OCTOBER 9 -- NOON -- EXCERPT (OVERVIEW) OF AGENCY SITUATION REPORT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-184-6-12-8
• Release Decision: RIFLIM
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: August 2, 2010
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: October 9, 1973
• Content Type: REPORT

No Objection to Declassification in Full 2010/08/02: LOC-HAK-184-6-12-8
October 9 -- Noon -- Excerpt (overview) of Agency situation
Report:
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eig '~n?'pitt_ hr Israeli cove s faLtack, the Syrians cG
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Agency paper also included the following on oil:
"According to press reports, Kuwait called today for an immed-
iate meeting of Arab oil ministers to discuss the role of
petroleum in the current crisis. The emergency meeting of the
Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC)
cold be for the purpose of discussing the flow of Arab oil to
Western consumer countries. Some of the Arab ministers who
will be called to attend the session are currently attending th-
OPEC conference in Vienna. Today's Journal of Commerce
reports that three Arab Mediterranean oil temrinals --
Baniyas (IPC/Syria); Tripoli (IPC/Lebanon); and Sidon (Tapline/
anon) have been closed to shipping presumably as a result of the current
crisis. This report has not been confirmed, but seems reasonably
in light of the danger to oil tankers in the area. If the
terminals have been shut down, it would represent a flow
stoppage of approximately 1.6 million barrels per day, almost
all of which goes to Western Europe."
On Resupply, Agency paper also notes "the Israelis have sufficen-
quantifies of ordnance of all kinds to pursue the war at a
relatively heavy level of intensity for about two weeks...the
Syrians probably have enough fuel and ordance on hand to continue
No Objection to Declassification in Full 2010/08/02 : LOC-HAK-184-6-12-8