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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-161-6-35-8
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: November 15, 2010
• Sequence Number: 35
• Publication Date: April 11, 1976
• Content Type: CABLE

No Objection to Declassification in Part 2010/11/15: LOC-HAK-161-6-35-8
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-DISGUISED AS SAXQA FORCES, THE MOVEMENT
ACROSS T-~tE BORDER OF SYRIAN ARMOR WAS A DEVELOPMENT t~E'' Q.XFPERENT
MAGNITUDE,
3. HE SAID HE WOULD HAVE AGREED WATH YOUR A''-~ESSMENT THAT
SYRIAN. MOVEMENTS WERE DESIrNFQ TO EXERT P.0 II CAL PRESSURE UNTIL
LAST NIGHT, I,E., THE ENTRY OP THE? ARMORED URIGAOE. WHILE THEY
ARE PRESENTLY ONLY FIVE KILOMETERS INSIDE THE BORDER, THEY
MIGHT NEXT SAY IT IS NECESSARY TO MOVE ANOTHER FIVE' TO PRO>
TECT A C RTAIN" VILLAGE, THEN ANOTHER FIVE FOR ANOTHER OBJECTIVE,
UNTIL `{HE:Y END UP WITH A DEEP PENETRATION, HE SAID WHAT't4S"HAPPEN
IN THE .PAST 24 HOURS HAS NOT' DROUGHT HIM TO THE POINT OF PRO"
POSING A COU"5TER^INTERVEWT!ON, BUT IT -HAS MADE HIM THINK MORE CARET
FULLY ABOUT .THAT POSSIBILITY? HE FELT AS A RESULT OF " OVERNIGHT
DEVELOPMENT, WE W'F"RE NOW AT THE ""RF-D LINEI', HE SAID HE .25X1
WAS SPEAKING NOT ONLY AS ISRAELI FOREIGN MINISTER SUT AS SOME..
ONE WITH A KNOWLEE)rGE AND UNUERSTANAING OF THE MIDDLE EAST
AND THE ARABS WHEN HE SAID THAT THE PERTINENT FACTOR HAS bEEN THE,
CROSSP G OF THE BORDE=R WITH ARMORED UNITS, HE CONCLUDED BY
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MEETING AS PAkT OF OUR SERIES OF ONGOING EXCHANGES Or vAE>443-- UM
DEVELOPMENTS OF CONCERN TO BOTH COUNTRIES.
, ? AFTE'R THE MEETING, I AGREED WITH EVRON THAT IF ASKED BY THE
PRESS ABOUT THE MEETING, NE WOULD SAY THAT I MAO REQUESTED THE
NOT,.TO-.BE,REPROD'UCED WITHOUT THE AU'THORIZATION' OF THE EXECUTIVE SECRETARY
' No Objection to Declassification in Part 2010/11/15: LOC-HAK-161-6-35-8