JOINT SOVIET-AMERICAN RECONNAISSANCE TO MONITOR MIDDLE EAST CEASE-FIRE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01495R001200080020-2
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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 3, 2005
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: October 23, 1973
• Content Type: MEMO

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SUBJECT: Joint Soviet-American Reconnaissance to
Monitor Middle East Cease-Fire
1.. This memorandum outlines considerations involved and steps
that would be required to implement a proposal to monitor a Middle East
cease-fire arrangement by means of internationally sponsored joint
Soviet-American reconnaissance of the affected areas. The discussion
below focuses only on technical-operational elements of such an arrange-
ment; it does not evaluate political feasibility or related factors.
2. The example, below, is presented as a point of departure to
.illustrate the range of factors involved in a joint reconnaissance arrangement.
The example is based on the premise of a program having broad international
involvement under UN auspices. There are alternative and intermediate
arrangements which could also be presented. For illustrative purposes,
the following assumptions were used:
a. The US and the USSR would announce
their joint intention to perform photo reconnaissance
of the Middle East cease-fire areas under UN auspices;
b. The "fact of" such reconnaissance and
the products and information derived therefrom would
be made available on an unrestricted basis to all relevant
parties, including the belligerents;
C. An agreement would exist, containing
explicit provisions to be monitored.
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