MUFTI DENIES HE PLOTTED AGAINST ALLIES
DOCUMENT A FORGERY Receivecl Wednesday, 11 a.m. ALEXANDRIA, Aug. 20. An Arab spoKesman said the Mufti has described as forgery the document found in Gennany, purporting to show that he fomented a revolution in Arab countries during the war. He suggested that Zionists were possioly responsible ior the forgery. A cable on July 18 stated that captured German documents disclosed that the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem participated, at least for three years, in Axis plans to sabotage the Allied war effort in the Near East. The Mufti is described as an intimate collaborator in the planning of dynamitings and revolts in Arab lands. He conferred personally in Berlin, on July 13, 1942, with very high intelligence officers. He supplied a Moslem
priest on August 30, 1942, to accomi pany hve German agents in a para- ! chute jump 'behind the Russian ! lines south-east of Grozny, for a sabotage operation. The Mufti then moved from Berlin to Rome for negotiations, the documents declared, later sending envoys to Berlin who arranged for their superior to receive a German radio transmitter and receiver and a code book. When the Britisb reoccupied Bagdad the Mufti went to Persia and took refuge at the Japanese Legation.
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Chronicle (Levin), 21 August 1946, Page 5
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