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On July 19, the Egyptian Government Announced, the Discovery of a Plot to Assassinate Nasser And. All His Ministers And. Replace 2 cms PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE fief.: Please note that this copy is supplied subject to the Public Record Office's terms and conditions and that your use of it may be subject to copyright restrictions. Further information is given in the enclosed Terms and Conditions of supply of Public Records' leaflet EGYPT: WAPDIST PLOT CONFIDENTIAL On July 19, the Egyptian Government announced, the discovery of a plot to assassinate Nasser and. all his Ministers and. replace them with a Government headed by Mohammed Salah el Din, former vYafdist foreign Minister, with another prominent Wafdist ex-Minister, Abdul Fattah Hassan.as Minister of the Interior. According to the Government announcement, the plotters, who were arrested during the last week of April, included seven former army officers, tv/o serving officers and five civilians (including the two V/afdist Ministers). Rumours of the plot had been rife 'for some time, and fairly accurate accounts had. appeared in the Syrian and Lebanese press as early as June 26. 2. The Government announcement is imprecise in several important respects but from it the following picture emerges. A group of army officers, who had been dismissed from the service for "reasons connected with their military conduct during military operations" got together early in 1956 and established a secret military organisation called "The Supporters of serving Justice". This body then set about recruiting/officers. The ring leader was General Ahmed Atif Nassar (retired) and his associates included Colonel Hassan Siyani (retired) and Llah'or Mohammed Arnin Fawzi. 3. Plans for the coup seem to have been far advanced before the plotters made any effort to contact the Wafdist politicians. Col. Siyam was a friend of Abdul Mohammed al Istambouli, an employee of the Ministry of National Guidance and formerly Press Secretary to Mohammed Salah el Din. In August 1956 Siyam arranged a meeting between Istambouli, General Hassar and Major Fawzi and they discussed plans. / They 1 2 cms PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE ins I •) I 2 Please note that this copy is supplied subject to the Public Record Office's terms and conditions and that your use of it may be subject to copyright restrictions. Further information is given in the enclosed Terms and Conditions of supply of Public Records' leaflet They finally agreed that the civilians to form the government after the coup was carried out should, "be Mohammed Salah el Din and Abdul Fatten Hassan. Istambouli arranged a meeting between Nassar and Salah el Din at which the latter agreed to accept the Premiership. This apparently all took place before the events of November, Siyarn appears to have acted as the spokesman of the military group although Istambouli was the original contact man. ' U. The events of November brought matters to a head. On November 2 Istambouli introduced Siyarn to • | Abdxil Fattah Hassan. Hassan said that the military would first have to rally round a senior military man and assume authority before the politians could act. lie assured Siyara however that provided a few of the officers in the Ministry of the Interior were removed, he was confident that he could run it satisfactorily. 5. In February 1957 General Nassar returned from abroad bringing with him some revolver silencers for the assassination plot, and in order to prepare public opinion for the coup, a pamphlet was then drafted attacking the regime. For this purpose, Istambouli approached a journalist friend Mohammed Abdullah al Sav/adi. The pamphlets were prepared for distribution, but were seized by the Government. 6. According to the Government announcement, they w ere informed of the plot by someone who had been asked to join. News of it reached them in April 1957. This, if true, is in some ways the most striking aspect of the whole affair - that it should have gone on for nearly a year without the Government knowing anything about it, especially as the conspirators were evidently / contacting ins~~l " 1 2 Ref.: Please note that this copy is supplied subject to the Public Record Office's terms and conditions and that your use! iof it may be subject to copyright restrictions. Further information is given in the enclosed Terms and Conditions of supply of Public Records' leaflet ^^^^ contacting serving officers from the outset. 7. It is unlikely that the plot had any wider ramifications than those indicated in the Government's own announcement. The long delay in publishing details might suggest that the plot was more extensive than the Government dared reveal, but it is more likely that they simply wanted to avoid disfiguring the stage so carefully set for the July elections. 