Approved For Release 2008/05/27: CIA-RDP88B00443R001404090133-0

SECRET

14 September 1983

BRINGING REAL MUSCLE TO BEAR AGAINST SYRIA

Summary:

Syria at present has a hammerlock on US interests both in Lebanon and in

the Gulf -- through closure of Iraq's pipeline thereby threatening Iraqi

internationalization of the war. The US should consider sharply escalating

the pressures against Assad through covertly orchestrating simultaneous

military threats against Syria from three border states hostile to yria: