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    "ocrText": "SECRET\nMost of the 50,000 Italians in the Arab States are concentrated in Egypt, where they\nconstitute the second largest foreign colony. They are fairly well integrated into\nEgyptian national life, and are generally conservative and anti-Communist. More sus-\nceptible to Communist agitation would be the 600 Italian ex-prisoners employed in the\nDhahran oilfield in Saudi Arabia.\n23. GREECE.\nCommunist accession to power in Italy would have a disheartening effect on the\nGreek people, already discouraged by the endless struggle with the Communist-led\nguerrillas. There would be no large-scale defections to the Communist cause, however,\nsince the division between Communists and anti-Communists has already been sharply\ndrawn by civil war. The old bitterness against the Italian people (which all but died\nout after the Italian surrender) would revive. It is just possible that there might re-\nvive with it a spirit of Greek patriotism like that of 1940, which might lead to greater\npolitical solidarity in the face of national peril and to more effective collaboraton with\nUS officials in Greece. The sense of greater danger would certainly lead to demands\nfor increased US support and possibly for US military intervention.\n11\nSECRET"
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