CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 20, 2004
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: September 30, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
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Office of Current Intelligence
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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2. EGYPT REPORTED PROMOTING SYRIAN AND
LEBANESE PURCHASES OF SOVIET ARMS (page 4).
4. BONN'S DEFENSE BUDGET INDICATES REARMAMENT
SLOWER THAN PLANNED (page 6).
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2. EGYPT REPORTED PROMOTING SYRIAN AND
LEBANESE PURCHASES OF SOVIET ARMS
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The Egyptian military attache
in Damascus has recently ap-
proached military officials in
Syria and Lebanon regarding
the purchase of arms from the
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Comment
Egypt's interest in obtaining
military equipment for Syria
and Lebanon would be in line with its desire to main-
tain its leadership in the Arab world..
Press reports indicate that an
Egyptian delegation is to spend three days in Syria
on its way to Prague to discuss arms for Egypt.
One of the delegates mentioned has headed economic
missions to Eastern Europe and Moscow.
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4., BONN'S DEFENSE BUDGET INDICATES REARMAMENT
SLOWER THAN PLANNED
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Despite Chancellor Adenauer's recent
public statement in support of rapid
rearmament, the position of his gov-
ernment on defense expenditures makes
it ppear that the prospective build-up will be slow, ac-
cording to Ambassador Conant. On 28 September the
Bonn Foreign Ministry notified the American embassy
that the government intends to spend approximately 2. 3
billion dollars annually on the new army and that this
sum will probably not be increased until after the 1957
federal elections.
Conant observes that such a program
would leave a large gap between Bonn's total defense bill
and the outlays necessary for the planned three-year build?
up.
Comment Discussions on the rate and magni-
tude of German rearmament are now
being held in Bonn and in Paris in connection with the
NATO annual review. Bonn's Defense Ministry, with
Adenauer's ostensible support, strongly advocates a
three-year build-up. The chancellor, however, has
not opposed the actions of the Finance Ministry, which
is intent on stretching out the build-up period to five or
six years so as to keep defense expenditures low.
Bonn's contemplated expenditures are
less proportionately than the defense expenditures of other
major NATO countries.
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