MIDDLE EAST SITUATION REPORT NUMBER 74 (AS OF 0630 EDT)

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• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: October 4, 2011
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• Publication Date: October 24, 1973
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
2t to-h er 1973
INTELLIGENCE MEMO1 3DUM
MIDDLE EAST
Si'tuation? Report -Number 74.
(as of, 0630 EDT)
THE. MILITARY..SITUATION
1. Both Israel and Egypt agreed to a second
cease--fire Lo. take effect at 01.00 EDT this morning.
The second cease-fire proposal Y+ad been adopted Tues-
day' evening bar tbd UN Security. Council. Syria also
announced 'latia last night; 't'hat' it accepi:.ed the ? UN
.cease-fir e, resolution. Egypt and* Syria Conditioned
their acceptance : upon complete: Israeli withdrawal from
all occs pied Arab territories.. .
2. . The Israeli Chief of 'Staff instructed all
Israeli forces along the Suez Canal ..to ohserve the .25X1
cease-fire ?as . of the 0100 deadline stir estcd by Is-
raeli_ Oef6hse Minister. Dayan.
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3. ' Following the ' cease-fire, air `activity in
Syria and-along the Suez Canal included defensive
pAtro1.ling, reconrialssance flights, and po ,sibly some
Israeli air. support .-for its around units on the west'
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bank. Licjht groulad sl .irmishi ng had ,continued also
along the east bank. Of the canal and near Suez City on .
the west bank where an Egyptian naval facility At Adabiya
was under attack by an Israeli armored unit.
4. Tel Aviv has admitted that the Egyptians Con-
trol.. areas. along the east bank of the canal. to a
depth of up to six miles.. In the north Uie : 'Egyptians
hold a sector. extending from, a point., east of Ismailia
north to the. ma.r, sh. region southeast :of Port Said. -
The-southern sector-.extends from ' a point east of the south-
ern tip of, the Great Bitter Lake south'to Port T'awfiq, .
opposite-Suez City on the Gulf of Suez. The Egyptians
had not been able to. expand ? their fn'o-(ho3,d in the Sinai?
since Monday.
5.. On the vest bank the Israelis claim control
of a broad area from a point about .20 miles west of Is-
mailia; south to near.:Jaiiai al Jufrah, and roughly -
south-bast to' the outskirts .o.f Suez City. Israeli advances on
the.west bank ;since Monday. have been mainly confined to
"the `SU-sz `City ,.area where they. claim .to have isolated the
southern concentration of Egyptian 'forces ?on the east
bank.
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 day for Middle Fast destina.tL011s.,
SOVIET, SF.LIFT
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SYRIAN FRONT
7. The Israelis claim, control Of all territory
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from they suirurit of Mount Hermon. southea t throuyhh Sas&.
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and ex ttmdiny to a point east' of 'Tell Aaxntar,, and then west
to the 1967 aease-Mire line.. There is no evidence that any
Syrian forces rexnai.n intact within this area and .ire .still
offering resistance. There had bean no significant ad-.
vances by either side since Monday's short-lived cease-
fire.
8. Last night, Israeli Saar--class missile 'boats
participated in, the shelling og the ports of &ani,yas
and Latakia.. Srn&11 fedayeen units were active* near the
Golan Heights. No major ground force activity was noted
.on either sire. Ai.r activity Was limited to defensive
patrols' and reconnaissance
SOVIET. AIRLIFT
9. Soviet transport ? f.liyht activity to the middle
East on 23 October ' drOppecl to its l awes t level. since the
military airlift began two weeks-?.; acgc.: Only 20 aircraft
...arrived, down f, orn 55 the previous day. Of 14 AN-12 ar-
rivals, eight wurit, to Syria, three to Iraq , two to Egypt.,
'and bne to an undisclosed locattion. - Five of six AN-22
arrivals landed! in '.Cairo.' 'The:-c:. aircraft carried 440 tons
of military cargo, - about: one-h'Yalf of the total delivered
it each of the three previous days'.
10. A of 0 morning, no Soviet transport
aircraft have been n ruto to or scheduled for
the Middle East.. The a seznoe. of, fiiyht activity thus
far today, while unusual, does not preciudo.the possibility
that sizable number of aircraft . will, icave . later in the
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AT THE UNITED NATIONS
.12. The: UN Security' Council resolution approved
last. night, again,'co-sponsored by the US and the Soviet
Union,
-reaffirmq -Mondaiy's call'for a ona3c-fire and
urges, all. parties-to return to the positions they occupied r
at the time the truce: became of tectiva (1: 00, PR EDT Octo-
ber 22'.
--requests that the Secretary-General dispatch UN
observers to. supervise the cease--fire. along the Egyptian
front.. +~ V
12. This first effort.o?f flee' Council to enforce its
much-violated cease-fire should.bring UN Observers quickly
into place*- It avoids , howevor. ; the difficult problem of
? where the cease-fire line should be drawn. and also failed
to' address the ?quostions oi: h1aw:to initiate peace negotia-
tions or how to implement the arrsbiguou Resolution 242.
While there is coratinuiny risentrnc-.nt of US-Soviet dominance,
Council rlemhers seers to be awaiting initiatives froth Wash-
ing-tun and. Moscovr :on these issues also.
13.. Three observes: teams were lacing sent immediately
to the west bank of the Suez Carial; Fgypt has approved
their deployment. Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan is
scheduled to meet today with a. US repr.cscentative to discuss
placement of observers along the east bank, Some UN ob-
server teams have :retnai,ted ? on the Syrian front throughout
the war. The Council will, eve ntua lly have to consider, how-
ever, the haed. f6r additional observers in both areas.
opposition, the meeting was nt .r cad by stormy debate. China,
which again rerusod to participate, in the vote, vehemently
Objected to superpowers' use of ,the Security Council as a
rubber stamp. ;A heated exchange :between Chinese and Soviet
Ambassadors on this point forces the president to adjourn
the session for a quarter of an hour. while. non-aligned
?14. Although the resolUtiorr was approved without
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states ; lso deploXcd the lack of tin le for. consultations,
there we=re no efforts to' oppose., the resolution or ? offer
alterriati.ves. ; .
15. Israel: accused Fgypt of continuing attacks in
violation of the ce+aso-fire. Ambassador Tekoah stated
that. xsrae'l..wouid. stop fighting as soon as Egypt stops and
reiterated th requirement .that.' all. prisoners of war bG
returned.,
'16yptian Foreign L~Uinister Zayya ? emphasized
the Z rab~ demand that all occupied territories be returned,
indicating that Cairo now consiao s this a responsibility
of .thr su~7ar~cwcr.
1;:~`;T TA'L PNT aQdINST US IN ;JORDWITAN QF?'ICC:R CORPS
3.7 .. ,I I resentment:
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is growing --ire ;the',Jordanian P.rmy over the US resupply .
effort to Isre~ .; The resentment rc:porterdly has been in-
m~-nt from the
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A' Ktai3 VIEW OF TILE- s TUIVrIo1`S
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CHINA
? 20. The Chinusc pros, in its first direct comment
an the US-Sovi.eL resolution calling-for a Middle East cease-
fire, accused Washingtr~n ari * d..Moscow of trying to "put
out:. the blazing fi e of this just war.." The Chinese 'charac-
terized calls or an in-place cease-'f'ire as an effort by
the 'US and tho US R to maintain. the 'stalemate- for their own
.selfish ends. The comanentary by the' Ncw China Newa Agency
fol lowed ._closely the arguments put- forward by. China's UN
..ralr:esentati-vas who ? dea.lined? to support the Security Coun--
C?il resolution
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