AD HOC REQUIREMENTS COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS ON THE MIDDLE EAST

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP61S00750A000200070061-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 28, 2013
• Sequence Number: 61
• Publication Date: May 9, 1957
• Content Type: MF

Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/28: CIA-RDP61500750A000200070061-4
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9 May 1957
MEMORANDUM FOR: Project Director
SUBJECT:
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Ad Hoc Requirements Committee
Recommendations on the Middle East
1. The Ad Hoc Requirements Committee members agreed
that the following advice should be provided the Project AQUATONE
with regard to Middle Zest requirements:
The Ad Hoc Requirements Committee continues to
attach greater priority of importance to targets set forth
in lists approved by it covering Western USSR and the
Fax East as compared to the Middle East. Within the
Middle East, and beceuse of the long interval since the
last coverage of Egypt and because of rumored buildup
at certain key points through Soviet aid, the Ad Hoc
Requirements Committee recommends that coverage of
Egypt be undertaken as soon as feasible. In equating the
extent of importance. it is not believed from available
source* that this alleged buildup portends an imminent
new move by Egypt in the Middle East situation, but
accurate information obtainable by AQUATONE means
could be extremely useful in estimating possible future
Egyptian moves.
JQR:cw
I -Project Director
2-Deputy Project Director
3-Director of Operations
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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/28: CIA-RDP61500750A000200070061-4
? JAMES C. REBER
Chairman
Ad Hoc Requirements Committee
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