MILITARY ACTIVITY IN SYRIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84T00171R000100500001-6
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 25, 2012
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: June 3, 1983
• Content Type: MISC

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Attachment to N-10019/83
NPIC/IEG (6/83)
3 JUNE 1983
. SIGNIFICANCE: A HIGH LEVEL OF MILITARY ACTIVITY WAS OBSERVED IN
SYRIA
REMARKS: ONE ANTITANK BATTALION (BN) OF THE 65TH ANTITANK
HAD DEPARTED GARRISON AND THE REMAINING ANTITANK BN
WAS PREPARING TO DEPART THE GARRISON AT DAYR ALI ANTITANK
MILITARY CAMP (GRAPHIC 1). THESI7 BN WILL PROBABLY JOIN THE
ONE N I OF THE REGIMENT ALREADY IN LEBANON. (SECRET/NOFORN
UNITS FROM THE 1ST ARMORED DIVISION HAD RETURNED TO GARRISON
IN THE AL KISWAH AREA FROM THEIR DEPLOYMENT IN LEBANON
(GRAPHIC 1). THESE UNITS PROBABLY RETURNED TO SYRIA FOR
TRAINING.
A MAJOR FIELD TRAINING EXERCISE (FTX), UNDERWAY ON I,
WAS STILL IN PROGRESS AT KHALKHALAH-TALL ASFAR MTA. THIS
FTX INVOLVED ELEMENTS OF THREE DI VISIONS, THE 5TH AND 7TH
MECHANIZED INFANTRY DIVISIONS AND THE 9TH ARMORED DIVISION.
ELEMENTS OF THE 156TH FROG BRIGADE AND AN UNIDENTIFIED
HIND-D ATTACK HELICOPTER SQUADRON WERE ALSO INVOLVED IN THE
FTX. A TOTAL OF FOUR FROG-7 TRANSPORTER-ERECTOR-LAUNCHERS
(TWO OGRAPHIC 2) AND EIGHT HIND-D (NOT ON GRAPHIC)
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OBSERVED.
WERE
A PROBABLE FIELD-DEPLOYED SYRIAN HOSPITAL CONSISTING OF 11
USB-56 AND FIVE UST-56 TENTS HAD BEEN ESTABLISHED ON THE
WESTERN SIDE OF THE SABBURAH PLAIN AT 33-34-15N 036-04-45E
(GRAPHIC 3).
A SINGLE MAZ-537 TANK TRANSPORTER. WAS OBSERVED WITH EIGHT
T- 5 4 /5 5 TANKS AND THREE Z SU- 23 /4 SP AA GUNS AT QATANA
MILITARY CAMP (GRAPHIC 4). THIS WAS THE FIRST SIGHTING ON
OVERHEAD IMAGERY OF A MAZ-537 TANK TRANSPORTER IN SYRIA.
THIS FACILITY HAS BEEN ASSOCIATED WITH THE PALESTINE
LIBERATION ARMY.
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These notes have been prepared for briefing purposes only and should not be used for detailed analytical work
Their use should be restricted to the particular briefing board(s) they were prepared for and must be considered
valid only for the reporting period as indicated by the date of issue.
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3 JUNE 1983
IN ELECTRONIC WARFARE ACTIVITY, FOUR SELENIA PROBABLE
JAMMING VEHICLES, EACH ATTACHED TO A LARGE GENERATOR
TRAILER, WERE OBSERVED IN COLUMN FORMATION AT DAMASCUS SE
ELC VEH FAC 1 (GRAPHIC 5). ADDITIONALLY, AT DAMASCUS SW ELC
VEH FAC 2, ONE COMPANY OF NINE CATS EYE AND THREE R-405 HAD
DEPARTED GARRISON (GRAPHIC 1). THIS EQUIPMENT, WHICH MAY
HAVE DEPARTED AS EARLY AS 16 MAY, IS ESTIMATED TO PERFORM
COMMUNICATIONS JAMMING CONTROL FUNCTIONS.
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3.1 COORDINATES 33-12-OON 036-30-OOE (GRAPHIC 2) (s) 25X1
COORDINATES 33-16-40N 036-15-15E (GRAPHIC 1) (S)
BE NONE, COORDINATES 33-34-15N 036-04-45E (GRAPHIC 3) (S)
COORDINATES 33-27-30N 036-04-05E (GRAPHIC 4) (S) 25X1
COORDINATES 33-26-25N 036-21-40E (GRAPHIC S) (S)
COORDINATES 33-26-20N 036-15-20E (GRAPHIC 1) (S)
I DIA, DEFENSE ENCE ORDER OF BATTLE SYSTEM (DIOBS) ,
DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE GROUND ORDER OF BATTLE (DIAGOB) SYRIA (U),
MARCH 1983 (SWN/NOCONTRACT/NOFOR.N, THE EXTRACTED MATERIAL, UNIT
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These notes have been prepared for briefing purposes only and should not be used for detailed analytical work.
Their use should be restricted to the particular briefing board(s) they were prepared for and must be considered
valid only for the reporting period as indicated by the date of issue.
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