MIDDLE EAST

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82R00025R000100060008-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 30, 2005
• Sequence Number: 8
• Content Type: NOTES

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DIRECTOR 8LLEE, OF THE HUSH-HUSH CENTRAL INTELLIG NCE
AGENCY TOLD SENATORS TODAY THAT THE MIDDLE EAST SITUATION IS "THE
MOST DANGEROUS THING CONFRCNTINNG US IN THE WQRLD TODAY."
THAT VERSION OF DULLE$, PEI"ARKS WAS RELAYED BY CHAIRMAN J. WILLIA
FULERIGHT AFTER A TWO-HOURS CLOSED DOOR MEETING OF DULLES WITH THE
SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE'S
"I AGREE WITH HIN," FULERI CHT SAID.
DULLES A BROTHER OF AILING SECRETARY OF STATE. JOHN FOSTER DULL: S,
BRIEFED THE, COMMITTEE MAINLY THE IRAQ ND T B T CRIS IS.
FULBI IGHT DESCRI ED HII~M AS "NOT VERY OPTIMISTIC" ABOUT TH ABILITY
OF THE TIBETAN TRIBESMEN TO HOLD OUT AGAINST THE. COMMUNIST CHINES:
ARI'IED FORCES WHO FORCED THE DALAI LAMA TO FLEE THE COUNTRY.
THE ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT SAID DULLS GAVE T} COMMITTEE THE IMPRESSION
THAT IRAQ IS "NIGHTLY CLOSI" C0- COMPLETE DOIM INATION BY COMMUNISM AND
"JUST ABOUT AT THE POINT OF NO RETURN."
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FULDRIGH T SAID HE HAD NOT GI N UP HOPE THAT A COMPLETE
COMMUNIST TAKEOVER COULD PE AVOIDED ALTHOUGH THE SITUATION 'N!AS "VERY
SERIOUS."
IRAN IS "VZRY NERVOUS," FiTh
'RIGHT REPOR77D.
"IT STILL MAY NOT PE HOPELESS IF THE FREE WORLD CAN DEVISE A
POLICY FOR THE' ENTIRrw GIODLE AST) AREA," FULBRIGHT SAID.
FULPPIGHT SAID HE FELT TF PART OF THE TROUBLE IN THE AREA IS
CTIVITIZS HAVE' '..~. ~1.^,=aPER7D BY A LACK OF POSITIVE 'POLICY
THAT "OUR A
BY THE FR E NATIOT S" FOR TI:. AR w7^ AS A WHOLE.
ALSO, HE SAID, THE vJEST IS . SURE HO FAIR THE R AK BE BETWEEN
MOSCOW AND EGYPT'S PRE. M I-4;1, Gi HAL ADDEL ' NASSER IS GONE AND "HOOT MUCH
WE CAN RELY ON NASSER."
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