An Implied Soviet Threat Spurred U.S Forces' Alert

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84B00506R000100040073-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 28, 1998
• Sequence Number: 73
• Content Type: NSPR

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Implied Soviet Threat
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'Spurred U4 a 'arses' Alert
Mideast Cease-Fire Led to Test of Wills
Oct. 24-2$,. Washington Aides Say
Brezhnev Note on Acting Alone to Backl
WASHINGTON; ' Noon: 20--
~ e 'alert was putinto'effect
The Soviet note. that ledd..1,a a.
by;2:30 A.M?MOcta 25; officials
precautionary aferl'.of_ United
said,,: and formally authorized
States forces around.,the world
by President Nixon half 41lhour
on the. night of Oct. 24 "carried
later . ^~ " i.t
an implied threat, rather than
Only hours Before the arrival
an actual threat of the dispatch
of the Brezhnev note, the Nixon
of-, Soviet troops to th& Suez
Administration had ' ejeeted
war zone
two earlier plans firma joint
"We "strongly urge ghat. ''we
United States-Sovietexgedition-
both send forces tp enforce the
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ary force to enforce