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ical leadership’s consultations found no evidence for Kipnis’s thesis that Meir and Dayan
doubted even the most reliable reports of Eygpt’s impending offensive as they hoped Sadat
was merely escalating pressure on Israel for a political settlement after the upcoming Israeli
election.- AP report, Palladium-Times (Oswego, NY), 10 February 1973, p. 1; Davar, 9 February
1973, p. 1. - “Vermerk über des Gespräch mit Gen. R[ostislav] A. Uljanowski, Stellvertreter des leit-
ers der Internationales Abteilung des ZK der KPdSU an 27 Februar 1973 in Moskau,”
Stasi archive IV, 212.035/55, pp. 18–19, kindly provided by Stefan Meining, Munich. To
their East German allies, the Soviets maintained the appearance of an “expulsion” from
Eg ypt but minimized its significance and stressed its “reversal.” Ulyanovsky quoted
Brezhnev: “Sadat acted under pressure from right-wing forces, particularly former war
minister Sadiq. Now they regret this move ... we have once again regulated the advisers’
work [and] military cooperation.” - Soviet leadership to President Nixon, FRUS N-XXV, no. 20.
- Washington Post, “Nixon Tells Eg yptian Advisor: Our Goal—Snap Mideast Deadlock,”
Times (Geneva, NY), 24 February, 1973, p. 2. - This Eg yptian position included, besides a full Israeli withdrawal from all occupied
Eg yptian territory, the non-starter of “Palestinian rights,” which Ismail carried beyond
Sadat’s demand for return of the refugees: “this problem should be reduced to the size of
Arab and Jewish communities within the area of mandated Palestine.” Kissinger to Nixon,
25–6 February 1973, FRUS N-XXV, no. 28. - Memorandum of conversation, 8 March 1973, FRUS N-XXV, no. 81.
- Press photos showed Grechko meeting Ismail at the ramp of this Il-18. Previously, an
Eg yptian announcement said that he would fly on a special Eg yptian plane. - Gil Qesari, Paris, Ma’ariv, 27 February 1973, p. 1.
- Oded Granot, Ma’ariv, 26 February 1973, p. 2.
- E.g., Eg yptian Lt-Gen. Bassam Kakish in Parker, October War, p. 92.
- Badry, Ramadan War, p. 46.
- “Smirnov,” Arabo-izrail’skie voyny, p. 306. His alter ego Krokhin, who published a near-
identical version, left Eg ypt only in June 1973, and—exceptionally—received in the same
month a gramota (citation) for “internationalist service,” though without mention of where
it was. Certificate pictured in Krokhin, “Dubl.” - AC, APR, 1 April 1974, vol. 1, p. 8.
- Molodtsov, “Opyt.”
- AC, Aryeh Shalev testimony, Part 2, pp. 101–2.
- Reuters, Davar, 4 March 1973, p. 2.
- Moshe Maoz, Asad the Sphinx of Damascus: A Political Biography, London: Weidenfeld
and Nicholson, 1988, p. 166: “There is no good information about contacts between Syria
and Eg ypt in early 1973, but it is known that such contacts to coordinate war moves were
already then in progress.” - G. Pernavsky (ed.), Arabo-izrail’skie voyny: Arabsky vzglyad, Moscow: Eksmo-Yauza, 2008,