NOTES
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Mahmud Abbas (Abu Mazen) is listed by Mitrokhin (p. 47, no. 244) as a KGB agent
(codename “Krotov”—mole), at least as of 1983.- SAR, no. 82, p. 192 (also FRUS N-XII, no. 218).
- “Minutes of a Combined WSAG and Review Group Meeting,” 9 September 1970, FRUS
N-XXIV, no. 214. - SAR, no. 83, p. 193.
- SAR, no. 84, pp. 194, 197.
- SAR, no. 86, p. 201
- Polmar, Spyplane, p. 167.
- Daigle, “Limits of Détente,” p. 196.
- Arad, 1000 ha-yamim, p. 273. As late as 1994, a prominent US study spoke of the “incon-
clusive termination of the war of attrition.” Lebow and Stein, We All Lost, p. 163. - Sherman, Bunkers, p. 192; Me’uzei Sinai, p. 159.
- Gordon, Thirty Hours, p. 89.
- Edward Kolcum, Aviation Week, translated in Ma’ariv, 12 January 1971, p. 16.
- Hod, interviewed by Yaqir Elqariv and Yaron Katz, Heyl ha-Avir (IAF Magazine), 140
( June 1984), p. 19. - Lieblich, Seasons, p. 41.
- Interviewed, 2007, in Gordon, Thirty Hours, p. 81.
- Spector, Loud and Clear, pp. 192–7; Gordon, Thirty Hours, p. 88. This constraint became
acute in the Yom Kippur War: by 22 October 1973 the IAF had lost thirty-two F-4s and
the United States had replaced them all, but as Elazar pointed out “the arriving Phantoms
have no impact as as there are no pilots for them.” The pilot/plane ratio for F-4s had
declined to 0.9. Golan, Decision Making, pp. 1155–6, 1230. - Merom, Ha-Hatashah, pp. 57–8.
- Military correspondent, Davar, 3 January 1971, p. 2.
- Platunov, “Provaly v pamyati.”
- Bar-Joseph, Angel, pp. 94, 97. As he puts Nasser’s death “within a month” of this meeting,
it must have taken place on or shortly after 28 August. - The Soviet personnel in Eg ypt were told by their political officers that Nasser was poi-
soned “by the American agentura in the Spanish Embassy.” Kvasyuk, “Snova na front.” - The only mention ever made of Lashchenko by the NYT in an Eg yptian context was to
list him and Okunev among the signatories of a mourning statement for Nasser. Both are
identified only by their other Soviet military titles. Bernard Gwertzman, “Moscow Affirms
That It Seeks Political Settlement in Mideast,” NYT, 30 September 1970, p. 1. - [Yosef ] Ben-Aharon, Israeli embassy, Washington, to Foreign Ministry, 2 December 1970,
ISA HZ-4605/3. The source was Walter Smith, Office of UAR Affairs, Department of
State. - Vinogradov, Diplomatiya, pp. 205–6.
- Vinogradov, “Sovetskie voiny v Egipte,” p. 14. His appointment was not publicized until
a week later; UPI, “Deputy Minister Is Named Soviet Ambassador to Cairo,” NYT,
7 October 1970.