MIDDLE EAST HOSTILITIES DIA SITUATION REPORT #65

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-543-6-2-0
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: March 11, 2011
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: October 22, 1973
• Content Type: REPORT

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0121110E: DIA Analysis
1. GENERAL
NSA review completed
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DIA, NAVY
reviews
completed.
4. (8/NFD) Empt and IStael have accepted the cease7.?fire
reAo1utb*.6 of the UN Security Council:, scheduIed.:.to take effect
shortly before 1700Z.. No major clashes have been reported in
recent hours to Suggest Significant laSt-minute:i0OkeYing:fok::
position on the Egyptian front. Tel Aviv, claims to contrel an
area almost 80) square kilometers to the Nest of? the sues
Canal, but Eg)ptian units continue to operate in some rerts of
this area. TLeir forces continue to hold two major areas on the
Zast Bank.
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Syria has not yet accepted the cease-fire
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XesolUtion, but Iraq has rejected it, while Jordan has agreed
to it. .Should Dasmascus eventually?apcept the resolution and
Iraq continue to reject it, the large Iraqi forces in Syria
could be a serious problem for the Syrian Government. Clashes
took place on the 21st -- and into the night -- between Israeli
and Syrian troops on the slopes of -Mt Hermon, as Israel claims
to have secured the northern Golan Heights area captured by the
Syrians early in the fighting. Israel -claims to, control-some
481 square kilometers of Syrian territory in addition'to.the
Goan-Heights.
2. EGYPTIAN FRONT
a. (e) No major 'Clashes have been .*ported on. the front on,
the 224. ?,
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b. (S/NFD) Israeli forces claim to control the West Bank of
the Suez Cana q froM near Ismailia to the southern end of the
Little Bitter La)c.e and out some 30 kilometers (18 nautical miles).
to About 32'3-.004E. Israeli control of this area is not believed
to be tOtaL since some ?Egylitian unite were bypassed in the Israeli
sweep through the area.
3. SYRIAN FRONT
. a. tC) The Israelis have apparently cleared the northern
Golan Heights area -- near the base of Mt. Hermon -- of Syrian
forces that moved into the area early in the current hostilities.
Paratroops and the Golani Brigade, with extensive air support,
are said to have secured the area.
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b. :(C) Tel Aviv claims to have destroyed a railroad bridge
leading from the port of Latakia to Damascus. Meanwhile, the '
northern sector of the Syrian front has remained gemerally quiet.
4. OTTLER ARAB ACTIVITY
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S. SOVIET ACTIVITY
(1) GROUND
. (U) Nothing new to report,
(2) NAVY
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(S) The force level of the Mediterranean Squadron has
increased to 80 ships with the addition of a naval-associated mer-
chant tanker from the Black Sea.
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