MIDDLE EAST AFRICA SOUTH ASIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79T00865A001900140001-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 31, 2001
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: October 7, 1975
• Content Type: NOTES

1/.
Approved For Release 2001/08/08 : CIA-RDP79T00865A001900141W--Secret
5~1 T T LINI~J' a ~ E
Middle East
Africa
South Asia
Top Secret
SC'No. 08362/75
October 7, 1975
Approved For Release 2001/08/08 : CIA-RDP79T00865A001900140004 4 6
 Approved For Release 2001/08/08 : CIA-RDP79T00865AO01900140001-7
Not ReZeasabZe To Foreign Nationals
Dissemination and Extraction of Information Controlled by originator
Not ReZeasabZe To Contractors/Contractor Consultants
Warning Notice
Sensitive Intelligence Sources and Methods Involved
(WNINTEL)
NATIONAL SECURITY INFORMATION
Unauthorized Disclosure Subject to Criminal Sanctions
Classified by 010725
Exempt from general declassification schedule
of E.O. 11652, exemption category:
?5B(1), (2), and (3)
Automatically declassified on:
Date Impossible to Determine
DISSEMINATION CONTROL ABBREVIATIONS
NOFORN- Not Releasable to Foreign Nationals
NOCONTRACT- Not Releasable to Contractors or
Contractor/Consultants
PROPIN- Caution-Proprietary Information Involved
USIBONLY- USIB Departments Only
ORCON- Dissemination and Extraction of Information
Controlled by Originator
REL... - This Information has been Authorized for
Release to ...
Approved For Release 2001/08/08 : CIA-RDP79T00865AO01900140001-7
 Approved For Releqft&0y.ff-hThQ9k65A001900140001-7
MIDDLE EAST - AFRICA - SOUTH ASIA
This publication is prepared for regional specialists in the Washington com-
munity by the Middle East - Africa Division, Office of Current Intelligence,
with occasional contributions from other offices within the Directorate of
Intelligence. Comments and queries are welcome. They should be directed to
the authors of the individual articles.
South Yemen: Assassination Attempt . . . . . . 3
Oct 7, 1975
Approved For Relee tQ1 / R NIn5A001900140001-7
 25X1D Approved For Release 2001/08/08 : CIA-RDP79T00865AO01900140001-7
Next 1 Page(s) In Document Exempt
Approved For Release 2001/08/08 : CIA-RDP79T00865AO01900140001-7
 Approved For Release/%8 ffj D f7ff 6
,kA001900140001-7
South Yemen
Assassination Attempt
South Yemen was probably behind the unsuccess-
ful attempt to assassinate Muhammad Ali Haytham,
former Adeni prime minister, in Cairo on Sunday
night. Egyptian authorities have arrested two men
for the shooting.
Haytham was an early member of South Yemen's
ruling National Front party and its general command.
Appointed prime minister in June 1969, he left office
in mid-1971 after clashing with President Salim
Rubayi Ali over Ali's sponsorship of "peasant up-
risings" in which landless laborers seized land,
boat crews seized fishing craft and houses were
confiscated by poor peasants. Haytham was packed
off to Moscow from August 1971 until August 1973,
where he reportedly attended a Communist Party
school. Refusing to return to Aden, he was given
political asylum in Cairo.
created an exile organization called e emen unity
front, (YUF) which he hoped would take over various
exile paramilitary organizations in
Saudi Arabia and North Yemen. Haytham has talked
of launching a political and military effort against
Aden to oust Ali and National Front Secretary Gen-
eral Abd-al-Fattah Ismail. In May, Haytham visited
Oman where he reportedly obtained Sultan Qabus
promise of political and financial support for a
YUF-led exile army.
Aden has in the past employed terrorist teams
to carry out several political murders. In May 1973,
Muhammad Ali Uthman, a member of North Yemen's
Republican Council and strong opponent of Aden's
National Front regime was assassinated in Taiz.
Former North Yemeni foreign minister Muhammad Ahmad
Numan was assassinated in Beirut in June 1974.
(Continued)
Oct 7, 1975 3
Approved For Release 2f?jV8/8ty2FP001900140001-7
 Approved For Release JJ0$~f I/ F~D 7 R -001900140001-7
Haytham may have been a South Yemeni target
because of his YUF activities. One condition the
Saudis reportedly have insisted on in their talks
with South Yemeni officials to resolve political
differences is South Yemen's agreement to allow
exiles, like Haytham, to return to Aden and partici-
pate in politics. South Yemeni President Ali and
party leader Ismail may have believed that Haytham
has a following in the National Front and could
pose a danger to their own position. (SECRET
NOFORN/ORCON/NOCONTRACT)
Oct 7, 1975 4
Approved For Releaserf91i01g RII DFC R*001900140001-7
 Approved For Release 2001/08/08 : CIA-RDP79T00865AO01900140001-7
Top Secret
Top Secret
Approved For Release 2001/08/08 : CIA-RDP79T00865AO01900140001-7