THE FINANCES OF THE EX-MUFTI OF JERUSALEM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R009200100007-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 21, 2000
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: December 1, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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l..> D i scu3sir f; the financial status of 'Ia j j Am n IIusayni,, the ex-4'_uxCfi of
Jerusalem in a private conversation early in August 1951, :.:ul=na Yunus icy,
rs 'sa.s' ant l,:cn,,::r,cr of the Arab Natic%riaal fai .c,, said that the Govern.
icnt :,t3il tvoatcd the 1.uft.7 as an immortant political reft2zoe Besides
mccti::ig all his personal mmonsec, sjcli as rent, car, and the r:,-J_arios of
;-if is r'vuntr3, tari_vcr, secretaries, and assist nts, it also paid I-Lin a per-
sc nal alloy anco from the secret I n is- 'adrunistored by the Council of
1 x ,. i.s :,crs - a sum of .300 per ; nmtho
2, TI-is -:s to a certain extent confi.] mecl by the head of the nri rate office of
q."1.. _a -Iah an z n Pasha ,, :sec?^ct,x -General of the Arab acagu.e,, ho said
t; z; " the Arab League had at one tir;e made the ex , ufti a grant of .5' 0 a ontlh,
of .tt ; this had been topped.?liou'~r three years ado, rr'raen the L ue authorities
ix camp satisfied that the ex '..'.uihti received adequate sums from the funds of the
Cc.urncii of :..:misters and the ijs; t:.an '.ttnistry of Foreign "Ifzairs.a
3,, Alrki.d al--Bl tai, personal Press Uewret.ry to i.ae -~-inister ,usta a Nahhas
Pz..oha, told a friend boat the sam time that on the first of every is onth
a s e^ia1 messenger from the i.:inl.S7;ry of i oreign Affairs carried to the ex
the a:'_iount allocated to hi: a the
.'i to a sealed envelope containing
Council of Ministers and the I:Sini_ - x y of Foreign s,ffa.irs, This the messenger
i, :rlded to the ` ufti against receip ,c. ithout being; u mre of its contents.
,-:ten the ox-c;hufti returned from trip to L han L:; an and T zi.I+.istan all the
m rn-#haly grants vd' i.ch lead accumulated. for him during li s absonce vere sent
t'p him in a, single ; a mont?
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a r.1 , ., .to is reported to :'raw. said In the
riddle of July 1.!; l that pyptian Dover .nmoont, "had certain o'-
liiz ations to the ex: L ufti urhi.c'i it irou? c! be my pr opri ato to disclose."
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