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Directorate-General of Cultural Relations. ----
21 May 1946
MISSION ORDER.
The Directorate-General of Cultural Relations on the advice of the Excavations Commission, has instructed Mr Claude F.A. Schaeffer, Director of Research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Curator of the Museums of France, with the direction of the excavations and archaeological research at Ras Shamra near Latakia in Syria, at Malatya in Turkey, and at Enkomi on the island of Cyprus. It has also instructed him with scientific control of the excavations at Fara in Palestine.
The funds necessary for this research have been allocated from the excavation budget of the Directorate-General of Cultural Relations and will be placed at his disposal through the intermediary respectively of the General Delegation of France in the Levant at Beirut, the French Embassy at Ankara, and the Consulate of France at Larnaca.
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