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- A later British assessment held that around twenty of the sixty Soviet MiG-21s were
“handed over to the Eg yptians.” “Military Implications for NATO of the Soviet Withdrawal
from Eg ypt,” undated but giving estimates for 5 October 1972, NA(PRO). - The Israeli record of a flight on 16 May disproves the claim that “in March ’72 two planes
were ordered back with first group of personnel, and the rest in April”; Bysenkov, “V
20,000 metrakh.” More plausible but apparently inaccurate is the version that “MiG-25
flights continued till June 1972,” in “MiG-25 i modifikatsii,” http://www.aviation-gb7.
ru/MiG-25_01.htm - Andrey Pochtarev, “Blizhnevostochny triumf ‘letuchikh lisits,’” Krasnaya Zvezda,
17 August 2002, http://old.redstar.ru/2002/08/17_08/4_01.html;V. Yu. Markovsky,
“MiG-25 nad Sinaem,” in Markovsky, “Idite v zemlyu egipetskuyu: Uchastie sovetskikh
MiG-25RB v arabo-izrail’skoy voyne Sudnogo dnya 1973g.” - N[o’am] Ofir, Heyl ha-Avir (IAF Magazine), 118 (December 1997), http://www.iaf.org.
il/463-18650-he/IAF.aspx - Urwick to MOD, 21 July 1972, 1230 GMT, NA(PRO).
- Abramov, Goluboe, p. 54
- Vladimir Babich, “Kak MiG-25 ushel ot ‘oblavy’ bolee 10 ‘Fantomov,’” Krasnaya Zvezda,
24 February 1996, http://www.soldiering.ru/avia/airplane/25arabian.php - Volodin, “Na Izrail’.”
- Authorization signed by the acting commander of the 112th Infantry Brigade, 16 July
1972, CDE-IHC 48/11. - Murzintsev, Zapiski, pp. 6, 135–8.
- “Smirnov,” Arabo-izrail’skie voyny, p. 282. Cf. Krokhin, “Dubl.”
- FCO telegram 1031, British embassy, Cairo, to FCO, 0900 GMT, 18 July 1972, p. 2,
NA(PRO). - Urwick to MOD, UK; unnumbered FCO telegram, 21 July 1972, 1230 GMT, NA(PRO).
- WITHDRAWN REGULARS CONCEAL “BANISHED” ADVISERS
- Truthfully enough, but in what seemed at the time as covering up a unilateral expulsion,
the report attributed their repatriation to mutual agreement. Roger Leddington, AP
Moscow, “Job Done in Eg ypt, as Tass Explains It,” Yonkers Herald-Statesman, 20 July 1972,
p. 2. - Dobrynin, Sugubo doveritel’no, p. 244.
- Lev Bausin, Spetssluzhby mira na Blizhnem Vostoke, Moscow: OLMA-Press, 2001, p. 207.
- Markovsky, “My gotovili voynu.”
- Pochtarev, “Blizhnevostochny triumf.”
- Zolotarev et al., Rossiya, pp. 197, 519n357.
- FCO telegram D14, British defense attaché, Tel Aviv, to MOD, 20 July 1972, NA(PRO),
based on talk with Col. Reuter, a liaison officer of the IDF spokesman. - “Sisco–Rabin Conversation on Expulsion of Soviet Advisors,” Department of State tele-
gram 135853, secretary of state to embassy Tel Aviv (and others), 27 July 1972, NARA,
NSC Files, country files, ME–Israel, box 609.