FU'AD SIRAJ AL-DIN AND THE IKHWAN

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• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 17, 2000
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: February 28, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO. LP
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO. 25X1A '14
COUNTRY Dgypt
SUBJECT Fu'ad SiraJ al-Din and the Ikhvan
25X1A
DATE DISTR. 28 February 1951
NO. OF PAGES 3
1a Fu'ad Siraj-a1-Din Pasha, the Egyptian Llinistor of the Interior and of
Finanoog said privately at the and of December 1950 that all decisions
regarding the lkhamn had been suspendod for the present. There tiere
many reasons for this docision, but the chief one vas the revelations
in the current "jeep oase'a" which had proved that the Ilftmn vas planning
the overthrow of the prosont regime is order to eatablish a purely Lloslem
state. Ile admitted that he h2asolf me now in a quandary as he had made
a definite promise to the Ikhwni to reinstate it and rostore its assets,
Howeverp in view of the seriousness of the revelations he mould not
hesitate to go back on his wordf he vas also somewhat afraid of the
reaction of the Opposition,, tiro ho to allow the Ikhwan to ftiacotion again0
2, Fu'ad Sirs?-al-Din Pasha's policy to.rd the Ikhmns to split it by
sawing dissension within its ranlas, Hence the roason for his support of
ITustafa Liu'mino taken this had served its purpose he continued his attempts
to divide the I khwan by getting in touch with IIusan al-Hudsibi Bey' nd
Salim Ashmawi and offering them whet he had refused Iyustafa Llu'ffino
namo1ym the restoration. -,of the Ikhir? n under its fore title provided
that it undertook to restrict its activities to roligicue matters and
not to engage in politics* Ilowevora they refused his offer and insisted
on the unconditional restoration of the Ikhwan. Siraj-al-Din Pasha has
therefore since got in touch with a third group headed by Shaykh al-Bakuri,,
using Shaykh al-Darraz as intcrmod1a y, even though he honor, that this
group zees already in touch with the Sadist Party. By these approaches
SiraJ-^al-Din, hopes so to disorf;ax ize the Ikhw i that by the time of the
coming elections it will have no standing in the country.
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'Goverment to decide, whoa . to do. It must either rescind the order
die5olviM .the Ikhvran and restore its money and property.,..or be
pm pared for it to adopt other means of attaining its ends. When
asked whether its now Guide, Huda#b!a as a judge, w uld~allow it to
resort to ther meansa al-ha hub said that the rule of. the Ikhan-is
for the Guide to submit to the declaim of the majority* Therefore,
If the Ik+van &a* a body decided out of deopair to resort to violence,
the Guide would have to etmi.t to.. this decisions, in sconce, with
Islamic pritoipleed In..oOrmtenting on a rramr!k that-the ii un had
been stripped of all its attics and that heroism without arse would
not get it very far, alwghashab remarked.. that When the I ldswaa. started
it had neither arms nor money, yet' within a vary short time it was
In possession of considerable. quantities of both, He therefore did
not foresee any great difficulty on this 'eeore, particularly as the
favorable evidence given by the two senior Egyptian Army officers
would be likely to attract supporters and thereby facilitate the
Ilan in its task of procuring the required money sad armrf,
90 In private conversation on 10 Janua_-r an official of: the, Ministry
of the Interior said that there is a definite split In the Guidance'
Office of the Ikhwan. There are now two factions, ' one led by
1 e1ah Ash i, the other by SudeJbi, Ths official ate ed that there
was the. possibility that an effort might be made in the near future
to expel Sslah Ashravvi from. the IIc ono He further asserted that
B tafa Mucmin had no irifluenco whatever in the Society,
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