CONSEQUENCES OF CERTAIN US COURSES OF ACTION IN THE MIDDLE EAST

• Document Type: FOIA
• Keywords: GUIDANCE FOR CIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005622700
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: June 24, 2015
• Document Release Date: October 26, 2011
• Case Number: F-2011-00518
• Publication Date: October 21, 1955

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MWI FOR #'{ UNDER ECWTARY
L=Tt oaa aoquuucee
in the Mid
1:. s=hat wouW be the
## z'verye yi'i
aged Iraq
-ences if
bl=k gin, ` control there, -rarer
of Soviet wrw-s' wad t o ?o e t -possible Syrian uv . cut off
0W Iraqi oil h Syria e terx e . ports. Such
move would iu it a long - starjing Iraqi
r y l e t. t Naafi that It favor a
awre iorwar4l' Irate -Policy in Syria,, though it. warned hi
tpro to mi x action vhichcow be ci . agaiaat
3. The cha as r0 p Gba y IG. $ than evisa that I 'aq
ld install, and a ai either p ro-I .r x egi in Syria
V ti ..
hand to Iraq r Turkey, o by coves of
vitMhte u ess the takes early .as:tia x eiU%ex by
aeil leftist to ogre I am. Syrian ov ent
o3 ai;i
P eo 4 * o d r MOus ;0 i D sc now Cad-
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APPROVED FOR RELEASE - CIA INFO^ DATE: 09-26-2011
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O"Iy p>e-^ ? from AbraAking &U ,4th the .:
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 O/NE:(app. by Board and DDI, 21 Oct.)
Distribution:
Orig and 2 - addressee
- Mr. Fisher Howe, State Dept.
1 - D.CI
1 - DDI
1 - Executive Registry
1 - AD/NE
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p :I e that the Usw W" aU4
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