NOTES
pp. [353–360]^
- Minutes of bipartisan leadership meeting, 27 November 1973, FRUS N-XXV, no. 360.
- NSC/JCS Meeting, 24/25 October 1973, FRUS N-XXV, no. 269; emphasis in
original.
EPILOGUE: SO WHAT WENT WRONG, AND WHEN?
- Heikal, Road to Ramadan, pp. 216–26.
- Badry, Ramadan War, pp. 73, 94.
- Malashenko, Vspominaya, p. 265. He may, however, have been out of the loop in respect
of Eg ypt by 1973, when the Soviets were evidently aware at least of the ultimate opera-
tion’s codename, if not its limited objectives. An intelligence report on 8 October stated
that “At 1400 hours on 6 October, armed forces of the Arab Republic of Eg ypt started
operation High Minarets.” Presenter-read excerpt of a top-secret letter from the head of
No. 3 Directorate to the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate, Moscow, General
Staff, 8 October 1973. Quoted 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. 277–8.
- Zolotarev et al., Rossiya, p. 202.
- Dashkov and Golotyuk, “Arabo-izrail’sky konflikt.”
- