CHRISTIAN SOCIALIST PARTY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R000300010003-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 16, 1998
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: January 21, 1946
• Content Type: IR

Approved For Release 1999/09/08: CI iRDP82-
CENTRAL IVELUGENCE GROUP
INTELLIGENCE REPORT
COUNT Lebanon
SUBJECT Christie Socialist Party
25X1A6a
ORIGIN
25X1X6
DATE. 25X1 X6
t
? . 21 Jenua , 1947
PAGES 25X1A2g
SUPPLLMF
1. A source with good contacts in French official circles reports that
the Christian : ocialist Party hold its last meeting in the home of r urge
Tabi is just before the departure of f yas I fush (leader of the Party
and corner of al-Hadith)for France.* The Party has not met since that date.
2. Thee active mks of the Party, sad Bustani (D uty from M. Lebanon),
)r. Hasib Ba , and Tusuf Zikhya, told source that Hart sh was wpowered
to t in touch with members of the
rm th
f
h
..ate,
e w avil o
t
e prevailing situation in Lebanon; request that
the Christian status of the country be preserved; and ask? that Lebanon be
independent under UN supervision. He was also to make clear Lebanon's
fear of the Arab League, and her complete opposition to the Greater Syria
plan.
The same source states that word has been received from Harf sh Indicating
that he l met high British,, American, and French personalities who listened
' patheticalI to his statements. 25X1 A2g
25X1A6a
4. A well--Informed Lebanese istian states that the Christian socialist
Party has never mated to anyt&I.ing; that its hand, of mem are
l
peop
e without influence; and that,sirace the departure of iiarfw h,.
party has been dormant. 25X1A2g
25X1A6a
do & ,.Iet~y regraded t
=i ? it :.ocdcz~ce with th
r Gi r from t
ctor Cf Ge ' Gei!ige:ice to t
iivist of the L d States.
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Comment: distributed on 30 October 1916,
:states that Harfash left 'or is at the request of Emile Edda
on August l9M>
Corr nt': distributed 17 May 19156
a ss.hai. ~sht rae? , or Christian Socialist Party,
~'!'~ fdI'1 ; v~ e-n~wer.wsn.,i..sl ..f 9 t t _ .,ice _ .. . . _ -
r stian front 0 v.
distributed 26 July 1946. stated that the
v'ernt had refused a license to the Christian
cialist Party in an attempt to prevent Ch ; ?~. a ~"`--
CLASSIFICATION CONFaMN'TPUL
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030
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