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• Document Type: CREST
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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-01634R000100030010-7
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• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 11, 1998
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C U R R E N T INTELLIGENCE D
C&ff m pcklf er Release 2000/05/05: CIA-RDP78-01634R000100030010-7
OCI no. 6653/55
4 Oct 55
Egyptian arms mission negotiating in India: A four-man
Egyptian arms mission is in India negotiating or the pur-
chase of Indian military equipment, including small arms,
engineering and signal materiel, according to a usually
reliable source. The Egyptians are reported dissatisfied,
however, with the terms offered by New Delhi, claiming
that2t txeame items are available at lower cost in Europe.
comments _.
that India seeks to keep its ordnance factories going in
the interqAAiX self-sufficiency and has instructed its
military attaches abroad to act as salesmen for surplus
Indian equipment. doubts, however, that India'
would of na e t since it has a great need
for this : e .
Comment: Before the conclusion of its arms deal with
the Soviet bloc, Egypt sought to tap all possible sources
of arms supplies.* Since then, however, Egyptian arms mis-
sions probably have become reluctant to buy except on terms
as good as those offered by the bloc, and this particular.
opportunity to establish the closer Egyptian-Indian rela-
tions sought by New Delhi may thus have vanished.
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