Intelligence about enemy presence in villages. especially when gathered by photo reconnaissance or foreign agents. is often faulty. A sixweek investigation in Lebanon indicates that. as in Vietnam. large numbers of civilians are being caught in a net cast for guerrillas. We visited scores of Lebanese villages and five Palestinian refugee camps where hundreds oi civiliansincluding women and childrenhad been wounded or killed. The Israelis are using the full range of sophisticated savagery known to our own military in Indochina: shells. bombs. phosphorous. incendiary bombs. CBUs and napalm. Much of it is supplied to the Israelis by the American aid program. Statistics are difficult to find and often inexact. but wellinformed diplomats in Beirut and United Nations officials have compiled a surprising set of reliable numbers. They note the Israeli government reports about 800 Israelis have been killed in recent years in terrorist attacks. but they estimate that the Israelis have killed about 3.500 people in their raids on villages and refugee camps in Lebanon. Syria and Jordan. The Lebanese government says 301 Lebanese civilians were killed and 682 Lebanese wounded in Israeli attacks between January 1968 and August 1974. most of them in the last year.