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# :/NO FOREIGN DISSE/CONTROLLED DISSIM/NO DIABEN ABROAD/BACKGBOURD USE ONLYPage 2 of 6 pagesThe Congress was officially sponsored by the Algerian Committee of Solidarity with Palestine.2. The participants, for the most part, espoused the Chinese thosos regarding the "People's War" and appliod these theses to the Palestinian struggle. while net directly criticising the Soviet policies 1. the Middle East, it was evident in the Congress documents that the Europear militants sought to do so. For example, they strongly condeened the United Nations resolutions on the settlement of the Hiddle Rast conflict. The main conclusions of the Congress vero: an acceptance of the Al Fatah as 'eing the only geruine Palestinian revolutsonary organization, and a decision to create an information bureau in Ligiers which will be run by Palestinians. The bureau will provide information on developments in the Palestinian revolution to all the Palestinian committees throughout the world and to all revolutionary movements which support the Palestinian people. la conjunction with those Palestine committees, the fureau vill sponsor meetings, lectures, delates, fila shows and an annual conference. (Source Comment: Abu el Hassen,   a prominent leader of the Palestinian delegation, confided to one of the delegaten after the Congress that the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) would probably sponsor a conference in Jordan sometine in 1970 or 70 or 1971.ALL CARDS "-- A ALGERIA, ALGIERS ATENDED CONGRESSE PALESTINEa.Source Counent reconvention1.26.28some of the Algerian participant-observers, they were not:altogether pleased with the Congress, feeling that its con- clusions vere excessivelyfoftist. The chief spokesman for the Algerians was M'hamedy a z 1 d. who is the Algerian representative on the I'nited Nations Security Council.4. The delegatch slept at the Zeralda Tourist Center located about eleven ailes from the (lub des Pins, and were Lussed daily to the Congress site. The Algerian hosts sav to it that the delegalns were kept busy and together. Strict security was maintained and the delegates had no chance to single with the Algerian people. There was no list of delegates and several of the participants used pseudonyms.5. The first session of the Congress on 26 Decealer, which included the attendance of a large group of Algerians, was chaired Ly Larbf Bentouni (Algerian). (Field   Comment: TDCSI-B 315/05408-69, dated 31 December 1969, described Bentoumi as the Algerian defense lawyer in the recent trial in Switzerland of the three Palestinian terrorists charged with attacking an El Al Boeing 707 in Zurich in February 1969.) Most of the first session was devoted to assigning the delegates to the commissions and in arpanging the timing of the various speakers, such as YasiArafat, Al Fatah's official spokesman and chairman of the PLO. Upon the recommendation of a Palestinian representative, the Congress yoted Ly a majority of 33 votes to create three commissions Tor the event. These vere commonly known as follows: Political Commission, Information Commission and Organization Cossission.   (Source Comment: The Palestinians obviously had come to the Congi ses with only one inmediate practical aim, 1.e., to obtain loft-wing acceptance of the creation of a Palestinian information bureau.6. At the loginning of the second day of the Algiers Comgroas, 27 Deceaver, Bentouni ceded the chair to Nabil of the PLO. For the rest of the Congress the Algerians played no active role, thus leaving the Palestinians with considerable trecere of action in the proceedings. ThePLO MEMBERSECRET/NO FOREICH DISSEX CONTROLLE DI DISSEN ABROAD