ISRAEL-U.S.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-185-4-62-4
• Release Decision: RIFLIM
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: December 20, 2012
• Sequence Number: 62
• Publication Date: October 13, 1973
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

No Objection to Declassification in Full 2012/12/20: LOC-HAK-185-4-62-4
72 L-4 .
ISRAEL-U.S.
3Y FRED S. ?HOFFAN
WASHIGTON (A?)-THE UNITED STATES WILL START REPLACING SOME OF
ISRAEL'S SEVERE BATTLE LOSSES?IN.PLANES, .TANKS WY,) OTHER MILITARY
EQUIPMENT IN A FEW DAYS, U.S. GOVERNMENT SOURCES SAID TODAY..
THE PENTAGON REFUSED TO DISCUSS THE :,ATTER.
BUT NIXON ADMINISTRATION ?SOURCES SAID THE BASIC DECISION HAS
SEEN UDE AND THAT ?MOVEMENTS OF MAJOR U.S. MILITARY GEAR TO ISRAEL
WOULD 3EGIN SOON. ?
SOURCES SAID DETAILS CN NUMERS AND QUANTITIES STILL ARE UNDER
DISCUSSION.
?I THERE YERE INDICATIONS THAT THE UNITED STATES t'OULD 0 FRW1 ITS?
AIR FORCE AN;-) ARMY RESOURCES IN THE UNITED STATES, POSSIELY EUROPE
AND OTHER REGIONS OF THE YORLD.
? A IDE VARIETY OF ILITARY UMPMENT 12AS SAID TO DE ON THE LIST.
THE ACTION, MUCH MORE SIGNIFICANT THAN AN c0:;IJNITION RESUPPLY
AIRLIFT ALREADY UNDER NAY, COMES AGAINST A 3ACKGR3UNj OF MOUTAING
ISRAELI COMSAT LOSSES, A GRI4IG SOVIET SUPPLY AIRLIFT TO EGYPT AND
SYRIA AND A 'IDENING aF THE MIDDLE EAST YAR,
MEAHILE, U.S. TNTELLICECE ANALYSTS ESTIMATED THAT ISRAEL'S
WAR SUPPLIES MIGHT LAST ONLY ANOTHER TWO WEEKS IF THE FIGHTING
CONTINUES AT THE Tr27:,IPO OF THE FIRST iTEEK'S AIR AND GROUND BATTLES.
K5255PED OCT. 13
73
WASH?ADD ISRAEL-U.S. (72)
SINCE LAST SATURDAY, AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE REPORTS, THE ISRAEL.Ts
HAVE LOST AT LEAST 30 OF THEIR FIGHTERS AD FIGHTER-DOM3ERS, NEARLY
ONE,.THIRO OF THE ISRAELI AIR STRIXING FORCE BEFORE? THE OUT6REAK.
ISRAEL' .S TANK LOSSES HAVE RANGED AROUND ?50, OR MORE THAN
ONE-THIRD OF ITS AROR STRENGTH GOING INTO THIS NEW ROUND OF WAR,?
U.S. SOURCES SAID.
ARAB LOSSES ALSO HAVE BEEN HEAVY. AMERICAN ANALYSTS CALCULATE
SYRIAN ARMS STOCKS MIGHT LAST LESS THAN A YEEK, EGYPTIAN SUPPLIES
PERHAPS 10 DAYS ARE UNLESS THE FIGHTING SLAUFS.
SYRIA IS SAID TO HAVE LOST MORE THAN 90 PLANES OUT OF ITS
APPROXIMATELY 250 FIGHTERS AND EGYPT OVER SC OF ITS ROUGHLY 550
STRIKE PLANES,
U.S. OFFICIALS SAID THE SOVIET AIRLIFT TO SYRIA AND EGYPT IS
OPERATING AROUND-THE-CLOCK AND THAT MORE THAN 2,000 TONS OF
1:EAPONS,. A:'MUNITiJN AND 3THF MILITARY SUPPLIES HAVE BEEN DELIVERED
3Y SOVIET TRANSPORT?PLAES SINCE 4,ID-4.17:EK.
IN THE OPINIO N OF.U.S. INTELLIGENCE SPECIALISTS, SOVIET ',',ILITAEY
PERSONNEL, 'EXCEPT EON. ADVISERS, ALMOST EXCEPT FOR ADVISERS, ALMOST
CERTAINLY VILL NOT BE INVOLVED IN THE ARAB-ISRAELI FIGHTING.
1(733PED OCT. 13
No Objection to Declassification in Full 2012/12/20: LOC-HAK-185-4-62-4