESTINIAN (b)(3)
CIVILIANS WAS MARUN {iMASHALANII}.
5.
6.
7. WASHINGTON DISSEM:
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SUBJECT: 1. PHALANGE INTELLIGENCE FORCES PRESENCE IN SABRA CAMP;
2. GENERAL EITAN'S DISCUSSION WITH THE LEBANESE FORCES
COMMAND COUNCIL CONCERNING THE PALESTINIAN CAMPS
COUNTRY: LEBANON/ISRAEL
EXTERNAL DISTRIBUTION:
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ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE FOR NEAR EASTERN AND SOUTH ASIAN AFFATPT
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