Rep. Bob Wilson, Cal, Rep., and member of the House Armed Services Committee, announced in Congress today that he would seek amendment to the Foreign Aid Bill which would deny U.S. military equipment or training to the Arab states now collaborating with the Soviet Union. The condition, he said, would be mandatory, not discretionary.
The Californian revealed that the United States had trained Syrian army officers in American military establishments. Some of them, he charged, were pro-Communists who previously had received orientation and training in the Soviet Union. He said it was “inexcusable” that the Administration admitted these Syrians for training when such men could be expected to convey “every vestige of intelligence” to Moscow, Hanoi and Peking.
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