CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

• Document Type: CREST
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• Document Page Count: 13
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 31, 2003
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: April 10, 1973
• Content Type: REPORT

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ISRAEL-FEDAYEEN: Israeli forces attack guerrilla
sites in Lebanon following fedayeen attacks in
Nicosia. (Page 1)
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CZECHOSLOVAKIA - WEST GERMANY: Talks on normaliza-
tion of relations to resume. (Page 7)
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PORTUGUESE GUINEA: Insurgents using antiai-r-cr-a-ft
missile. Page 12)
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ISRAEL-FEDAYEEN: C Israeli forces attacked six
guerrilla sites in Lebanon last night, reportedly
killing two fedayeen leaders. The raids followed
swiftly fedayeen terrorist actions in Nicosia ear-
lier yesterday.
An Israeli military intelligence. spokesman said
that about a company of paratroops were transported
by sea to five locations near Beirut and one near
Sidon in southern Lebanon. The Beirut targets in-
cluded the residences of leading Fatah figures;
press sources indicate that Black September Organi-
zation (BSO) leader Muhammad Yusuf Najjar and
Fatah General Command member Kamal Adwan were killed.
Other Beirut sites attacked included two Fatah
weapons manufacturing facilities, Fatah's headquar-
ters for its Gaza Strip operations, and the head-
quarters of Nayif Hawatmah's Popular Democratic
Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The target
north of Sidon was a vacant Fatah vehicle repair
facility.
The Israeli spokesman claimed that some re-
sistance was encountered, despite the surprise.
Four Israelis were wounded, but all forces were
returned by sea to Israel. The spokesman empha-
sized the attacks were part of Israel's policy of
hitting those responsible for international terror-
ism. 3
In Nicosia, the bombing of the Israeli ambas-
sador's residence and the attack on the El Al air-
craft, apparently the work of the BSO, resulted in
a number of Cypriot and terrorist casualties. The
Israeli Ambassador and his family were unharmed.
The terrorist operation at the airport seems to
have been an attempt to hijack an El Al aircraft,
which was about to depart for Israel. The terror-
ists involved in the action at the ambassador's
residence presumably intended to escape on this
plane. A flight plan on a captured terrorist indi-
cates the group planned to fly to Libya.
The Makarios government had warned earlier
this month that it would not tolerate the export
of terrorism to Cyprus, alluding to the recent
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assassinations of a Fatah representative and an
Israeli national. Fedayeen terrorists had generally
refrained from direct action in Cyprus so that the
island would not be denied them as a transit stop
and contact point for operations elsewhere.
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CZECHOSLOVAKIA - WEST GERMANY: Talks on nor-
malization of relations will resume in Bonn on
Thursday. Prague apparently is now willing to back
down from its demand that West Germany recognize
the invalidity of the 1938 Munich Agreement ab
initio. This would remove the obstacle that has
ea ocked the discussions for almost a year.
The West Germans argue that the Munich Agree-
ment was legally valid when signed, but was inval-
idated by Nazi Germany with the occupation of
Czechoslovakia in 1939. Bonn has been concerned
about the legal and practical problems involving
the legal and civil status of some two million
Sudeten Germans now residing in West Germany and
compensation claims that could result from declar-
ing the agreement invalid ab initio.
Moscow apparently pressed the Czechoslovaks
to work out a compromise formula because Prague's
intransigence had become incompatible with the
Kremlin's pursuit of detente. Since late last
year, support for ab initio has been largely ab-
sent from Soviet and East European statements.
Success in the talks would also open the way for
Bulgaria and Hungary to normalize relations with
West Germany.
Prague reportedly wants to conclude the dis-
cussions by mid-May when Soviet party chief Brezh-
nev will visit Bonn. The West Germans probably
believe it is not necessary to rush into formal
diplomatic relations and a non-aggression pact
with Prague. Bonn presumably believes that a state-
ment that West Germany and Czechoslovakia agree in
principle to establish diplomatic relations would
be enough to improve the atmosphere before Brezhnev
arrives.
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PORTUGUESE GUINEA: Evidence is mounting that
the insurgents are now using surface-to-air missiles.
Since 28 March, the Portuguese have announced
that two of their military aircraft in Portuguese
Guinea have been downed by rocket fire. A Fiat G-91
jet fighter was shot down along the border with
Guinea on 29 March, and a T-6 propeller-driven
fighter-bomber was hit on 6 April while searching
for a light plane that had crashed from unknown
causes.
rebel communique issued in late March claimed a
total of five Portuguese planes had been destroyed
since 23 March.
Although the use of antiaircraft rockets can-
not be confirmed at this time,
the confirmed loss of two planes, strongly sug-
gest the insurgents are employing more advanced
weapons. Inability to counter Portugal's increas-
ingly effective airpower has been a significant
impediment to the rebel military effort since late
1968.
The most likely surface-to-air missile to be
supplied by the rebels' main arms source, the So-
viet Union, would be the Russian SA-7 (Strela). It
has been used in Vietnam, and is known to have been
supplied to Egypt and possibly Syria and Iraq. This
would be its first use in sub-Saharan Africa. The
SA-7, which can be carried by one man, is a shoulder-
fired heat-seeking missile similar to the US Redeye.
The SA-7 is particularly effective against heli-
copters and slower jet and propeller-driven aircraft,
such as those Portugal is using in Portuguese Guinea.
The missile is.simply operated and maintained and,
consequently, well-suited to rebel needs.
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