Chinese Communist advisers are being attached to the Syrian Army’s general headquarters in a Peking bid to exploit the Arab-Israel conflict, the Israel Army Radio’s Arab affairs commentator, Eliezer Ben Moshe, asserted yesterday in a broadcast.
He said that the Chinese Communist advisers were among 185 experts and technicians who came from Peking last week under a Chinese-Syrian agreement on military economic and scientific aid. (In Washington, State Department sources said they had no information about the arrival in Syria of any Chinese military experts.)
Ben Moshe said that the Chinese Communists wanted to demonstrate to the Arabs that Peking supports them against Israel more vigorously than the Soviet Union does. He added 415 more men would arrive soon from Peking for assignment to other Syrian government departments. He also asserted that Syria and Communist China had an agreement which will allow the Chinese to use Syria as a base for operations in the Middle East.
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