GERMAN MILITARY ADVISORS IN SYRIA

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005339305
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: June 23, 2015
• Document Release Date: February 12, 2009
• Case Number: F-2007-01734
• Publication Date: February 8, 1954

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German Mili.ta,y Advisors in Syria
8 February 1954
PERTINENT INFORMATION
Source Through awell-placed German Saurce,from a well informed:
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;officer.
German ex=arn~. _ .
Place Acquired: Frankfurt, Germany
2. Nevertheless,. a German advisory staff was formed by the fall of
191x8 from officers recruited in Germany and those enjoying asylum in
Syria. It has-existed in one form or.another since tk}6at time.' Its
first official chief was ex-SS Lt. Colonel Walter RAUFF (Alf), one-
time SD Chief in African and later in Italy from where he was re-
cruited. Ruff's personal entourage consisted mostly of officers
escaped or discharged from Allied M camps in Italy. When Za'im was
finally assassinated, RAUFF and his group departed for South America.
Declassified and Approved for Release.
by the Central Intelligence Agency
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