SYRIAN ARMY MOVEMENTS AND CASUALTIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R001700230003-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 3, 2000
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: July 19, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO.
INFORMATION REPORT
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1a The oni-v aig icant recent movement on the part of the Syrian Army
was the dispatch of the Sixth Infantry Battalion to Mishmar Haag Yaardenp
Palestine,
A new unit, named "Selahadin Ayyubi Battalion", is being organized in
Damascus, and is to be made up of Palestinian refugeeee
3.
The following confidential official figures of Syrian Ax'm7 casualties
was obtained through contacts at the military hoapitalt
a@ Before the Palestinian truce period there were 133 soldiera
killed and 451 grounded;
b m After the truce there have been 99 killed and 137 wounded,
Sixty percent of these casualties resulted from mine field
explosions and the rest resuult,d from mortar fire,
This document is 3G,s~9h' v rc-~ . h'ed
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Archivist of the United Siutes.
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