CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1956/10/30

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• Collection: Current/Central Intelligence Bulletin Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 03179159
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• Document Creation Date: October 25, 2019
• Document Release Date: October 31, 2019
• Publication Date: October 30, 1956

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CONTENTS
1. ISRAELI ATTACK ON EGYPT
(page 3).
2. THE HUNGARIAN SITUATION (
(page 7).
3, POLAND CONTINUES TREND TOWARD MORE INDEPEND-
ENT POSITION (page 9).
4. MAJOR DISAGREEMENT REPORTED IN CZECH REGIME
(page 11).
5. YUGOSLAVS CONTINUE TO SUPPORT NATIONALIST
MOVEMENTS IN POLAND AND HUNGARY
(page 12).
6. INDIAN REACTION TO EVENTS IN HUNGARY AND POLAND
(page 13).
7. GENERAL STRIKE IN ALGERIA CALLED FOR 1 NOVEMBER
(page 14).
8. ASSASSINATION OF CUBAN INTELLIGENCE CHIEF
(page 15).
9. DEMOBILIZATION OF SOVIET ARMY OFFICERS REPORTED
HALTED I (page 16).
10. USSR DELIVERS JET AIRCRAFT TO AFGHANISTAN
(page 17).
11. INDONESIAN FOREIGN ER COMMENTS ON PEIPING'S
FOREIGN RELATIONS (page 18).
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THE ARAB-ISRAELI SITUATION
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1. ISRAELI ATTACK ON EGYPT (Situation as of 0100 EST)
As of 0100 EST, 30 October, no Egyptian
military reaction had been reported to
counter the advance by Israeli mobile
forces into the central desert portion of
the Sinai peninsula. Cairo has indicated
that it is "aware" of the Israeli action,
but that no contact has been made with
the invading force. The central portion
of the Sinai desert has been very thinly
occupied by Egyptian troops because of
rough terrain and lack of water.
The main object of the thrust into Sinai,
according to an Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman, is to
"eliminate Egyptian terrorist bases in the Sinai peninsula."
The Israelis state that the action, "followed military attacks
carried out by Egyptian forces on Israeli lines of communica-
tions on land and by sea. . ." A high Israeli official is re-
ported to have stated unofficially that the action is "too big
for a reprisal and too small for a war:' He intimated, how-
ever, that Israeli forces were not withdrawing as reprisal
raiders had done.
The present location and size of the
Israeli force are unclear. The only official Israeli statement
has claimed the force is dug in west of Nakhl, a road junction
about half way across Sinai which has served as an Egyptian
command post for the central area of the peninsula. Uncon-
firmed press reports from Jerusalem, however, have quoted
anonymous Israeli government sources as asserting their troops
are only 18 miles from the Suez Canal. (See map, p. 5.)
the Egyptian warships which Tel Aviv had claimed were
heading for the Israeli coast were in fact on a search mission
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for an Egyptian transport aircraft which was lost on a flight
from Damascus to Cairo.
Further evidence of French material
support for Israel has been reported by the American attaches
in Tel Aviv. On the night of 28-29 October a French merchant
vessel unloaded AMX light tanks, hall tracks, guns, and pos-
sibly other materiel at Haifa. On 29 October, three French
destroyers arrived in Haifa harbor.
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The IAC Watch Committee met at 1430
hours, 29 October, to consider information bearing on this
situation. The summarizing paragraph of the committee's
report is as follows:
"The Watch Committee concluded that
the scale and nature of the Israeli attack was sufficient to
precipitate war with Egypt. Whether war results depends
largely on the Egyptian reaction which is as yet unknown.
French-Israeli collaboration probably
� exists in connection with the Israeli move against Egypt with
at least the tacit approval of the British. The British and
French are prepared to and probably will intervene with force
in the Middle East as opportunity occurs in� connection with
the Israeli-Egyptian action.'' (
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