POSSIBLE COUP D'ETAT IN LEBANON

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002800240005-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 14, 2000
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: May 25, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO.
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
COUNTRY Syria,/Lebanon
SUBJECT Possible Coup d'Etat in Lebanon
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Those contacts told source that this story is
g sidoly circulated by Christian circles in Lebanon ,;zho are now
convinced that a Syro-Lebanese Trar is about to brat out?
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REPORT NO.
Husni Za'in has told several persons that he would support any "responsible
element"" which iuld effect a coup d' etat in Lebanon,
Zarin had soot tuely? arrest
tens into Lebanon, .,without permission of Lebanese authorities, to
apprehend enneni ens of his, The sending of these arrest teaus into
Lebanon has added to the present to sione
This document is hereby regraded to
CONFIDENTIAL in accordance with the
letter of 16 October 1978 from the
Director of Central Intelligence to the
Archivist of the United States.
Next Review Date: 2008
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