NOTES
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- For example, Quandt, Peace Process, p. 136.
- Ibid.; Golan: Soviet Policies, p. 78; Rubinstein, Red Star, p. 190.
- Kenneth W. Stein, Heroic Diplomacy, New York: Routledge, 1999, p. 65.
- Quandt, Peace Process, p. 135.
- SAR, no. 65, p. 168.
- FRUS N-XII, no. 170, editorial note.
- SAR, no. 64, p. 166.
- E.R.F. Sheehan, The Arabs, Israelis, and Kissinger: A Secret History of American Diplomacy
in the Middle East. New York: Reader’s Digest, 1976, p. 22; Seymour M. Hersh, The Price
of Power, New York: Summit Books, 1983, pp. 227–8. - Kissinger, White House Years, pp. 579–81; emphasis in original.
- Kissinger, Years of Upheaval, Boston: Little, Brown, 1982, p. 202; emphasis added.
- Marquis Childs, “Rogers Honeymoon Coming to End,” Times (Geneva, NY), 21 July
1970, p. 9. Childs’s report that Kissinger had gained the sobriquet “Nixon’s grey cardinal”
appears in a dispatch that Dobrynin sent to Gromyko the same day. SAR, no. 71, p. 182. - Debriefing report, quoted in Shalom, Phantoms, vol. 2, pp. 843–5. This and the corre-
sponding page on the IAF website (http://www.iaf.org.il/840-7179-he/IAF.aspx) are the
only references found so far to Bir Arida as an air base at this time. The location is on the
road connecting Ras Zaafrana on the Gulf of Suez with Beni Suef on the Nile; a section
of highway may have been used like Katameya as an “ambush” springboard for Soviet air-
craft. Evgeny Groisman and Oleg Granovsky (“Spetsoperatsii: Ognevye nalety,” Bratishka,
April 2011, http://bratishka.ru/archiv/2011/4/2011_4_16.php)) specify the Soviet planes
were scrambled from Beni Suef. - Chazov, Zdorov’e i vlast’, p. 54. Besides Nasser’s physical ailments, “in tête-à-tête meetings
he did not hide his depressed mood and his concern about a [further] deterioration of his
health.” - Smirnov, “O podgotovke,” pp. 29–30.
- Eli Landau, Ma’ariv, 1 July 1970, p. 2. IAF website history page for 30 June 1970, http://
http://www.iaf.org.il/840-7183-he/IAF.aspx, states the raid was aimed at “new SAM batteries,”
which were detected the same day after being advanced “up to the front line.” - Smirnov, “O podgotovke,” p. 31; personal communication to the authors from a Russian
source who requested anonymity, 5 July 2001. The WSO of this Phantom was rescued by
an IAF helicopter. - Heikal’s weekly column in Al-Ahram, 9 July 1970, quoted in Ma’ariv the same day, p. 1.
- Khandanyan, “Zharkoe nebo.” Malyauka’s competence and courage is likewise described
by his superior, then-Maj. Ivan K. Kovalenko, in Boris Ershov, “Oni zashchishchali chest’
strany, kotoraya ikh zabyvaet,” Karavan (Tver, Russia), undated (2002?), http://www.
karavan.tver.ru/html/n332/article5.php - Smirnov, “O podgotovke,” p. 30.
- Personal communication from Peer, 11 October 2000; Lieblich, Seasons, p. 68.
- Lieblich, Seasons, p. 66.
- Zubashenko, “Gennady Shishlakov.” The veteran’s claim of “shooting down an American