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pointed out that Ivliev’s “long and bleak history ... is not such as to inspire automatic con-
fidence,” having been expelled from both Britain and France for intelligence activities. The
British official also noted Ivliev’s “admission that there is something peculiar about the
use to which the Russians put Port Said (we have always suspected this).”- C.L. Sulzberger, “Sadat Says Soviet Will Retain Use of Bases in Eg ypt,” NYT, 13 December
1972, p. 1. - Lebow and Stein, We All Lost, quoting interview with Vadim Zagladin, deputy director
of CC International Relations Department in 1973, on 18 May 1989; pp. 170, 457n122. - Bartov, Dado, vol. 1, p. 234, citing joint interview for three Israeli papers, 2 February 1973.
PART 4: “WE PREPARED THE WAR”
- Yuliya Latynina, “Armiya, kotoraya proigryvaet i zhaluetsya na zhenshchin,” Novaya Gazeta,
25 October 2004, http://2004.novayagazeta.ru/nomer/2004/79n/n79n-s02.shtml - Posting by “Mir Vam,” in Novaya Gazeta readers’ forum, 27 October 2004, responding to
the Latynina article. - Zvyagelskaya et al., Gosudarstvo Izrail’, p. 201.
- Patrick Seale, Asad: The Struggle for the Middle East, London: Tauris, 1988, p. 193, citing
Shazly, Crossing, p. 202. - AC, Eban testimony, Part 2, pp. 72–3.
- Joseph Alsop, “Columnist’s Scenario: Russians ‘Blinked,’” Herald-Statesman (Yonkers, NY),
27 October 1973. Quandt (Peace Process, p. 165), quotes a similar estimate by Alsop on
15 October as well founded, while Kissinger was still “suspicious, but ... felt the Soviets were
still interested in a diplomatic settlement.” - David C. Hendrickson, review of Edwin M. Yoder Jr., Joe Alsop’s Cold War: A Study of
Journalistic Influence and Intrigue, in Foreign Affairs (September/October 1995) - Draper, Present History, pp. 201, 276–7 (written December 1973). As the “general princi-
ples” for the Middle East had not yet been made public, his reference is to violation of the
global “basic principles.” - See, e.g., Markovsky, “My gotovili voynu.”
- “WE CAN’T CONTROL THE ARABS BUT MUST SUPPORT THEM”
- AP, “Eg yptian Shops for Arms in Soviet Union,” Times-Record (Troy, NY), 29 November
1972, p. 32; editorial, Davar, 5 December 1972, p. 9. - Rowland Evans and Robert Novak, “Eg ypt’s Sadat at Bay,” Daily Press (Utica, NY),
4 December 1972, p. 6. - “Reds Down First B-52 of War,” Los Angeles Times, 22 November 1972, p. 1.
- Lt-Gen. Mark Vorobyov, “Dvina Guarding Vietnam’s Skies,” Military Parade, the Magazine
of the [Russian] Defense Industry Complex, 28 (29 July 1998). - “Smirnov,” Arabo-izrail’skie voyny, p. 304.
- Davar, 5 December 1972, p. 9.
- Bar-Joseph, Angel, p. 187.
- Arab affairs correspondent, Davar, 21 December 1972, p. 1.