0. The Egyptian press has subsequently published varying reports of the policy that the plotters would have followed if they had been successful. According to "Al I/Iasa" they had the following aims:- (a) to improve Anglo-Egyptian relations (although Tt**fc no renewal of the 195U Troaou^F was contemplated); (b) to cancel trade agreements with the Soviet Union, China and Czechoslovakia; (c) to annul the Arab Solidarity Pact and the Joint Command set up by Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Jordan; (d) to consider as void all measures, laws and treaties passed by the Government in the previous five years. Of these, (a) and (b) may well have been among the true aims of the conspirators; (c) and (d) look like an attempt to blacken them in the eyes of Egyptian and Arab public opinion. 9. We can regard this development as moderately heartening. Next best to a plot against Nasser that succeeds is a plot that fails. Even the latter shows that the former stability of the regime has been shaken. C7 I?» Bi'endiey; July 25, 1957 1 2 Please note that this copy is supplied subject to the Public Record Office's terms and conditions and that your use of it may be subject to copyright restrictions. Further information is given in the enclosed Terms and Conditions of supply of Public Records' leaflet ^^^^^ -62 ^J- > J\ - 1 - APPENDIX A; EGYPT Al Government statement on Attempted coup against Abel al-Nasir Cairo in Arabic home service 03.^5, "Voice of the Arabs" 0^.00 and "Sudan Corner" 0^.30 GMT 19.7.5V. Text of broadcast report on Government statement: The Government learned that some former army officers had contacted certain civilians who belonged to the dissolved parties and planned with them a plot against the Government regime, for the purpose of carrying out a coup d'etat and enabling the corrupt reactionary regimes to return to power and dominate the country's future. News of this plot reached the appropriate authorities in April 1957 when it was learned that a croup of officers who had been dismissed from the service for reasons connected with their military conduct during the military operations were trying to con- tact officers and include them in a secret military organisation called "The Group of the Upholders of Justice". It was learned that this organisation had been set up about a year earlier, with the agreement of certain officers and civilians who belonged to the dissolved VJafd ?<arty, for the purpose of taking steps to get rid of the present regime by assassinating the President of the republic and all the Ministers at one and the same time when they met at the president's office and thereupon proclaiming the formation of a Government led by Mohammed Salah al-Din. in which Abd al-Fattah Hasan would participate as Minister of the interior. The appropriate authorities were informed of this plot by a person with whom members of the afore-mentioned organisation had contact and whom they had requested to Join the organisation and participate in the implementation of the plot, which was scheduled to take place in the latter part of April 1957. The organisers of this plot were arrested during the last week of April 1957. They were: Brig.Qen. (Retd.) Ahmed Atif Nassar, Lt.Col. (Retd.) Hasan Abd al-MaJld Siyam, and MaJ. Mohammed Amin Fawzi, assisted by Abd al-Hamid Mustafa al-Islambouli, who is an employee of the Ministry of National Guidance and who was earlier employed as Press Secretary to Mohammed Salah al-Din at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and who has acted as link between the afore-mentioned organisation and the civilians who participated in the plot. All persons who were found to have participated in the plot were also arrested. Plotters and others arrested numbered seven former army officers, two serving officers, and five civilians including Mohammed Salah al-Din and Abd al-Fattah Hasan, The State prosecutor's Department has carried out investigations. Hasan Abd al-MaJid Slyam, Mohammed Amin Fawzi, and Abd al-Hamid al--l3lambouli have, in the course of the investigations, made detailed confessions about their participation in the planning of the outlines of the plot under the supervision of Brlg.Qen. Ahmed Atif Nassar, the head of the organisation, since last summer. In their respective confessions they gave details of the plot which, in brief, stipulated that theyv.-ouia storm the president's office dressed in military uniform and carrying machine-guns, with some of them wearing the uniform of the Military Police in order that they might easily surprise the guard and gain admittance to the President's office, when they would proceed to the meeting hall where they would commit their crime by assassinating all present in the hall. The accueed Abd al-Hamid al-islambouli confessed that he had been in contact with thio military organisation since August 1956 through his brother officer Hasan Siyam, who had arranged for him to meet the head of the military organisation, Brig.
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