FINANCING OF COMMUNIST CANDIDATES IN NATIONAL ELECTIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R007400480005-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 27, 1999
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: April 30, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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SUBJECT Financing of korrrrunist u~nraeioiate6
io rational Elections
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si rc6 1.6 March the Beirut Regional Committee of the
C*,munist Party has ben raising money to finance co unlst-supported
candidates in the national elections by selling, subscription tickets
at one Lebanese pound. each,, The tickets state that the candidates
represent the "Popular Democratic Front,`** Fifteen thousand tiok&;s
h.we been printed - enough to cover the five thousand pound d.epos:i is of the
V~iree comrsunist-banked candidates,*"* Mustef'a al-'Arls.47 Anton Tabitn and
Krikor oherian,***"'
the campaign photographs of al_'Aric, which describe
him as "the o didate of the ,porkers and people's groups." were pr Lntec.
at the al-Na j, ah Press in Beirut and were paid for by Viktor Nikul .n
o' the Soviet Legation,
a meeting of Corr, ;mi..sts
was hold on the evening of 1`c' March in Tripoli at the home of a .-?ar~s~;~ ki
w%ose first name the :.rforrnent did wt know.. The chief subject under
discussion at the meeting as the forthcoming national electlcn, "'he
following were =song those present at the meetingp Mustaia a1_'Ari,,,
yu ,zf al-Hi uP., Antun
"'a bi "cg. George Sarkis,, and a Jubran Ao k i,
a out diamond said to be, worth about
Vu-se thousand. Lebanese pounds wus displayed at the meeting0 The diamond
was in the possession of George Sarikis, who said that it had been ra ei.vLad
f::, om the Israeli Commimist Party to assist the Lebanese Communist Party
in the coming elect ions a*-** *4:
If a iy< domiminist candidates file for election,, thoy must
d so a .nc enondozrt candidates, as the Communist Part,, i ?s off is .a1:ty
outlawed in Lebanon. Each candid+a.te must -post an election bond of
five thousand Lebanese pounds, which is returned if the candidate
receives a certain rninimusn number of votes, If he does not roce3 ve
enough votes, the bond is forfeited.
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Auth.: HR 70.2
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The report that the Co ist ?a1 as
rT n' three candidates ooutrtdiets an earlier report
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vrhieh stated that '-IMuatafa, a7.-$Aria v uld be the sole candidate,
ree sivin the support of the Party. The more recent emnours,cemcrnt
'chat a w rrant had been issued for the arrest of al-'Aris has
? .arm rice to chi baiiei' that his cane All. be wic1-4mim and
of Saud al -')in 7Tum nah substitutedo
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Kri r Khaoherien was c stuns .bly a neutral,, indep n dex t
Armenian candida&e? but was actually e. member of the leftist
? inch Pater.
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cir diamonds are being i niuggl :d into Lebanon q rom arae in
increasing numbers,
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