MIDDLE EAST HOSTILITIES DIA SITUATION REPORT #74

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-543-7-14-6
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: August 12, 2010
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: October 25, 1973
• Content Type: REPORT

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. a.? (SS) The entire Egyptian front remained relatively quiet
this morning as UN oVservers began their duties.
b. (TSU) The UN cease-fire headquarters in Jerusalem
-veDoiriLed_n_o_around or air activitylate last night.
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c. (U) The UN Security Council adjourned early this
morning without discussing a Middle East cease-fire supervision
plan. Eight nonaligned nations -- -Guinea, Kenya, Sudan, India,
Indonesia, Panama? Peru, and Yugoslavia ?*proposed sending an
armed UN military force to police the truce and to' increase the
overa11.0bserver force on both fronts. Cairo has .claimed that,
Tel Aviv was waging a "new and treacherous war" against its
forces; however, Israel said the shooting has died down on the
Suez Canal and that the Syrian front is also quiet. ?
? 2. %EGYPTIAN FRONT
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% 3. SYRIAN FRONT
The Lebanese complained of Israeli
Mortar and artillery fire on several of their villages.at
241400z. UN obs'ervers were unable tio confirm the complaint.
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.c. (S/NF/NDA/CD) Syrian Minister of War Maj Gen Tales
said a new Syrian armored brigade was being formed to replace
the Jordanian 40th and 92d Armored Brigades. These units will
.uove to positions closer to the Jordanian border as reserves
for the Syrian 5th and 9th Infantry Divisions-.
? 4. OTHER ARAB ACTIVITY
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a. **JORDAN (S/NFD/NDA/C)) At a briefing on armor tactics
given by the commander of the JA A 40th Armored Brigade, a Soviet
general commented that he could find no fault with Jordanian
tactics used in the recent fighting. The Jordanian commander
replied that perhaps the Soviets could have trained the Syrians
better.
'b.. at least 100
trucks r-. .., .1, II 1 1 gr the last
24 hours. These trucks are carrying equipment supposedly
destined for the units either in Syria' or for the battalions
that replaced the 20th Brigade in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia,
S. SOVIET ACTIVITY
a. (85) - GROUND' FORCEb
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'mil unusual activity by Soviet ground forces has been
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The force level in the soviet Mediterranean
Squadron has risen to an all-time high of 84 with the addition
of two minesweepers that. entered the Mediterranean from the
Black Sea. P.. ?
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