TAPCO AND COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES IN LEBANON

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R001000630005-0
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• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 17, 1998
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: November 5, 1947
• Content Type: IR

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TA.PCO and Communist
Activities In Lebanon
NF0..26 Septer?er 1947
November
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According to sta.te~rrient.s made by L;3sta. `a ;II- ris pramsine It 98 .rut Communist
and Chairman of the Lebanese Federation of Labor onions,, the best protection
or ' rans--Arabian 'ipalfrs Co*_npany laborers would be the for'mi.t:%ori of ,,).n
organization of their own., such an organization, for which government
i eco tition would have to be ~ ecnre d1 would protent t. Ipbor?ers and erisnre
their continued employment.:, Aris already has some of his best ;men preaching
among T&PCO workers the necessity for such an or?ganizati.on and has instructed
his key men in various iahor orp,anizati orz s to advocate the same measure,
Daring the week of l8 -25 Septexiben Mustafa al.-Arts called the heads r.:f
^oSI of.' the unions 1 cart f ~~,ero .. masons :; painters and np..chanice) to a meeting
_n his office for a discussion of the `.TA.PCO l,eheir situation. The names of
Lineinpioyed workers in these variop.a unions were read and it was decided to
note the names of the most ranah a workers and to saabmi.t these to. Ar3..s The
latter promised to semire the reos .,ary reconwendations for ?m loy of with
TAM (presumably from individo.,a s in the government) for as many as
:o s:Lbie of the (-a.ndichi tes
The Communists are also trying in quite a different way to cre disturbances
#o:, TAPCO. In Moslem circles tgcy ch rpe the Company with del Lberate
oritism for Christians and in S:~, t:hern Labarann ,or sadd the rumor that. the,
C mp r1~ar is hiring t?o many men from Beirut and surrounding distr ots; it
1, ;-; sous the C.mlwn iste ' ..:.m. that she 1,ehaness mill 1'aa7,ve the "lion' s share re
It is also reported that many of? the drivw?s who formerly worked for the
: 'x e nch political officers are adren.c:{:r in the r?ei rice -,f TIP( ., So e of" these
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