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recently exposed as a collaborator with Soviet intelligence in the 1930s and 1940s; Samuel
Nicholson, “A Most Unlikely Agent: Robert S. Allen,” Washington Decoded, 11 September
2010, http://www.washingtondecoded.com/site/2010/09/a-most-unlikely-agent.html;
Thomas E. Ricks, “Patton’s Third Army Deputy Intel Officer Briefly Was on the KGB’s
P a y r o l l ,” Foreign Policy (1 December 2010), http://ricks.foreignpolicy.com/posts/
2010/12/01/pattons_third_army_deputy_intel_officer_briefly_was_on_the_kgbs_
payroll- Vladimir I. Kryshtob, “I eta voyna byla by zavtra ...,” Novaya Gazeta, 26 July 2004,
http://2004.novayagazeta.ru/nomer/2004/53n/n53n-s21.shtml - This source was a former Soviet serviceman living in Israel, who related to the authors that
his non-Jewish classmate was sent with a tank unit to Eg ypt in 1971. Other references
include the Shilka gunner Shishlakov, who mentioned “tanks” but gave no further detail;
Zubashenko, “Gennady Shishlakov.” The announcement in 2014 of a planned memorial
for Soviet casualties in Eg ypt listed tankists among the “experts” who were repatriated in
1972. - Slukhay, Katyshkin.
- Khalil, “Building a Wall of Missiles”; Zolotarev et al., Rossiya, pp. 190–1.
- Interview in Yedi’ot Ahronot, 2 March 1990, quoted in Korn, Stalemate, p. 229. Korn rec-
onciles this date with the SAM units’ supposed dispatch after Nasser’s appeal in January
1970 by referring to the deployment of Popov’s outfit on the canal front in March. - A.G. Smirnov, “O podgotovke i provedenii operatsii ‘Kavkaz,’” in Safonov et al., Grif,
pp. 19–21. This is evidently the delegation referred to by Katyshkin’s biographer: “at the
end of the 1960s, a Soviet military contingent arrived in Eg ypt ... [including ] air force
pilots, led by the famous ace from the Great Patriotic War, HSU Gen S[emen]. I. Kharlamov,
an air defense division under General ... Smirnov, radiotechnic, engineering and other
detachments.” Slukhay, Katyshkin. - Kryshtob, “I eta voyna byla by zavtra ...”; Konstantin Popov (“Divizyony dayut ognya,” in
Meyer et al., To g d a, p. 306), relates a similar Strela incident while his divizyon was sta-
tioned in Alexandria in March 1970. He describes the plane, however, as an Eg yptian
An-24 airliner. - Abraham Rabinovich, Sefinot Cherbourg, Re’ut (Israel): Meltzer, 2001, pp. 137, 138–9,
145. - V.M. Pak, “Vspominaya shtab flota,” in Meyer et al., To g d a, p. 277.
- Kryshtob, “I eta voyna byla by zavtra ...”
- G[avri’el] Strassman, Ma’ariv, 29 December 1969, p. 2, quoting Claire Hollingworth in
the Daily Telegraph the same day. - L. Zakharov, “Komandirovka v Egipet,” p. 31.
- Vinogradov, “Sovetskie voiny v Egipte,” p. 11.
- Roy Macartney, “US Is Disillusioned over Middle East,” Sydney Morning Herald, 30 January
1970, p. 2. - SAR, no. 42, pp. 110–12 and no. 43, pp. 112–13.
- Sakharov, High Treason, p. 223; emphasis added.