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title: 'FBIS Daily Report: Cairo MENA on a Syrian ''plan'' to cause political disorder (28 Sep 1978)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/fbis-cairo-syria-disorder-plan-1978/
description: Egypt section of the FBIS report for 28 September 1978. Cairo's state news agency carries a report that the magazine Akhir Sa'ah says 'informed Arab…
section: Collection
---

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# FBIS Daily Report: Cairo MENA on a Syrian 'plan' to cause political disorder (28 Sep 1978)

Egypt section of the FBIS report for 28 September 1978. Cairo's state news agency carries a report that the magazine Akhir Sa'ah says 'informed Arab circles' have learned of a secret Syrian Ba'thist plan, prepared with the Soviet Union, to create disorder and 'circulate false information' about Israeli forces on the Golan, and that Hafiz al-Asad sought $600 million from Colonel Qadhdhafi for it. The claim reaches the audience through a magazine and unnamed sources, not from an Egyptian official.

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
V. 28 Sep 78 D 8 EGYPT
The president also expressed hope that the armed forces will continue their militant march so that they will be a strong bulwark of the peace to which we aspire.
The above statements are contained in the cable of thanks which President as-Sadat today sent to Gen Muhammad 'Abd al-Ghani al-Jamasi, deputy prime minister and war minister, in reply to the telegram of support which his excellency had sent to the president on the signing of the two Camp David agreements.
SYRIA REPORTEDLY PLANS TO CAUSE POLITICAL DISORDER
NC270915Y Cairo MENA in Arabic 0835 GMT 27 Sep 78 NC
[Excerpts] Cairo, 27 September--The magazine AKHIR SA'AH reports that informed Arab circles have learned that Syria has prepared a secret plan aimed at creating a disturbed political atmosphere in the area. This plan, which has been prepared in coordination between Syria and the Soviet Union, is designed to influence the steps to implement the Camp David peace agreements.
In today's issue the magazine says that this Syrian Ba'thist plan is based on a number of principal points:
1. Heating up the situation on the Syrian front to a certain point to create an atmosphere of tension and confusion in the area;
2. Creating an atmosphere of tension in southern Lebanon and armed clashes with the Lebanese rightist militia on the Israeli border;
3. Circulating false information about Israeli concentrations in the Golan.
The Arab circles added that President Hafiz al-Asad had presented this plan at the rejectionist front meeting in Damascus, and on the basis of this plan he asked Colonel al-Qadhdhafi for financial aid of about $600 million to Syria.
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
Already an English translation by FBIS from the Persian broadcast. No further translation made.
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Read from the committed page image; the whole page text is given. The reference number on the page reads 'NC270915Y'; the 'Y' is part of the FBIS code. Nothing was reworded.

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