MIDDLE EAST SITUATION REPORT NUMBER 82 (AS OF 0630 EDT)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-544-1-1-5
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: August 16, 2010
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: October 26, 1973
• Content Type: MEMO

No Objection to Declassification in Part 2010/08/16: LOC-HAK-544-1-1-5
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
26 October 1973,
INTELLIGENCE MEMORANDUM
:MIDDLE FAST
.Situation Report l'iumber ? 82
(As of 0630 EDT):
THE MILITARY SITUATION
GENERAL
.(All times cited in military paragraphs are
Cairo/Tel Aviv time, unless otherwise specified.)
1. Fi4ht&ng began before dawn near Suez City at
the -srur.:he-:n -errd of.-the -oanal. `The i-sraelis -claimed that
the Egyptian forces,- on the east bank began the firing;
subsetu'izrly air attacks vrere dhtect~r3 on the ~avr~tian
sitions.
2.' - Israeli spvkesrnen also claimed. that the Egyp-
tians damaged the tanker Serius (Siris) Hoar the. entrance
to the Gulf of Suez. and it was in. danger of sinking. 25X1
3. Except .fori one 3.sx?aeli helicopter reported to
have been destroyed1 by fedayeen forces in Lebanon, no ac-
tivity was reported along the Syrian front over the night.
No Objection to Declassification in Part 2010/08/16: LOC-HAK-544-1-1-5
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