WEEKLY SUMMARY - SOVIET UNION: ISRAELI POLICY

Created: 12/17/1948

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WEEKLY SUMMARY

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CENTRAL INTELLI6ENCE AGENCY

. SOVIET UNION

Israeli Policy Although the Kremlin is unlikely to alter its

basic policy toward Israel beforesraeli elections, tho recent marked change inearlier friendly attitude toward Israel may reflect an impending change In Soviet tactics tn the Near East.authorities have cancelled the Israeli military training program and the Government has allegedly forbidden unscheduled

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atr flights to Israel. This latter move, by curtailingarms shipments, represents an obvious financial loss to Czechoslovakia and was probably dictated by tbe Soviet Union. The USSR may estimate that the establishment of Israelisruptive force tn the Arab world has now been accomplished and that further military aidountry of basically pro-western sympathies would ultimately prove prejudicial to Soviethe Near East Nevertheless, the Soviet Union, In the faint hope that Israel's pro-western alignment may change after theanuary Israeli elections, has not yet altered lbs basic policy of politically supporting Israel. ,

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