CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 2, 2003
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: January 10, 1969
• Content Type: REPORT

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Central Intelligence Bulletin
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10 January 1969
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USSR - MIDDLE EAST: MOSCOW IS INTENT ON MAIN-
TAINING THE DIPLOMATIC MOMENTUM GENERATED BY ITS
NOTE OF 30 DECEMBER ON THE MIDDLE EAST.
ACTING FOREIGN MINISTER SEMENOV CALLED IN
AMBASSADOR THOMPSON ON 8 JANUARY TO URGE JOINT
SOVIET-AMERICAN EFFORTS TO FACILITATE AN AGREEMENT.
HOWEVER, SEMENOV WAS RELUCTANT TO SPELL OUT FURTHER
THE SOVIET POSITION ON A NUMBER OF CRUCIAL ISSUES
WHICH WERE HANDLED AMBIGUOUSLY IN THE RECENT NOTE.
AMONG THESE ISSUES ARE THE QUESTIONS OF IS-
RAELI ACCESS TO THE SUEZ CANAL AND A SETTLEMENT
OF ARAB-ISRAELI BOUNDARIES. SEMENOV INDICATED
THAT THE SOVIET GOVERNMENT IS LOATH TO BE PINNED
DOWN ON EITHER QUESTION AT THIS STAGE, BUT HE DID
IMPLY THAT MOSCOW CONSIDERS THAT THESE ARE MATTERS
TO BE WORKED OUT BY THE PROTAGONISTS THEMSELVES
AS PART OF A "PACKAGE" SETTLEMENT.
SEMENOV SUGGESTED THAT THE SUEZ QUESTION WAS
COVERED BY THE NOTEOS REFERENCE TO ASSURING
"FREEDOM OF NAVIGATION IN INTERNATIONAL WATER-
WAYS.r'" HE REFUSED, HOWEVER, TO BE DRAWN OUT ON
THE BOUNDARIES QUESTION. SEMENOV NONETHELESS
REPEATEDLY REFERRED TO THE PLAN AS A OdSERIOUSrd
EFFORT TO FIND A "STABLE" PEACE.
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IN AN EFFORT TO GIVE FURTHER ENCOURAGEMENT
TO THE FRENCH, MOSCOW IS TAKING AN EVEN MORE POSI-
TIVE LINE WITH PARIS ON PROSPECTS FOR A SETTLEMENT.
ON 6 JANUARY, SOVIET DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER KOZY-
REV TOLD A FRENCH OFFICIAL THAT MOSCOW BELIEVES
IT CAN PERSUADE CAIRO TO AGREE TO ALL ASPECTS OF
A SETTLEMENT BEFORE ISRAELI WITHDRAWAL BEGINS,
KOZYREV ALSO SAID THAT MOSCOW HAS NO
J C IONS TO BORDER ADJUSTMENTS OR TO IVING
ISRAEL ACCESS TO THE SUEZ CANAL.
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