</s>APPROVED FOR RELEASE 2025 UNDER EXECUTIVE ORDER 14176 SLUITL CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY WASHINGTON, D.C. 20505 28 JUL 1968 TO: Director Federal Bureau of Investigation Attention: Mr. S. J. Pepich FROM: Deputy Director for Plans SURJECT: Sirmi Investigation 1. A usually reliable source whose previous reporting has been accurate revealed to our Beirut representative that on 22 June 1968 Salmi (SAZI), publisher of Hawatli, a newspaper in Lebanon, Arab Ameri (JAM), Press Com- selor and Information Officer of the United Arab Republic (JAMI), Embassy in Lebanon, he was obtaining good results in rising funds for the defense further said he had met with SIRIH, UABY, SAZI, and Wald Wald ALDI to study and organizate SIRIAH's defense. They had decided to meet with SIRIIN's father and send some people from our place to SHIRAH's brother give it to proper importance in the international plane. They have also dedicted to its Arab countries collecting money. LAZI said he has had received provides to 10,000 Lebanese pounds from the collected. They also and 300,000 Lebanon pounds in Lebanon alone. (Note: Approximately three Lebanese pounds equal one. U.S. Dollar). LAZI indicated these activities were not related to those of the Federation of Arab Lawyers. 2. Our files contain the following information on the above individuals: Salmi LAWZI, according to a reliable source, is considered by the U.R to be a strong pro-historical-athough it is recognized as some- times strews for opportunities reasons-and its magazine is considered by the LAB Embassy in Lebanon and Cairo 8,000 Albanese pounds LAWZI reported recently a subsidy of about 8,500 Lebanese pounds Monthly for this widely above. This publication from that AMAL, the UAR Press Counsel noted above. The source states after the June and JAMAL and other U.AR Embassy officials thought it had turned pro-U.S ., JAML, and other UAE embassies through the connection, LAWZI told another reliable source in September 1967 he had no longer considered himself a Nisirist. LAWI said Nasir Ahmed obed-3 58-138-1573 SCARING July 76 1959 FRI-LOS ANGELES GROUP Exchirghed to ufersers decisionation

John F. Kennedy, assassination, investigations:

* June 22, 1968: A reliable source reported to the CIA that Salmi (SAZI), publisher of Hawatli newspaper in Lebanon, was obtaining funds for the defense and had met with SIRIH, UABY, SAZI, and Wald ALDI to study and organize SIRIAH's defense.
* June 1967: The Arab-Israeli crisis demonstrated weaknesses in Islamism, leading Salmi (SAZI) to return to a more classical brand of Arab nationalism.

Related individuals:

* Shafiq UABANI was described as a chief local employee of ARAMCO Overseas Corporation, Beirut, and close to the Republic and Palestinian radicals.
* Yusuf SAHIM (SAHIM) SAYSATOR is probably identical with an individual who "confessed" Arab Nationalist Movement connections in February 1963.
* Wald Wald KALDIYI is a professor at American University of Beirut and was described as violently anti-U.S. in May 1965.
* ABDUBAH ABD-AL-ALFARMAN is possibly identical with one Khalil Palestine, owner of CCC Engineering in Beirut.

Locations:

* Lebanon
* Washington, D.C.
* Paris

Dates:

* June 22, 1968
* June 1967
* September 1967
* May 1965
* February 1963

RFK Declassified Files

07169726_ddp_to_fbi_subj_sirhan_investigation_23_jul_1968.pdf

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