SOCIETY OF FRIENDS OF THE SOVIET UNION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002300100007-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 20, 1999
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: January 27, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

CL4SSIFICAT:ON r/v ~3 ;: T ~ 1L
Approved For Rele l $ IG9N6EF 00457Rg1 j0A?0
INFOR -NLORT CD NO.
COUNTRY Lebanon
SUBJECT Society of Friends of the Soviet
Union
25X1A2g
DATE DISTR. 27 Jan 1949
NO. OF PAGES 1
NO. OF ENCLS.
(LISTED BELOW)
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
le The Society of Friends of the Soviet Union was founded by the Commudst
Party in order to reach intellectual groups not otherwise in touch
with Communist Party activities, Its members cite Anton Tabit
Lebanese Comunist, as an ale of an intellectual-who cannot work
effectively in any Quarter section among the darkest, but who can work
with those on his own social level,
20 The Society has no law or constitution which governs its relations with
the Communist Partye However, it is relatively easy for Corrin4et Party
members and sympathisers, who form the overwhelming majority in the Society,,
to cake use of non.Conwnist members e Liaison between the Society and
the Party is carried on by Ra'if I iuz'io Cot aato Thuri Is
a Communist gaiter who has long been act ve pm'afule tne cultural 25X1 A6a
relations work of the Sowbts in Lebanon*)
Since most members of the Society are socially prominent, the
Society (now banned by the Lebanese Government) is inactive, as its
mothers cannot participate openly in its affairs,
This document is hereby regn
letter of 16 Octoc
Archivist
!Grith the
78 from the
United :ia::es.
eview Date: 2003
STATE
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ARMY IX I AIR FBI
CONFID NTIAL
Approved For. Release 1999/09/09: IA-RDP82-00457R002300100007-2