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This Central Intelligence Agency conference report, numbered RTT 95-10039 and dated October 1995, presents the proceedings of a conference held 30 September to 1 October 1993. The CIA's Geographic Resources Division sponsored the conference. In it, academic geographers, anthropologists and US Government officials examined ethnic conflict by region, covering Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, Asia and South Asia. The report also discusses what these conflicts mean for US policy. It does not deal with UFOs or unidentified aerial phenomena.
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Approved for Release: 2018/06/01 C00123268 References The primary source of infonnation on all aspects of the geography of the Middle East is the TubingerAtlas des Vorderen Orients (Wiesbaden, 1968-1993). The several hundred sheets of this serial publication and its many supplementary monographs include a wealth of information on most of the linguistic and religious groups in the region. V The coverage of the Middle East in Atlas Narodov Mira (Moscow, 1964) was remarkably explicit at that time and is still useful as a source of information on the location of linguistically defined groups. The Middle East Journal and Asian Bulletin are good sources for infonnation on recent events. A convenient list of useful literature on the human and physical geography of the region appears in the section devoted to Southwest Asia and North Africa in A Geographical Bibliography for American Libraries (Washington, DC: Association of American Geographers, 1985). The London-based Minority Rights Group has issued several reports on Middle Eastern topics. No one vol- ume deals adequately with ethnicity and nationality in the Middle East. However, Carleton Coon’s Caravan: The Story of the Middle East (New York, 1951) is still useful and stimulating in spite of its early postcolonial date. 105 Approved for Release: 2018/06/01 C00123268
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 205 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.