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8000 Advisors Departing Report Russians May Leave Aswan Dam

July 28, 1972
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Israeli experts believe as many as 8000 Soviet advisors are being pulled out of Egypt. Foreign sources here said today that these may include Russian personnel stationed at the Aswan High Dam. They said recent signs pointed to an evacuation of Soviet technicians and advisors from the dam that was designed and built by Russian engineers.

Moscow financed the project intended to store Nile waters for irrigation purposes after the late US Secretary of State John Foster Dulles refused to accept Egyptian terms for American backing. That episode is widely believed to have opened the door to Russian penetration of Egypt.

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