CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 4, 2003
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: November 5, 1966
• Content Type: REPORT

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3. Israel- Syria: Another serious incident could
precipitate Israeli retaliatory strike against
Syria. (Page 4)
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Israel-Syria: Israel probably considers that it
has exhausted peaceful international means for stop-
ping Syrian- supported terrorist raids into Israel, and
another serious incident almost certainly would pre-
cipitate an Israeli retaliatory strike against Syria.
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The US defense attache in Tel Aviv reports that
Israel's over-all readiness remains above normal.
An Israeli attack against Syria would probably involve
air strikes, possibly accompanied by ground action.
Israel took its complaint to the UN Security Coun-
cil four weeks ago, and has refrained from military
retaliation while the debate was in progress. There
have been ten more sabotage incidents in Israel in the
interim, in addition to recurrent clashes at the border
between Israeli and Syrian armed forces.
A six-nation resolution inviting Syria to take steps
to prevent incidents has been vetoed by the USSR, and
the Israelis would probably not consider a proposed
mild "consensus" statement by the Security Council
meaningful at this point.
Syria and Egypt on 4 November signed a joint de-
fense pact committing each signatory "to come to the
aid of the other if it is a victim of aggression. " Nasir,
however, with about 40, 000'troops in Yemen, would
not welcome a fight with Israel at this time. He there-
fore probably hopes he can restrain Syria from actions
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