Documents / FOIA release
This is the Central Intelligence Agency's Current Intelligence Weekly Summary of 23 March 1962, a secret digest from the Office of Current Intelligence covering world events. It reviews Soviet foreign policy on Berlin, the Berlin air corridors, disarmament and a nuclear test ban. It also covers Algeria, Argentina's elections, the Congo, Laos, South Vietnam, Guatemala, food rationing in Cuba and Middle East tensions. Special articles assess Brazil under Goulart and Turkey's economic prospects. It contains no UFO material.
“The Times”16 pages
Approved for Release: 2026/03/06 C03176167 CURRENT INTELLIGENCE WEEKLY SUMMARY MIDDLE EAST HIGHLIGHTS‘ Israeli-Syrian Hostilities The heaviest fighting along the Israeli-Syrian border in two years broke out on the " night of 16-l7 March when Israel launched a "reprisal" raid along the eastern shore of Lake Ti- berias in the area from which the Syrians had fired on Israeli fishing craft and patrol boats on 8, 15, and 16 March. The Israelis attacked two villages --Al-Nuqayb, in the demilita- rized zone, and.Al-Kursi--and ‘ claim they killed 30 Syrians at a cost of only five Israeli dead; the raid was followed n by an artillery duel and Israeli air attacks; The UN Mixed ‘ Armistice Commission negotiated a cease-fire after seven hours of fighting. There continue to be sporadic exchanges of fire, however. On 20 March the Syrians on two separate oc- casions again fired on Israeli patrol boats that approached Tiberias' eastern shore, main- taining that the patrol boats opened fire first. On 21 March,Foreign Minister Meir said Israel's cabinet had de- cided that, to permit a relaxa- tion of tension, patrol boats would be kept off the lake during the next few days and Israel would not "at this time" initiate further retaliatory action. Later that day an air battle took place in which the Syrians claim to have shot down an Israeli Super-Mystere jet and the Israelis charge that the Syrians fired on two villages north of Lake Tiberias. r It accordingly seems likely that additional and possibly more serious hostilities will occur. The Syrian regime evidently initiated the incidents, probably hoping that it could divert both ISRAELI -SYRIAN r / BORDER AREA // fQ Site of Israeli reprisal raids /// ~ ~ Canal or conduit, ,1“ P proposed or under construction .- , r/ I sban, FK L! " 5 I ~~»~;:;*:dNr la 5 \\\\\\\ Demilitarized Zone / /V . . 9 / ////////7/,'r'>//M I “ °“ 00$ Ll 5 A N o N Q '\\\\\\\ , r4,/r /. ,, rk \\\\‘ \\Y\\\\ it‘ A-£—m1> ,/ am \ , _ \ enz/>7 STRIP / NEGEV 1 // DESERT /7 0 snrurs m|_:s 30 r i ,5‘ ) 32326 gem? 23 Mar 52 WEEKLY REVIEW Page 16 of 22 Approved for Release: 2026/03/06 C03176167
Not linked to a story yet.
FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 42 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.