A recent release of documents in the CIA's cache — codenamed Crest — totalling up to 13 million documents reveal the CIA's plans to oust the Syrian President, Hafez al-Assad.

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The documents date back to the years through 1984-1986 and purport to reveal plans to strengthen resistance against the former President Assad within Syria.

In the 28 page document entitled: "Syria: Scenarios Of Dramatic Political Change," the CIA notes that, "factionalism plagues the political and military elite of Syria, and the military's strong tradition of coup plotting could reassert itself."

The document also accused Assad of being in, "poor health," due to a heart attack he suffered in 1983 and said that Assad had failed to designate a successor or provide for a transfer of power. The former President of Syria lived for nearly another 15 years before he passed his leadership on to his son Basher al-Assad.

The CIA goes on to speculate if Hafez al-Assad selects his brother Rif`at al-Assad as his successor, his enemies within the military would rise up against him to overthrow his presidency.

The document also contains numerous hypotheticals, mostly surrounding what Moscow's response would be if the government of Syria collapsed.

Further noting that an, "Alawi military regime government would continue financing Lebanese terrorist, advance confrontation with Israel and could have close ties to the then Soviet Union USSR."