BACKGROUND - - SUEZ DEVELOPMENTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79R00890A000700090014-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 10
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 13, 2000
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: September 19, 1956
• Content Type: BRIEF

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average of 3Y ships per day have moved through the canal This
compares with an average:,Mf 45 per day before nationalization
and an average of 40 per day thereafter
The resignations on 14 September _E-ft tit Egyptian (..Anal
au*h::)rlty with about 35 ~xperienct-d pil(.ts--some 30 `-5;)#:
el. So far, they have been successful.
gyptian authorit-.,-s ar(
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training. al
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to kebp canal operations a- about their pre-n; ~(,aiili
Since 14 September, when most nor:-Egyptian employees qu i t , at.
perienced Egyptian pilots on the rolls diT'r.:+si
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BACKGROUND--SUEZ :DEVELopm-i
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,gyptians originally contemplated' running ocly. one C0 voy
~.,A,t1 ons have :not shaken down to any, fixed pattern,
southbound one day, northbound,; th#rext However!
three convoys have peon pass) Ag .t1i ough the tea
Between 20 and 25 new foreign pilots have now arr.Y? ed'.ir
There arc- also 4 now Yugoslav-- and, t.w?-. new Dutf h ~ .lots:..
FIC
Some Poles and a few West ELr ;~.i a'l are be if F C t be
pilots (30 are known to have teen offered by Moscow,
' Egypt. The largest single group consists of 15 Soviet
on the wx.
Thus, the- ar,a1 should Lave . .F 90 p pots r?' ar l +, s?
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ows; US, UK & France (sponsors)
A?a 6tralia
D Ln,:a r k
thiopia
f aL
s*aly
Japan Portugal
Netherlands Spain
Now Zealand Sweden
Norway Thrkey
Pakistan West Germany
Elqm
i. The foilowing 10 countries. are believed to have accepted
tins
.'ations to a general
AfghaLi6taa
Czechoslovakia
East Germany
Hungary
India
conference (no date set).
Pakis- aL (tt.Fi only nati -r thi
Poland r planning t~ ar-t
Rumania Roth baonferen(e ;. )
Syria
USSR
the next few weeks. This is ` stikr shbt
4prior .to nationalization.
ountries are,attending the current Loa
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official list o~':es has been made public by the
Egyptians. Althoughpian press reports assert that
twenty countries have accepted, the Egyptian foreign ministry
states this number is exaggerated.
Egyptian Military Preparations. Additional Egyptian ground forces
have been withdrawn from the Sinai area, opposite Israel, and re-
deployed in the Canal Zone and thePNil, delta area. The with-
drawals are believed to have included most of Egyptrs armor.
/See Annex A for details/
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eta iiarseles on 11 Setamber Gabbard .,the ,diner Pa i F
are: other reports, however, that the Pasteur is actual:
i3 ading in North Africa. If these reports are cr::rect,
actual French concentration on Cyrrus to date if=
n. 4,300 and probably less.
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Rap' Mechanized Division (estimated reo
rborze" `D visi n (estim~ d strength
fro North Africa#'.
yet unonf irmsei)
General Gilles, former commander o the 25th A '- b :rne
Division reportedly arrived on 16 :>eptember tc, take
command of French forces on Cyprus.
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Ion, although the press reported,r
-o Artier
c'Omprises 3 light aircraft carriers,
1battleship`
""es at Yalta ~ on 5 September,`
~, ~, Coulon-bash
aircraft cruiser De Grasse which was transferred from Brest).
{including the Georges Leygues and the ultra-modern anti-
destroyers, 12 submarines and numerous.-escort, patrol. and
Air Forces. Some 1,300 air force ground personnel for five
mine craft.
fighter squadrons are reported on C,*i;rus
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