PILGRIMAGES TO MECCA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008300630004-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 30, 2000
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: August 14, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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Chinesr "ffosiems 3.s to inform 11631ems from 0t9-- pax s
conditions for them in the Soviet Union and China are "not unfavorable?
and to observe conditions in the Arab countries.
Tnform .t states th a General MAO Chi.-Wu (sic), a Chinese Nationalist
aiosl .~, is in Saudi Arabia and will soon go to Beirut. According to inforrnarab
General FI.O's mission in the 71iddie East area is to organize a group of
Chinese Moslem students at the Al..Ashar University in Cairo, Egypt for the
1951 pi1gr'Mage to Pead
2, According to sour?cea the purpose of the pilgrimage by these Soviet and
?t of the world that
Source states that C,,minform in Prague and its branch in PekingE (sic)
are sending eight thousand cow.st Loslems - all between seventeen aid
my-five years of age - from Uxbekistan.g Soviet Azerbaijan.. and China
to TJ%cca, Sa vudi Arabia, for the iand~ five thousand in i harg~?~ ply cm ?er$
thousand in the Chinese conting
Uzbekistan and Axerbai jafd
4. According to iinformaiate Ce~nOrai MO's group will present countea?propaganda
to a large group e~ thfrom the is year. Coumnist loft?ris
also making the pilgrimage
group will pass through Lebanon*
Comment. "General MAO Chi-'Man' is in all probability
Ge ral f! Chi-`? n., a kato' m anti-con .i.st Chinese riosl$m who this
year was reported to be tr?aelling outside of China.
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