ARAB -ISRAELI SITUATION REPORT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79T00826A002000010092-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 4, 2004
• Sequence Number: 92
• Publication Date: June 5, 1967
• Content Type: IM

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Directorate of Intelligence
5 June 1967
INTELLIGENCE MEMORANDUM
Arab-Israeli Situation Report
s of a.m. EDT
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2. Israel's Foreign Minister Abba Eban advised
the US Embassy in Tel Aviv that according to his
latest information the Egyptian ground aggression
occurred with the shelling of three Israeli settle-
ments near the Gaza strip.
3. General firing broke out in both sections of
Jerusalem this morning according to the AMCONSUL there.
Automatic and heavy weapons fire was heard. The Consul
also reports that UNTSO proposed a cease-fire in
Jerusalem which was to begin at 12:00 noon but as of
12:35 Jerusalem time firing was still going on.
4. Radio Jidda announced today that King Faysal
had ordered Saudi Arabian forces to join the battle
against Israel. It continued saying that he had sent
Saudi Arabian troops into the border region near the
Jordanian port of Aqaba.
State Department review completed.
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5. Radio Cairo said today that an American oil
tanker tried to slew sideways this morning to obstruct
navigation in the Suez Canal. The tanker was not
further identified. The broadcast continued saying
that "Israel had tried to attack a French tanker moving
through the canal, near Kabrit."
6. Damascus radio is quoted in Lebanon as urging
Arab workers to blow up western-owned oil pipelines in
Syria and "all over the Arab world." Cairo radio was
quoted in Beirut as urging workers to blow up "enemy"
installations in Arab states and strike at anyone
supporting Israel. They should blow up pipelines and
stop the oil flow "lest it should be changed into
bullets directed at your chests."
7. The UN Security Council will meet in emergency
session today to discuss the war in the Middle East.
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