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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-03061A000400010018-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 28, 2012
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: September 26, 1966
• Content Type: OPEN

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26 September 1966
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Sino-Soviet Pro-Chicom Egyptians
Conflict Convicted of Plot
Increases Against Nasser
Subversion
The Supreme State Se-
curity Court in Cairo has sentenced
eight pro-Chicom Egyptian com-
munists to prison for plotting to
overthrow President Nasser and es-
tablish a people's republic in
Egypt. The other three defendants
among the eleven arrested almost a
year and a half ago were acquitted.
In its 8 September announcement,
the court also ordered the disso-
lution of the Arab Communist Party,
the pro-Chicom splinter of the long-
established, illegal pro-Soviet
Egyptian Communist Party.
Soon after the indictment
against the eleven was returned on
8 December 1965, it was announced
that the nine-year tour of Peking's
Ambassador to the UAR was finished.
But many linked Chen Chia-kang's
departure to the communist conspir-
acy against Nasser. This inter-
pretation gained credibility from
the timing of Chen's departure
immediately following the indict-
ments, from the fact that the leading
defendant, Mustapha Agha, was a mem-
ber of the pro-Chicom communist
party, and from the similarity of the
plot to establish an Egyptian Peo-
ple's Republic to Chicom subversive
activities in Indonesia, the Sudan
and other parts of Asia and Africa.
In May 1964 Nasser released
pro-Soviet communists from prison
and gave some of them important
jobs in mass media and in organi-
zing the Arab Socialist Union. It
was hardly surprising, it can be
said, that pro-Chicom Egyptians
decided to move quickly before
their adversaries gained more pow
er. It was also understandable,
therefore, that the Soviet Party's
PRAVDA, on 12 December, charged
that Mustapha Agha had described
himself as a communist for "pro-
vocative purposes." The next day
the Arab Communist theoretical
weekly AL AKHBAR of Beirut came a
little closer to the truth by cal-
ling Agha and his fellow defend-
ants "opportunist elements" -- in
other words, pro-Chicom communists.
SmaZZ Chinese Czechs Demon-
WaZZ a Target strate Against
ChiComs
Two explosions
were set off on the wall of Com-
munist China's embassy in Prague
on the evening of 7 August 1966.
They attacked an 8-foot case dis-
playing photographs celebrating
the 39th anniversary of the
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Chinese Communist army. Although
this incident is common knowledge
in Prague, no word of it has been
published in the Czech press.
The motives of the perpetra-
tors of the deed are (and probably
will remain) unknown; thus, oppor-
tunities for speculation abound.
The explosions might have been a
protest against Chicoin aggressive
policy which presses for relent-
less pursuit of the war in Viet-
nam; or a warning addressed to the
USSR not to get Czechoslovakia
involved in their policy of "soli-
darity" with the Chicom-North
Vietnamese war effort -- likely
to jeopardize Czechoslovakia's
recent economic gains and threat-
ening escalation into general
war.
COMMUNISTS ON
RELIGION
Two are communist texts,
namely:
Ivan P. Tsameryan's
V. I. LENIN ON RELIGION, pub-
lished by the Foreign Lang-
uages Publishing House, Mos-
cow 1959 (exact reproduction);
and
ISLAM: The Origin of Islam,
a chapter translated from Mos-
cow's ATHEIST'S HANDBOOK, also
1959. This is also available
in Arabic.
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