MIDDLE EAST SITUATION REPORT NUMBER 94 (AS OF 1530 EST)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-544-1-17-8
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 10
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: August 16, 2010
• Sequence Number: 17
• Publication Date: October 30, 1973
• Content Type: MEMO

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
30 octobor 1,973
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INT LLIGENCE ".MMAORANDUM
AXDrJtj., EAST
Situation Report Number 94
(As of 1530 EST)
THE AiLI 'ARY ? SITUATIQN
State Dept Review
Completed
GENERAL
(Al. .times cited in military ?para raph , are
Cairn; Tel Aviv t.iyne, unless othrrwtise specified. ).
l Both front rained generally calm today,
although there were several incidents on thc> Egyptian
front'. Barly * this afternoon, at Incest two Egyptian SAMs
were' fined at an -Israeli. fighter some oightt mikes. ,
northeast of Ismailia, but the aircraft was not hit.
During m.d--afternoon, an Egyptian commander threatened
to attack an; Israeli force which he claimed had moved
into hew positions in an area 's'oma 12 miles west of
the Great Bitter .Lake during the night. A LIN patrol
on the seene:ha . not yet reported ;tny lighting. Israeli
artillery opened -wir*e at a "-slow rate" against Egypti:* an
forces which had :moved unto a bridge across the Sweet-
water. Canal some Lwo miles north, of Suez City. A UN
patrol reported this of ter.noon that the Israolis had
warned t3io E4.yptian.s? to vacate the bridge before the
firing b gan;
:M.? During a r1la 1.ng with 'the canunander of the UN
observer* force early -this morning, General Dayan
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posi?tivns cacc:upie~?.z~ 22 October at the time cif the
fir t c~*asc*-fire. Dayan said, howc~Ve;r, that his nec rxtive
response was unofficial and that a formal -reply could
refuis~c~ a rc .most that Israeli forces return to their
be expeCtcd -later today.
Kt7ZNETSOV IN CAIRO
.3 The Egyptian news agency announodd today that.
Soviet: 'Fir; .1- D4puty Foreign Minister Kuzn.et:sov arrived.
today in Cairo for talks about the Middle East situation..
Kuzhet:.sov presumably was aboard the IL-18 that landed
in. Cairn at 0531 EST. Kuznetsov, is second in connmand
to Gromyko :.in the Foreign, Ministry and has been Used
befbxe.: by Moscow in a troubleshooting roe.
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TTS differences with Western iisrope over Middle
Western Europe and Izvestiya carried an item, based on a
as p
. problems appeared in the' Soviet press again today..'ASS
replayed official statements from West. European, capitals
E t c~Z ay and critical reporting on LAS domestic
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Us article, on bribery as a. -way of life in US polit{ c
quoted as saying that US support for Israel's "expan-
v ew with. a Lebanese reporter in whichrulbright is.
.Pravda printed an account of Senator Fulhright's inter-
ported in 'the Soviet media. The delivery of supplies by
the relief convoy to the'Egyptian Third Army also -was noted,
and Is.ra ii .officers to discuss. the cease-fire"were ' re
their positions on the front, and the meeting of Egyptian
optimistic this morning. The cease-fire was reported as
10. Soviet press accounts of the war were cautiously
sionist? policy is not in US interests.
world, who think that cease-fire means the and of war are
yet to come, although Israel will start the ne.