The Soviet-Israeli War, 1967–1973. The USSR’s Military Intervention in the Egyptian-Israeli Conflict

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63. As in 1967, Zakharov complained that “he had seen signs of slackness among the sentries
    on roads and bridges.” Heikal, Road to Ramadan, pp. 109–11.


64. Ben-Aharon, Israeli embassy, Washington, to Foreign Ministry, 28 August 1970, ISA
    HZ-4605/3. The report was distributed widely and as high up as the prime minister. The
    source was [Philip H.] Stoddard, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of
    State.


65. “Kak nash zemlyak.”


66. Heikal, Road to Ramadan, p. 118; Kapitanets, Na Sluzhbe, pp. 271–6.


67. SADAT PROVES HIS STABILITY AND LOYALTY
    
    
    1. Viktor Zaytsev, “Pomnyu Egipet,’ in Grigory Abramov et al. (eds), Smolyane v lokal’nykh
       voynakh XX veka: Sbornik vospominany, Smolensk: Universum, 2006, p. 71.
    
    
    2. Bondarenko, “Mariupol’tsy.”
    
    
    3. Foxbats, Chapter 13; further evidence in Ginor and Remez, “Soviet initiative.”
    
    
    4. Bard, “Phantom Jets.” On the confusion between MiG-23 and 25, see Chapter 4, note 37.
    
    
    5. Davar, 1 October 1968, p. 1.
    
    
    6. Heikal, Road to Ramadan, p. 86, emphasis added. In retrospect, Israeli reports cited
       “increased rumors” in February 1970 that “‘MiG-23s’ would be activated in Eg ypt for
       defense against Israeli attacks.” Eli Landau, Ma’ariv, 12 April 1971, pp. 9, 12. Shalom
       (Phantoms, vol. 1, p. 527, vol. 2, p. 1157n5) claims (unsourced) that the planes actually
       arrived in Eg ypt in 1970, but only “to serve the Russians’ global interests ... and [were]
       not put at the Eg yptians’ disposal” until 1971.
    
    
    7. Abramov, Goluboe, p. 56.
    
    
    8. More than two months after the arrival of Soviet squadrons in Eg ypt, Reston took Nasser’s
       word that “he is hesitating about asking for Soviet pilots.” “Nasser, in Interview, Says He
       Is Seeking Soviet Weapons,” NYT, 15 February 1970, p. 1.
    
    
    9. Embassy Moscow to secretary of state, 19 February 1970, NARA NSC files, country files,
       USSR, vol. VI, box 711.
    
    
    
    


68. SAR, p. 140n2, citing Dobrynin’s report to Foreign Ministry, 22 March 1970. There is no
    other record that Kissinger mentioned the “MiG-23,” but the erroneous appellation indi-
    cates he cited a US source.


69. Vinogradov, “Sovetskie voiny v Egipte,” p. 13.


70. Slukhay, Katyshkin. At this stage, “missile-bearing bombers” seems more applicable to the
    Tu-16s, but the experimental designation definitely refers to the future MiG-25.


71. V. Yu. Markovsky, “‘My gotovili voynu,’” first published in Aerohobby magazine before
    2001, reproduced at http://www.foxbat.ru/article/mig25/mig25_1.htm. The article provides
    copious technical details including the serial numbers of the four Foxbats that were even-
    tually based in Eg ypt.


72. Volodin, “Na Izrail’.”


73. Memorial page for Lysenko at http://www.astronaut.ru (now unaccessible). William
    Stevenson’s semi-fictional Zanek: A Chronicle of the Israeli Air Force, New York: Viking,
    1971, pp. 39–48, 126, gives a bizarre account from April to May 1970 in which an IAF