STAFF NOTES: MIDDLE EAST AFRICA SOUTH ASIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP86T00608R000400030028-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 21, 2004
• Sequence Number: 28
• Publication Date: May 14, 1975
• Content Type: REPORT

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Hczidz3 info Leba~ion
Aggressive pa`crolling inta Lebanon by Israel.
Defense Forces units over the past three days
appears to be aimed as much at the Lebanese as at
the fedayeen.
Harassment of Israeli reconnaissance patrols
last week by mortar fire from L'ebanosc forces was
apparently the principal cause of the recent
Israeli activ;zs, ~vtiich included ra:lds into villages
and the taking of. prisoners. The approach of the
celebration on May 15 of Israel's independence day--
often the occasion for, fedayeen tQrrorist ixzci-
dents--was prop;ably another factor.
Al~hough Israeli reconnaissance units routinely
patrol inside the southern Lebanon border, Israeli
troops had not entered villages cr taken captives
since the major clashes with fedayeen and Lebanese
army units last January. On Monday, however,
Israeli troops raided a border. settlement inside
Lebano:z and reporf:edly blew up a cafe before
rc:y~irning with a number of Lebanese and Palestinian
prisoners. Searches of other border villages on
T.ues