One of many CIA files on Yemen, (this one is from 1982), the US-Saudi fear of a unified Yemen is older than some of us

Page 6 of 12: “Saudi Arabia’s biggest fear is a united Yemen under leftist control”.....

https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP06T00412R000200760001-5.pdf @mamashami @InvincibleYeme1 @AlhouthiAhmed

Published 1988, declassified 2012, “oil in place & potentially recoverable oil”, Shabwah, Hadramaut, Marib, Al-Jawf, Yesterday it was a so called Soviet threat and today it’s a so called Iranian threat https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP89S01450R000500500001-7.pdf

1980, CIA declassified file: North Yemen, Soviet era ground to ground Scud B missiles for defense purposes against Saudi Arabia https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP83B01027R000300170041-5.pdf

A Washington post article from 1986 now deleted, of deputy director of the CIA in 1979, Frank Charles Carlucci & his covert operation to blow up a bridge in #SouthYemen with the help of British-Saudi intel failed and blew it’s cover, http://cia.gov/library/readin … @washingtonpost