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A document classified as "Top secret" handed over by the CIA to the Federal Archive Archive Committee, which is related to Egypt obtaining nuclear aid in 1973 just before it entered the war.
On the morning of August 28, 2012, the duration of the ban imposed by the US National Security Information Act was lifted on the document, which was kept in the most secret files since the morning of 30 October 1973.
Following the examination by the US sergeant of the document, he approved it at 9 am on September 4, 2012 with the stamp of the archives of the files of the US Federal National Security as an official document..I obtained a copy of the document with permission to publish.
The document consists of 7 pages and carries the US security number:
EO–13526 3.3 (B) >25 YRS – 13526 3.5 (C)
Very secret from 30 October 1973.
Subject: Soviet nuclear weapons in Egypt?
I convey to you the text of the document exclusively as it is without interference:
"The source - the name was deleted in the document due to complete confidentiality even after the publication - confirmed the existence of the Scud missile ballistic missiles in two sites in Cairo, which confirms the seriousness of the Egyptian threat of a decisive blow if the Israeli army tried to invade Cairo.
The exclusive information about Egypt's possession in October 1973 of a limited nuclear deterrent force proves that the Soviet Union introduced non-conventional weapons into the Middle East in violation of international and UN agreements.
The attached platforms and missiles are located in an area surrounded by strong security arrangements located near the caves of «Tura», located about 10 kilometers south of the Egyptian capital Cairo.
Two Russian armored vehicles carrying Scud missiles fitted for installation and loading on their platforms prepared for receiving limited nuclear warheads were already spotted at Cairo International Airport.
The Russian-made surface-to-surface Scud missile has 160 air miles range and is designed to carry a 200-kilo-tons unconventional nuclear warhead, a terrible threat to Israeli populated cities.
There are certain speculations that there are in Egypt today - the American document speaks of October 1973 - several small-scale nuclear warheads that has arrived before October 1973."
Then we read in the body of the «top secret» American document a title edited on the side :
«The possibility of the introduction of the Soviet nuclear weapons to the Middle East».
On October 22, 1973, the US sources of information monitored- There are two lines that are hidden from the complete confidential document - the fastest-moving Soviet warship in the fleet,- Mezhdurechenck -, carrying the limited nuclear warheads on its route across the Baltic Sea through the Turkish Bosphorus Strait, In the direction of the Mediterranean Sea.
On the morning of October 24, 1973, the Russian warship Mezhdurechenck, which frequented the Egyptian port more than once since the beginning of October, was docked in the military port of Alexandria on October 24, according to information from the CIA.
The same Russian ship left the Egyptian port on October 27, 1973, under close US surveillance. It was spotted on 20 October 1973 as it crossed the Turkish Bosphorus Strait towards the Black Sea.
It is well known that the Russian military cargo ship Mezhdurechenck has no recorded history of nuclear arms shipments. It entered service with the Soviet navy in 1965, its recorded cargo was 10,000 tonne and it did not carry any suspicious signs or signals to raise doubts.
The ship was unloaded inside the port of Alexandria on October 15, 1973, and it was decided in the schedule of operations to sail back to the Egyptian port on 29 October 1973 to deliver more shipments of arms.
It is clear that the planned intent was not to draw excessive attention to the ship's non-conventional cargo, while the distance and time calculation numbers for the ship's sailing route indicated that it had stopped during its shuttle flights more than once to empty special cargoes Including nuclear warheads delivered to the Russian military fleet already anchored in the vicinity of international waters near Egyptian waters around the Mediterranean Sea.
US information confirms that the Russian warship "Mezhdurechenck" has already delivered limited nuclear warheads in the Egyptian port of Alexandria, the heads designed to launch by the Scud platforms already in place - in Cairo.
US information confirms that Cairo has obtained the FROG-7 tactical surface-to-surface missile capable of carrying a 3 to 9 KILOTON nuclear warhead for a maximum distance of 43 miles.
"US information confirmed the presence of two long-range SU-7 and SU-17 nuclear bombers with one IL-28 launcher, as well as Egypt's air force already existing short-range TU-16 bombers. The latter can carry a small-scale, multi-use nuclear bomb from surface-to-surface scud missiles, direct fall or even non-conventional air-to-ground missiles.
There is a possibility that the Russian military cargo ship Mezhdurechenck has unloaded a nuclear warhead shipment similar to those of the Russian naval fleet stationed in the international waters of the Mediterranean, knowing that a number of Soviet fleet ships have nuclear capabilities."
The "Top secret report" confirms that three Russian military ships carrying nuclear heads and cargo docked in Egyptian ports on the Mediterranean Sea since the incident of President Sadat's decision to expel the Soviet experts from Egypt on July 18, 1972.
US information indicates that Russian Scud missile munitions were shipped to Egypt in July 1973, while their platforms were shipped by the Russian warship Nikolayev.
The accurate US sources confirm that Egyptian officers were trained to operate the unconventional missile systems of the Russian Scud missile, and that their training was conducted in strict secrecy in mid-August 1973.
The secret Soviet decision to supply Egypt with limited nuclear warheads designed to launch from Scud missiles was made after Moscow agreed to the Egyptian Air Force Commander Mubarak's request on 14 October 1973. While the leadership of the Communist Party of Soviet Union adopted the same resolution on October 19, 1973, before the first cease-fire came into effect on October 22, 1973.
The "the Top Secret" US document reveals that it was clear that a sharp political problem occurred between President Sadat and Alexei Kosegin, the Soviet prime minister who held office from October 15, 1964 until October 23, 1980. And that Kosegin had arrived in Cairo on the morning of October 16, 1973, and attended the details of President Sadat's speech at the Egyptian People's Assembly when he presented Soviet strategic nuclear information at risk as described in the document.
Which indicates that Sadat used in his public speech that day the fact that his country possessed non-conventional warheads, threatening to use it against Israel, thereby achieving the concept of strategic deterrence.
The document reveals that the Russian leader Leonid Brezhnev backed the Egyptian president's information on the nuclear issue when he threatened to the Security Council on October 26, 1973 that the Soviet Union would respond with "unconventional" force if Israeli infiltrators tried with American approval not to respect the cease-fire.
The direct reason behind the transfer of limited nuclear warheads to Egypt in October 1973 is the goal of achieving the concept of comprehensive strategic deterrence and preventing the United States from interfering with its military strength in retaliation to destroy the victorious Egyptian army.
Source:
By Tawhid Magdy - Morning Gate = 20 November 2013
