U.S. intelligence efforts The U.S. intelligence community, including the CIA, failed to predict in advance the Egyptian–Syrian attack on Israel. A U.S. intelligence report as late as 4 October still stated that "We continue to believe that an outbreak of major Arab–Israeli hostilities remains unlikely for the immediate future". However, one U.S. government source that was able to predict the approaching war was Roger Merrick, an analyst working for the INR (Bureau of Intelligence and Research in the State Department), but his conclusions were ignored at the time, and the report he had written to that effect was only rediscovered by U.S. government archive officials in 2013.
US intelligence efforts The US intelligence community including the CIA failed to predict in advance the Egyptian–Syrian attack on Israel A US intelligence report as late as 4 October still stated that "We continue to believe that an outbreak of major Arab–Israeli hostilities remains unlikely for the immediate future" However one US government source that was able to predict the approaching war was Roger Merrick an analyst working for the INR (Bureau of Intelligence and Research in the State Department) but his conclusions were ignored at the time and the report he had written to that effect was only rediscovered by US government archive officials in 2013