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four-year term, and was soon appointed to a ministerial position for the Labor Party. On
3 February, in London, he accused the Soviets of plotting the War of Attrition, but judged
that they had learned from its “failure” and were now urging Eg ypt to avoid war. Ma’ariv,
31 January 1972, p. 3.- Ma’ariv, 20 January 1972, p. 3. Nixon had disclosed his decision in a television interview
on 2 January, a few days after the F-4s topped the “shopping list” that Meir handed him. - JOCKEYING AND POSTURING
- SAR, no. 266, p. 63.
- Kissinger, White House Years, p. 1132.
- SAR, no. 274, pp. 626–7. Kissinger reported (no. 272, p. 616) only warning against
informing the Eg yptians “since they were bound to be penetrated by the Israelis.” But he
noted that some of Dobrynin’s claims about a potential “increase of military presence in
Eg ypt ... seems confirmed by Israeli intelligence”—which indicates he was briefed about
the Israelis’ sources in Eg ypt. - Bar-Joseph, Angel, pp. 125–8.
- State Department to Cairo, “Eg ypt through a Professor’s Eyes,” 9 March 1973, https://
http://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1973STATE043758_b.html - CIA, Directorate of Intelligence, “Soviet–Eg yptian Relations: An Uneasy Alliance,”
28 March 1972, p. 6, https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-
RDP85T00875R001100130044–4.pdf; emphasis added. - V.B. Ivanov, “Egipetskie kontrasty,” in Meyer et al., To g d a, pp. 180–1.
- [Capt.] N. Antropov, “Kod Pechora,” in Abramov et al., Smolyane, p. 65.
- AP, “Sadat Acts to Win Support at Home,” Daily Press (Utica, NY), 21 February 1972,
p. 48.
- War Ministry, minister’s directive 1972/4, 27 February 1972, CDE-IHC 320/12. A
reminder was issued on 15 March to officers and noncoms of the 49th Infantry Brigade;
CDE-IHC 479/1. - War Ministry Intelligence Directorate security circular no. 57, 12 April 1972,
CDE-IHC. - Khandanyan, “Zharkoe.” Bringing the gold into the USSR was illegal; an ocean-liner cap-
tain and several of his crew were jailed for smuggling gold from Alexandria for sale to den-
tists in Odessa. Sakharov, High Treason, p. 251. - Whetten, Canal War, p. 225; unsourced.
- Primakov, Blizhniy Vostok, p. 280.
- SAR, p. 627n3.
- SAR, no. 288, p. 657.
- Gefele, “Napishi.” Presnukhin was tasked to convey secret documents to Okunev at a tem-
porary command post near Aswan, which may have been connected with the following
episode. - Interviewed by Andrey Marchenko “General-Mayor VVS Vagin: Vostok kak dal’ny tak i
blizhniy; delo tonkoe,” Part 2, Avtodaydzhest-Online (Minsk), 242, 8 November 2001,