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The Central Intelligence Agency issued this Central Intelligence Bulletin on 17 February 1960. The daily brief was distributed to the President and senior officials, and it covers world political and military developments. Items include Khrushchev's formula for two separate German peace treaties, a Communist attack on a Nationalist air patrol over the Taiwan Strait, and Israel's boycott of a UN armistice meeting. It also covers anxiety over Belgian Congo independence, an Iraqi cabinet shake-up, Cuban-Soviet ties and a Soviet nuclear test detection proposal. It contains no UFO material.
Approved for Release: 2020/03/13 C03173539 *6 ‘ ‘ad’ I I. ASIA- AFRICA Israeli-Syrian Border Dispute May Go to UN Security Council Israel's boycott of the meeting on 16 February of the Is- raeli-Syrian Mixed Armistice Commission (MAC) topconsider recent fighting in the demilitarized zone along the Israeli- Syrian border m__ay lead to UN Security Council consideration of the dispute. Secretary General Hammarskjold has ex- pressed readiness, if necessary, to call a C0l.1I‘lCI1 meeting on his own authority. Prior to such a meeting, however, there probably would be a "reaffirmation" of the UN position ‘regarding the status of the demilitarized zone, perhaps in the form of a stern letter from Hammarskjold to Israel and the UAl=_i_.j ' The Israeli claim to sovereignty over the demilitarized zone has become a central issue in the dispute and was the reason for Israel's refusal to attend the MAC meeting. The Israelis deny that the MAC has any authority to discuss an issue involving Israeli sovereignty. The UN and the UAR, as ‘well as the US Government, hold that the 1949 General Armistice Agreement between Israel and Syria left the sta- tus of the zone in abeyance pending a final Arab-Israeli set- tlement. Israel has offered to meet separately with the Arab in- habitants of Tawafiq, the focal point of recent fighting with- in the zone, to discuss measures to enable them to cultivate the land they claim. The Israelis also have said they are ' willing to meet the Syrians "anytime and anywhere" to dis- cuss peace and means of preserving order along their com- mon border, while insisting that there be no discussion of the demilitarized zone. A clash on 12 February in the central sector of the de- militarized zone, 25 miles north of Tawafiq, has again 17 Feb‘60 CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN Page 4 Approved for Release: 2020/03/13 C03173539
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 14 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.