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- Hershberg, Aftermath, pp. 16–17, emphasis added.
- Two reports in Ma’ariv, 9 July 1967, p. 3.
- Personal communication from a former Israeli naval officer who requested anonymity,
4 July 2011. While the Soviet military routinely excluded anyone registered as Jewish from
any mission to Arab countries, some individuals did serve there who had a Jewish grand-
parent or later married Jewish women, and thus qualified for immigration to Israel. - Foxbats, pp. 86–7, 149.
- Capt. Vladimir Zaborsky, “Sovetskaya Sredizemnomorskaya Eskadra,” NVO, 13 October
2006, http://nvo.ng.ru/history/2006–10–13/5_eskadra.html - Shelest, Spravzhniy, p. 242.
- TASS, quoted by UPI, “Soviet Warships to Visit Eg ypt,” Sarasota Herald-Tribune, 10 July
1967, p. 5. - E.g., photo caption in the Monmouth County, NJ, Daily Register, 11 July 1967, p. 1; “Russ
Send Warships to Port Said,” Bee (Modesto, CA), 10 July 1967, p. 2. The error was repeated
in Cable, Gunboat Diplomacy, p. 146. - Australian Associated Press, “Russian Ships, Top Envoy Go to Eg ypt,” The Age (Melbourne),
12 July 1967, p. 2; Agencia EFE report, ABC (Madrid), 12 July p. 46. As the reports are
virtually identical and both name the admiral as “Igor’ Nikolay Molotsov,” they evidently
originated from the same reporter. - AP, “Israelis Down Eg yptian Jet, Agree on Suez,” Utica Observer-Dispatch, 11 July 1967,
p. 1. - UPI, Pittsburgh Press, 12 July 1967, p. 1. The Israeli force was led by the destroyer Ellat,
which would allow its sinking in October to be described as retaliation. - AP, “Israelis, Arabs in New Battles,” Spokane Spokesman-Review, 16 July 1967, p. 1.
- “Memorandum for the Record: Meeting with Brigadier General Mordecai Hod,” 13 January
1968. - Zaborsky, “Sovetskaya Sredizemnomorskaya Eskadra.”
- John K. Cooley, “Soviet Naval Visit Reassures Eg ypt,” CSM, 12 July 1967, p. 1.
- UPI, “Israel Prepared to Fight to Defend Boats in Suez,” News and Courier (Charleston,
SC), 19 July 1967, p. 4; Hershberg, Aftermath, p. 22. - At Qantara, other advisers told Egorin that Israeli fire had intensified once their presence
became known. Egipet, pp. 180–1. - Willam R. Frye, CSM, “Kremlin’s Gunboat Diplomacy Reminds Israel of War Limit,”
Star-Phoenix (Saskatoon, SK), 18 July 1967, p. 11. - Cable, Gunboat Diplomacy, p. 14, illustrating his point that the Soviet Mediterranean
eskadra was intended to perform such missions because it was so inferior to the Sixth Fleet.
He defines “purposeful” intervention as one that “induces someone else to take a decision
which would not otherwise have been taken” (ibid., p. 39). - Vice-Adm. A[leksandr] A. Tatarinov et al. (eds), Shtab Rossiyskogo Chernomorskogo Flota:
1831–2001; Istorichesky ocherk, Simferopol: Tavrida, 2002, p. 81. - Admiral of the Fleet Ivan Kapitanets, Na sluzhbe okeanskomu flotu 1946–1992, Moscow:
Andreevsky Flag, 2000, p. 177. He commanded a group of three destroyers that was en