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May 3, 1949

Untitled report on Soviet activities in Lebanon

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Beirut, May 3rd, 1949

Number 12/ Yesterday at 5:00 PM, a meeting was held at the home of Mr. Hanna Blinkoff on Khalil Basha Street, Aldha’ neighborhood. I saw among the attendees Mr. Ivanov, Calodomina, Bisranco, Sarkissian, Nicolai and Sergei Viss from among the Russian Legation leaders and Ms. Emily Faris, Ra’if Khoury and Antoine Thabit.  I have learned from Mr. Ivanov, who left the meeting location at 6:30 PM.  He intends to discuss the decisions reached at the International Paris Peace Conference and ways to be taken to ensure the execution of these decisions in Syria and Lebanon.

Description of a communist meeting in Beirut.

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Emir Farid Chehab Collection, GB165-0384, Box 1, File 74/1, Middle East Centre Archive, St Antony’s College, Oxford.

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