SCRAP METAL SHIPMENTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R009600290001-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 20, 2000
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: January 20, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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SUBJECT'' Scrap Metal Shi tints
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NO. OF ENCLS..
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1. During August 1951 the only scrap metal shipped from Beirut consisted
following four shipments of scrap iron:
a. SS KARACAt
Date of sailing:
Destination
VOeight in tons
as recorded by
Customs
Port e
Exporter
Export Agency s
SS DERMIRBISSAR 1,2
Date of sailing:
Destination :
Weight in tons
as recorded by
Customs
Port
Exporter s
Export Agencyc :
e. SS BESSLER 1#3
Date of sailing:
Destination
Weight, in tons
as recorded by
Customs
Port
Exporter
Export Agency s
1 August
Constantas Rumania
.172
190
Fayid Hajj Nimr
Ibrahim Ha33Matuk
Ibrahim Hamzawi
16 August
Constants.
198
521
'Ali Ahmad Shihab
Yusuf Labab_ idi
Fayid Hajj Nimr
Ahmad Nasim
Ilyas Malkun
23 August.
Constanta
40
233
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
SS TUNAS
Date of a.atlings 28 August
estiration s Stalin (Varna), Bulgaria
Weight, in tons
as recorded by
Customs 200
Per'. : 200
Eporter Izzat Shakir
Ilyas:Shahin
2$ All of the above shipments were exported through the Free Zone of the Port
of Beirut-with the e oeption of 150 tons shipped on the SS TUNA by.Izzat Shakir
which were a direct -export from Lebanon itself,
25X1X 3s the dsorepancies in the weights recorded by the Lebanese
.ustoms and the Beirut Port Company, are probably attributable. to bribery of
the ?ustoms authorities;,
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it Comment. See - for an earlier.aeport of these shipments,
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Comment. See in which it was reported that the
carrying 350 tons of scrap iron, had passed through the
on 24 August en route to Constants,,
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S. Comment,. See for an earlier report of these shipments?
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