Communist Influence in the Middle East - Secret Intelligence Files

Document Title	Communist Influence in the Middle East
Reference	CAB 158/9
Document Date	21 April 1950
Conflicts	Cold War
Themes	Propaganda, Censorship and Psychological Warfare, Foreign Policy and International Relations
Regions	Africa, Europe, Mediterranean, Middle East
Countries	Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, Egypt, Greece, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Palestine, Persia, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Soviet Union, Sudan, Syria, Turkey, Yemen
Document Type	Reports, Memoranda
Organisations	Communist Party of Great Britain, Chiefs of Staff, Foreign Office, Joint Intelligence Committee (Middle East), Ministry of Defence, United Nations, Joint Intelligence Sub-Committee
People	John Gardiner, Neill Ogilvie-Forbes, Patrick Reilly, Arthur Shortt, Percy Sillitoe, Kenneth Strong

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communism, ideology, Arab world, subversion, fifth columnists, Iranian politics, foreign policy, non-British agents, Soviet foreign policy, Soviet agents, predicting enemy intentions, geographic intelligence, colonies, empire, police

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