CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 8, 2010
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: January 25, 1956
• Content Type: REPORT

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3. IRAQI PREMIER REQUESTS US SUPPORT AGAINST
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THE ARAB-ISRAELI SITUATION
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3. IRAQI PREMIER REQUESTS US SUPPORT AGAINST
SAUDI SUBVERSION
he hoped the United States would find
some way to cut off the flow of Saudi
money to agitators and intriguers.
plea for American support, stating that
Iraqi premier Nuri Said has expressed
to the American embassy his serious
concern over Egyptian-Saudi subversive
activities in Iraq and has made a strong
Nuri and other Iraqi officials said that
they had discovered an Egyptian attempt
to subvert the Iraqi army, and that Egypt
and Saudi Arabia were maintaining close
contacts with anti-Nuri elements. The officials added that
Egypt is involved in smuggling bombs and ex losives into
Iraq
The Iraqi government has made several
arrests and is carefully checking Egyptian and Saudi diplo-
matic missions and their nationals employed in the Iraqi
government who are reported involved in espionage activi-
ties.
Comment
The Iraqis, who have previously reported
Egyptian and Saudi intrigue, recently de-
manded the recall of the Egyptian army attach? They may
be preparing for some kind of a showdown, possibly the sev-
ering of relations with Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
Egypt and Saudi Arabia strongly oppose
the Baghdad pact and Iraqi attempts to gain more adherents.
They are probably trying to incite disturbances and discon-
tent in order to bring about the eventual downfall of Nuri,
who was primarily responsible for Iraq's adherence to the
pact.
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THE ARAB-ISRAELI SITUATION
(Information as of 1700, 24 January)
gun on the frontier.
which would be the first time the Israelis have used this size
An Israeli spokesman told the American
army attache in Tel Aviv that Israel fired with'theavy artillery"
on Egyptian positions in the El Auja demilitarized zone on 21
January after 45 minutes of Egyptian mortar fire. The attache
commented that this was probably 155mm howitzer equipment,
The Jordan government has charged that an
men.
of the Dead Sea and exchanged fire with Jordanian national guards-
Israeli patrol penetrated six miles into Jordan territory south
Damascus Chief of Staff Shuqayr, com-
menting to the American army attache on Israeli press reports
that the Syrians were purchasing arms from the Czechs, said
that a Syrian mission is in Prague to expedite shipment of spar
parts for tanks. Shuqayr said Syria could get T- 34 tanks with a
five-year supply of spare parts if it wanted them but had taken
no action yet as "some still oppose a deal with the Soviets.,, He
also said Egypt would furnish Syria with some antiaircraft equip-
ment in the near future but that he did not know whether it would
be British equipment or Soviet (Czech) 85mm caliber. He added
that the Israeli source of reports that Syria was dealing with the
Czechs was an Israeli army purchasing mission in Prague.
Shugayr's remarks regarding Syrian dealings with the Czechs
are the first such admission to American officials.
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