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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-02771R000400310024-5
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 11, 2000
• Sequence Number: 24
• Publication Date: November 12, 1957
• Content Type: BR

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DEPARTI~IEI~TI' OF STATE
Division of Biographic Information
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SADAT , Ar~Far EGYI'!'
Anwar Sadat is Secretary General of the Islamic Gonference, Editor
of al-Gumhurisa, Vice President of the National AsGembly, and Secretary
General of Egypt~s new "Pational Union." He has been one of the most
outspoken critics of western "imperialism," and his editorials generally
follo~* a strongly nationalist, sometimes left-~ri.ng, line. Bitterly
anti-British, Sadat at one time (early in the revolutionary government)
professed pro l~,merican sentiments. A little later, however, he began
expressing disappointment that the United States had not given immediate
and material aid to the net~F goverxmient. By late 1855 he was writing
vitriolic attacks against the United States. He has been described as
the type of extreme nationalist who would ally himself with any force
which he felt ~~ould assist Egypt to achieve its "national aspirations."
S adat himself has adr~-itted that he is generally suspicious of United
Mates motives in the l~tear East, although he did give a grudging approval
of U.S. role in the cease fire of P?Iove~uber 1856.
S adat was considered one of the most influential officers in the
Revolutionary Command Council (RCC) shortly after the cOUp, and for a
time he was official spokesman for the regime.. However, his influence
tras on the descendaricy for sometime before he was dropped from the
Cabinet in June l q56. It is said that Sadat was distrusted by his
colleagues in the RCC because of his past record: of extreme nationalism
and intrigue.
Saclat was born in 1g1S, was educated in the Royal Alilitary College,
and c aru~.issioned in the infantry about 1838. He was dismissed and in-
terned for Nazi contacts in lq/~2, imprisoned for complicity in an
assassination in 1g46, and re-entered the Egyptian Army as a Palace spy
in 1851. Ho~~ver, he served the revolutionary group he `Fas hired to
spy on.
Sadat is reportedly sensitive about his negroid appearance. His
present wife is half English; a former wife whom he divorced in lg4q has
custody of their three daughters.
IRC:BT;VHtacLeanamh November 12, 1857
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