Syria, 1962 — dissident coup conspiracy
Event Summary
This entry is coded 29 July 1962, during the chaotic separatist period that followed Syria's 28 September 1961 secession from the United Arab Republic. The restored civilian government under President Nazim al-Qudsi was fragile and dominated by a fractured army split along political, regional and religious lines. In late March and early April 1962 Syria was racked by coups and counter coups: Lt.
Col. Abd al-Karim al-Nahlawi seized power on 28 March, and Nasserist officers led by Jassem Alwan rose in Homs on 31 March and again on 2 April, before an army compromise at Homs on 1 April exiled the main figures and reinstated Qudsi. Through the summer of 1962 factional plotting continued, with the Ba'ath party's secret Military Committee planning to seize power through a conventional coup and Nasserist networks pressing for reunification, all building toward the Ba'athist coup of 8 March 1963.
The July coding sits inside this continuum of separatist era army conspiracy rather than a single named plot.
Researched Details
Researched
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Cross-Reference
Only one dataset carries it. One of the three reference datasets we check against carries this event; the others do not list it. That is not a contradiction — the datasets cover different periods and use different thresholds — but it means the record has had less outside corroboration.
Identifiers for finding this same event in the other datasets:
- Cline Center id
65207291962
How the match is made is described in crossref-report.md.
Outcome and Target
Coup Atlas research identifies the target as: President al-Qudsi's secessionist government survived into 1963 but was swept away by the Ba'athist coup of 8 March 1963.
Baseline coding: Plot discovered and disrupted before execution. Recorded leader fate: remained in office; not physically harmed. The baseline file does not name individual targets; researched names are kept in a separate layer.
Baseline Dataset Citation
Baseline Source-Document Entries
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Chicago Daily Tribune
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