SOVIET POSITION REGARDING RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH PROPERTIES IN PALESTINE 2. APPOINTMENT OF MOTHER TAMARA TO COUNTER SOVIET ACTION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002200680008-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 22, 1999
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: January 11, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT,
25X1A2
.COUNTRY Pa3.estine/USSR
SUBJECT to Soviet Position Regarding Russian
Orthodox Church Properties in. Palest
2e Appointment of Mother Tamara to Coun
PLACE Soviet Action 25X1A6a
.ACQUIRED Return
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Date : By:
Auth: DDA REG. 77 17
Class. CHIT TS
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REPORT NO.
CD NO.
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DATE DISTR.
12 January 1949,
NO. OF PAGES
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Library SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
the Soviet Union considers the
holdings of the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission In Palestine as
Soviet goverment property, but that it considers the Palestine
Orthodox Society to be a private institution*
not-her Tamara, of the Mount of Olives Convent, has been appointed
Vice President of the Palestine Orthodox Society, apparently with
powers to counter any Soviet efforts to acquire title to the
Society's holdingso
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