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- Serkov, Liniya fronta, pp. 46–7.
- Korn, Stalemate, p. 107.
- Following quotations of Malashenko are from Vspominaya, pp. 269–99.
- Vinogradov, Diplomatiya, p. 245. Eitan Haber, Ze’ev Schiff and Dani Asher, The War:
Yom Kippur War Lexicon, revised edn, Tel Aviv: Kinneret, Zmora-Bitan, Dvir, 2013, p. 14. - Interviewed in Vo slavu rodiny (Minsk, Belarusian Defense Ministry daily), 20 February
2003. - Badry, Ramadan War, p. 16.
- Heikal, Road to Ramadan, pp. 44, 78, 110, 182 (“Lashinkov”); Gen. Sa’ad el-Shazly, The
Crossing of the Suez, revised English edn, San Francisco: American Mideast Research, 2003,
pp. 197–8, 277–8 (“Lashnekov”). - Katyshkin was promoted to colonel-general a few days after arriving in Eg ypt.
- For example, naval adviser Vladimir Kryshtob, “I eta voyna,” who also describes similar
opinions of Katyshkin among colleagues in the ground forces. - Gennady Goryachkin, “Sud’ba voennogo perevodchika v Egipte,” in Meyer et al., To g d a,
p. 72. - 112th Infantry Brigade, “Instructions concerning modus operandi of experts in the Armed
Forces,” 29 January 1969, CDE-IHC, 367/12. - Shmu’el Segev, Ma’ariv, 9 July 1968, p. 9.
- Herzog, Ma’ariv, 13 October 1968, p. 10.
- Uri Dann, Ma’ariv, 28 October 1968, p. 2.
- William Beecher, “Role of Eg ypt’s Russian Advisers Is Worrying U.S.,” NYT, 22 October
1968, p. 12; Shalom, Phantoms, vol. 1, p. 200. - AP, “Israel, Eg ypt Jets Dogfight over Canal,” Post-Gazette (Pittsburgh); UPI, “Israel, Arabs
Edg y over New Flareups,” Press (Pittsburgh), both 24 October 1968, p. 1. - Ma’ariv, 4 October 1968.
- Eli Landau, Ma’ariv, 28 October 1968.
- Brig.-Gen. Iftach Spector, Loud and Clear, Tel Aviv: Yedi’ot Ahronot, 2008 (has appeared
in English as Loud and Clear: The Memoir of an Israeli Fighter Pilot, Minneapolis: Zenith,
2009), pp. 145–6; Davar, 4 November 1968, p. 1. The Egyptian claims are reflected in
David Nicolle and Tom Cooper, Arab MiG-19 and MiG-21 Units in Combat, London:
Osprey, 2004, p. 25. - The chronolog y in the official “victory album” 1,000 ha-Yamim omits these incidents
entirely, as does the IAF history website. - Shalom, Phantoms, vol. 1, pp. 203–5.
- Department of Defense Memorandum of Conversation I-359993/68, Rabin and others
with Assistant Secretary Paul C. Warnke and others, 4 November 1968, p. 3. Kindly shared
by Michael Oren. IAF chief Hod was present and had certainly been informed about the
previous day’s action. - Memorandum of Conversation, “Negotiations with Israel: F-4 and Advanced Weapons,”
4 November 1968. Lucius Battle had urged at least to demand straight answers from Israel
on its missile development program, but this was not pressed. “Israel and the MD-620