USSR-LEBANON CRISIS: LITTLE REACTION SO FAR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84B00049R000601490078-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 11, 2007
• Sequence Number: 78
• Publication Date: June 7, 1982
• Content Type: MISC

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MORNING BRIEFING
7 June 1982
USSR-Lebanon Crisis: Little Reaction Sp Far
Soviet military reaction to the Lebanon
extreme Yy limited so far-
crisis has been
Of eight Soviet combatants currently in
Mediterranean, five are in the eastern'Med, but none
appear?to be reacting to the crisis. A minesweeper
yestefcay began surveillance of the USS Kennedy; the
latter!is in the eastern Ned and was scheduled to call
at Hai:Pa.
Soviet medje reaction to the Israeli incursion has not gone
beyond initial commentary on Sunday which condemned the US and
lerae;, The S0Yiets--predictably--al so renewed calls for an
International cnfercnce on the Middle East to replace the Camp
David process. Soviet Ambassador to Lebanon Soldatov met with
'Lebanese; President Sarkis yesterday and told reporters that the
USSR will take BIZ mPa.Rures aval.l1hlc to "dexeoutice" Israel. C
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