RUSSIAN CHURCH OF WESTERN EUROPE: STRUGGLE FOR CONTROL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R000100610005-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 2, 1998
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: November 26, 1946
• Content Type: IR

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE GROUP
INTELLIGENCE REPORT
COUNTRY
France
Russian Church of Western Europe
Struggle for Control
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C-2 L, Acting upon what he said were instructions re ;oive d from Paris,
French Consul-General La Garde privately notified the
Constantinople Patriarchate recently that the French Qovern meat
"seriously objected" to the proposed aIdministration of the
Russian Church of Western Europe by Monseigneur Ger nos,, the
Greek Orthodox archbishop residing in London,*
C.3 2. La Garde indicated that his gove. rx nt would prefer to see the
Russian Church administered by Moscow,*
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