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- Whetten, Canal War, p. 59.
- Sochnev, “My byli pervymi.”
- Zhirokhov states that each An-12 carried only one “MiG-17, a MiG-21 or a Su-7B.”
Zhirokhov and Nicolle, “Unknown Heroes,” Part 1. Thus the claim that the first two An-12
flights brought twenty fighters to Eg ypt (Ro’i and Morozov, June 1967, p. 21) is clearly
inaccurate. - Following quotations from Brezhnev’s speech are from Hershberg, Aftermath, document
no. 2, pp. 14ff. The figures included shipments to Syria and Iraq, as well as Algeria, to off-
set its transfers to Eg ypt. - Interviewed in Elena Pavlova, “Spetszadaniya s peresecheniem gosgranitsy,” Vitebsky Kur’er,
2 September 2005. Dikusarov was later appointed political officer of his “battalion.” - Isaenko, “Polety.” This corresponds with reports that a paratroop division had been train-
ing in Crimea (and another in Azerbaijan) for a month before the Six-Day War for a drop
in Israel, and kept in readiness on the runways for its duration. Isabella Ginor and Gideon
Remez, “The Six-Day War as a Soviet Initiative: New Evidence and Methodological Issues,”
Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA), 12, 3 (2008), http://www.gloria-
center.org/2008/09/remez-2008–09–02/#_ednref20 - Sochnev, “My byli pervymi”; “Veteran G.A.,” posting from 25 September 2007 on http://
http://www.avia.ru/forum/8/3/6274217121013029809981175332183_17.shtml - Rubinstein, Red Star, p. 14. Podgorny’s official title was chairman of the Supreme Soviet
Presidium. - Richard Eder, “Yugoslavs Confirm Soviet Replacement of 100 MiG’s Eg yptians Lost in
Wa r ,” NYT, 18 June 1967, p. 24. - [Simha] Dinitz, Rome, to director-general, Foreign Ministry, 19 June 1967, ISA
HZ-4083/2. - Anatoly Z. Egorin, “Iz-pod arabskoy zheltoy kaski sineli russkiye glaza,” Trud-7 (Moscow),
6 March 1998, p. 22. - Handwritten glossary of Arabic terms in Russian transliteration, http://www.hubara-rus.
ru/index.html - Semenov, “Ot Khrushcheva,” entry for 6 June 1967, Part 1, pp. 130–1.
- Petr Lashchenko, “Zapiski Glavnogo Voennogo Sovetnika,” Voenno-Istorichesky Zhurnal,
11 (November 1996), p. 49. - AP, “Airliner Departs from Cairo,” News-Press (St. Joseph, MO), 17 June 1967, p. 7.
- John A. Callcott, UPI, “Eg ypt Today Is a Land of Uncertainty and Fear,” News and Courier
(Charleston, SC), 18 June 1967, p. 6C. - Dennis Neeld, AP (“Based in Cairo during the Arab–Israeli war, [now] reports from
Greece ... on Eg yptian developments”), “Ex-prisoners Detained,” Leader-Post (Regina,
SK), 22 June 1967, p. 16. - Gaven Hudgins, AP, “War Fever Weeks an Eternity,” Morning Herald (Daytona Beach,
FL), 13 June 1967, pp. 1, 8. - Don McGillivray, Southam News Service, “After Noisy Defiance, a Stunned Silence,”
Edmonton Journal, 9 June 1967, p. 1.