THE SYRIAN COUP

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79T00429A001100020034-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 27, 2006
• Sequence Number: 34
• Publication Date: March 8, 1963
• Content Type: MEMO

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY.
Office of Current Intelligence
8 March 1963
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE MEMORANDUM
SUBJECT: The Syrian Coup
1. All evidence so far indicates that Nasir
has been taken by surprise a second time within a
month by an Arab coup.
2. Today's Syrian coup is believed to have
been supported from Iraq and to have derived its
inspiration from the anti-Qasim movement carried
out there on 8 February.
3. Syria's new leaders are being very care-
ful to hide their identities and have mentioned
the name of only one of their military leaders--
the chief of the Syrian security service.
4. Repercussions from the development in
Syria will be felt in Jordan and Saudi Arabia.
King Husayn almost certainly will regard it as a
threat to his regime.
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ra is is likely to feel that his country is
further imperiled.
5. Nasir, while quick to declare his support
for the new regime, probably will regard it as a
new threat to his goal of hegemony over the Arab
world.
6. Israel will examine the situation from
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the point of view of what it does in the long run
for Nasir's potential power in the Arab world.
7. Moscow has so far reported the coup in
a factual manner but must regard it as another
setback following that in Iraq.
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