ARMENIANS ACTIVITIES

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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 8, 1998
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: December 1, 1946
• Content Type: IR

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voviet officials in Paris are taking new steps to persuade
5O,.OOO Turkish Armenians in France either to enter the
A'SR or to accept Soviet control abroad, according to source.
F-. Svpathies of these Armenians are said to loan toward the
USSR which promises eventually to create a greater unified
Armenia by attaching to Soviet Armenta the Armenian
territories still under Turkish sovereignty.
Already, 10,000 Armenians have departed from
an for Sov a rtnen a; 17,,000 from Syria; and 20,000 from
?Purkey; but only about 150 have left France, Soviet agents
say, however, that they are preparing for the departure of
5,000 Armenians in the spring,
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4-s The First Secretary of the Soviet Embassy, A. Enaekian
;cent: Listed in the current official diplomatic lis
e'kinn, Third Secretary, 8 rue de Pronya is assigned to
deal especially with Armenian affairs, He is aided in his 25X1A6a
propaganda efforts by the Armenian National Front (14 place do
le Madeleine. Paris) whose chief is Marmarian (6 rue Victor
Deix, Heuilly-sur-Seine). The Front publishes a daily news-
paper in 66 rue Mouffetard, Paris 5. Printed in Armenian, it
is called Jochevourt (The People). B. Elekian, a friend of
Jarmarian,Is- e editor-in-chief, and follows an editorial
policy in support of the Soviets.
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The combined activities of the Russians and the Armenians,
have persuaded 8 or 9,000 Turkish
_Yrmen ans v ng in aria to exchange their refuge papers for
Soviet passports.
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%- av J persons in France. This croup is nadey more than
e:A it,sively of rich traders and intellectuals. ~neysart
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T`I1-e Pro-Soviet nove:"ont, has not affected the
colony of Russian Art~eniana n ~srin
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Those, Armenians who do not wish to roturn to Soviet rule looi 25X1X6
to the Office of Arrionien Ref ur,oes in 11 rue do Grenello,
Paris 7, a rtoribor of the League of Nations.
i, Stru~~;gle against Soviet control is carried on also by the
D chnak . an organization founded 56 years aco to resist the
t.rmenia. The Daehnaks retain clandestine relations
With followers in Sovie r'tnon a. the political pro~;rars of
the 1)achnaks is Socialist, but their activity is aimed against
the eta. They ask for an autonomous Arnenin within the
Russian Federal State. In Paris they publish the daily news-
paper, faratcch (Epoch), owned and edited by Missakian. 25X1 X6
nrovisi ViiiliQt-U u,. Tine
ee o th? General Armenian Union,
President Karlohian and Secretary Gibdony, recently visited
Marseille where they attersptod to verge t ho Marseille section
of the Union with the Armenian National Front. There they
encountered hostility. Lienatzaganian, a leadin member of the
local Central Cor.ittee, ,;reed to hold a meeting to settle
the question, but opposed the merger on the grounds that it
would subordinate the UGA to Soviet jurisdiction within the
Armenian :`*ational Front.
10. UUenatzn ;anian carried the support of most members of the 7 A
in A proposal to ?stAblish himself as President of an
autonomous section of UGA, no longer recognizing the authority
of the Central Cormittee of the UGA in Paris. Menatzaganian
was advised by the local president, Attarian, who favors the
merger, that ho would be excluded from the UGA for five years.
His adversaries are resolved to create a now section of the
UGA to be placed under the authority of the Central Committee.
lb The Armenian Socialist Party, Dachnak-Tzoutioun, anxious to
prevent the absorption of the UGi by the Armenian National
Front, has announced that it intends to su or I.i gnnian.
she large Armenian colony in I'farsoille, is
distressed over this situation which threatens to divide the
ueneral Armenian -Union into two hostile blocs. They blame the
trouble on the political meddling of the Armenian National
?Pont.
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