SOVIET ATTEMPTS TO PENETRATE THE GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R007400440006-0
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• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 24, 1999
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: April 7, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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C C INTELLIGENCE `AGENCY REPORT NO.
1 WO M TI REPORT CD NO.
Syria/VSSR
Soviet Attempts to Penetrate the
Greek Orthodox Church
DATE D STR.. 7 April 1951.
NO. OF PAGES 1
NO. OF ENCLS.
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SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
25X1X
It is requested that there be no further distribution of this report.,
1. Alexandros III Patriarch of Antioch, has received, through the ordinary
post direct from Moscow, a consignment of propaganda booklets acco np,tnied
ay a request that they be distributed among Orthodox clergy in the
Patriarchate.
2. The consignment consisted of well-presented 120-page booklets entitled "Tho
Russian Orthodox Church in the Struggle of Peace" published in 1950
by the "Editions of the Patriarchate" in Moscow; and copies of the
monthly "Journal of the Moscow Patriarohato".
The Patriarch is expected to take the advice given to him by his intimates,
that It would be unwise for him to distribute these booklets, and thereby
associate himself with the tendentious political propaganda contained i-d
them.
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