NOTES
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- Later, Sedov contemplated recruiting a Kissinger aide at the NSC, but Kalugin claims to
have overruled him. Oleg Kalugin, Spymaster: My Thirty-Two Years in Intelligence and
Espionage against the West, New York: Basic, 2009, p. 123. - Marvin Kalb and Bernard Kalb, Kissinger, Boston: Little, Brown, 1974, pp. 21–6.
- SAR, no. 4, p. 7.
- UPI, “Israel Rejects Peace Plan,” St. Petersburg Times (FL), 6 January 1969, p. 2. TASS
UN correspondent Sergey Losev, who had previously been posted (and identified as a
KGB operative) in Israel, argued to an Israeli diplomat that the Soviets’ call for a full with-
drawal in return for less than a peace treaty would be better for Israel. [Moshe] Leshem,
New York, to director general, Foreign Ministry, 12 January 1969, ISA HZ-4221/9. - Reuters, Davar, 12 January 1969, p. 12; Pravda quoted in Ma’ariv, 12 January 1969, p. 3.
- Kalb and Kalb, Kissinger, pp. 102–5. Nixon instructed Rogers that a decision about “talks
on strategic weapons” should depend on “progress toward stabilizing the explosive Middle
East situation.” SAR, 4 February 1969, no. 1, pp. 3–4. - SAR, no. 3, pp. 5–6; emphasis in original.
- SAR, no. 4, p. 7.
- SAR, no. 11, p. 20 and no. 24, p. 66.
- “Our superiors in Moscow” were especially “delighted” by the intercept of a talk between
Kissinger and his then-fiancee. Kalugin, Spymaster, p. 102. - SAR, Kissinger Foreword, p. x; emphasis added.
- SAR, no. 6, p. 15.
- According to a former Indian military attaché who was a frequent guest in Eg ypt, this was
also Nasser’s main motivation for launching the War of Attrition. Maj.-Gen. D.K. Palit,
Return to Sinai: The Arab Offensive, October 1973, New Delhi: Lancer, 1974; reprinted,
2002, pp. 10–11. - SAR, no. 8, pp. 20–1.
- SAR, no. 11, pp. 31–2.
- Memorandum of conversation, 1 March 1969, DR vol. 2, sec. VIII, no. 32, p. 4. De Gaulle
“believed that the Soviets were not far” from his position, and Kissinger admitted to
Dobrynin two days later that the United States might be outnumbered or tied in the four-
power talks. SAR, 3 March 1969, no. 11, p. 31. - Zhirokhov, Rozhdennye voynoy, Chapter 6. Like most other histories, he adds inaccurately
“Nasser declared the War of Attrition.” - Cited in Ma’ariv, 19 February 1969, p. 2.
- Haggai Eshed, Davar, 11 March 1969, p. 1; editorial in same issue.
- Korn, Stalemate, p. 108. Contemporary press reports dated this visit, and the officers’
clamor, on 1 March. The date given to Korn may have originated from a cabinet session
chaired by Nasser on 16 February to discuss the sniping that had already begun and Israeli
threats to retaliate. - Military correspondent, Ma’ariv, 13 February 1969, p. 1.
- Paris correspondent, Ma’ariv, 16 February 1969, p. 2; Shimshon Ofer, Davar, 7 March
1969, p. 4.