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influence, with preference for the former. “The Soviet Union and the October War,” in
Siniver, October 1973 War, pp. 101–3.- Quandt, Soviet Policy, p. 19n17, giving detailed contemporary calculations of the flights
and tonnage. - Quandt and Donald Stukel of the NSC staff to Kissinger, 8 October 1973. FRUS N-XXV,
no. 129. - Minutes of WSAG meeting, 8 October 1973, FRUS N-XXV, no. 131.
- Sonnenfeldt to Kissinger, 10 October 1973, FRUS N-XXV, no. 142.
- Sonnenfeldt to Kissinger, “Aspects of the Middle East War,” 13 October 1973, FRUS
N-XV, no. 170. On 7 October, CIA chief Colby still considered that the Soviets’ “pull-
out instructions were issued on October 3. ... They were either told there was going to be
trouble, or at least they got a very hard tip.” Minutes of WSAG meeting, 7 October 1973,
FRUS N-XXV, no. 121. - US Interests Section, Cairo to secretary of state, 11 October 1973, https://wikileaks.org/
plusd/cables/1973CAIRO03054_b.html - AC, APR, p. 98.
- Rozin, “Voyna ‘sudnogo dnya’ 1973g.”; thesis, “Blizhnevostochnyi konflikt 1973 goda,”
submitted at Moscow State University by “Sergey” (surname withheld), undated (before
2001), p. 37. http://www.btvt.by.ru/73.htm (now inaccessible). - This document was issued at the level of the Southern Command and so reflects informa-
tion gathered even earlier by Military Intelligence. AC, final report, vol. 4, p. 1265. - Golan, Soviet Policies, p. 87; Zolotarev et al., Rossiya, p. 201. Goldstein and Zhukov also
put the beginning of resupply at 9^ October, but this is based only on Zumwalt’s earlier
writing, and they reconcile it with the Israeli naval attack on 11 October that sank a Soviet
freighter in a Syrian port by suggesting—also based on previous US sources—that it had
sailed before the major resupply effort (at notes 119 and 132). The voyage to Syria took
three days, to Eg ypt presumably somewhat longer; Latypov, “V efire.” - Vasiliev, Rossiya na Blizhnem i Srednem Vostoke, pp. 111–12.
- Quandt, Soviet Policy, p. 22n23. Such origin of some shipments is confirmed by Bulgarian
documents that describe an “urgent sea and air bridge” to the Middle East codenamed
“Operation Danube,” beginning on 11 October. However, even if this date is accurate,
delivery of “more than 5,000 tons of armaments, ammunition and equipment on behalf
of Poland” via Bulgarian Black Sea ports indicates an earlier start. Baev, “Bulgaria and the
Middle East Conflict,” pp. 37–8. - Andrey Pochtarev, “Orden za ‘amerikantsa,’” Krasnaya Zvezda, 28 February 2002, http://
old.redstar.ru/2002/02/28_02/2_02.html - Bykov, interviewed in “TV Profiles, Shows Lifetime Work of Top Russian Missile Designer,”
Moscow Channel 1 TV, 23 May 2003; transcribed in English, Russian Military and
Security Media Coverage 2326, 2 (17 June 2003), https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/
RMSMC/conversations/messages/2351 - Shazly, Crossing, pp. 177–8.
- AC, final report, Part 1, p. 136; testimony of Tzvi Bar, pp. 54–6, 59–60; testimony of
Siman-Tov Binyamin, p. 19.