A new CIA history of the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, with a couple of errors

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A new CIA history of the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, with a couple of errors

An Intelligence History of the 1973 Arab-Israeli War February 5th, 2013 by Steven Aftergood The Central Intelligence Agency has published a series of essays on intelligence and the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, to coincide with a symposium on the subject held last week at the Nixon Presidential Library. The publication itself (“President Nixon and the Role of Intelligence in the 1973 Arab-Israeli War”) is a welcome addition to the literature. But it also “includes some embarrassing errors,” wrote Amir Oren in the Israeli paper Ha’aretz on February 3 (“CIA report on Yom Kippur War: Israel had nuclear arsenal”). “For example,” Oren wrote, “in the photograph labeled ‘An Egyptian soldier holding up a portrait of President Sadat,’ the soldier in question and the two soldiers flanking him are clearly Israelis, as evidenced by the ‘IDF’ stamped visibly on their shirts.” “The editors of ...

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@4squareviews » 06 Feb '13, 3pm
RT @global_bearings: CIA analyses on 1973 Yom Kippur War show simple errors; eg mistaking Israeli soldiers for Egyptian [link]
@AIIAVIC » 06 Feb '13, 7am
Declassified CIA analyses on 1973 Yom Kippur War show some errors including mistaking Israeli soldiers for Egyptians [link]
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@Global_Bearings » 05 Feb '13, 9pm
Ouch! Declass CIA analyses on 1973 Yom Kippur War show elementary errors; eg. mistaking Israeli soldiers for Egyptian - [link]
@turkey111 » 05 Feb '13, 8pm
RT @FAScientists: CIA publishes new essays on intelligence & 1973 Arab-Israeli war, report includes errors like Israel's nuclear arsenal [link]
@FAScientists » 05 Feb '13, 7pm
CIA publishes new essays on intelligence & 1973 Arab-Israeli war, report includes errors like Israel's nuclear arsenal [link]
@kelvynanderson » 05 Feb '13, 6pm
An Intelligence History of the 1973 Arab-Israeli War: The Central Intelligence Agency has published a series of ... [link]
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@mrhrmichael » 05 Feb '13, 5pm
RT @SpyTalker: #CIA report: #Israel may have had #nuclear weapons ready in '73 #War [link]
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@PhillipsPasha » 05 Feb '13, 5pm
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A new CIA history of the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, with a couple of errors [link]
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RT @SpyTalker: #CIA report: #Israel may have had #nuclear weapons ready in '73 #War [link]
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A new CIA history of the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, with a couple of errors

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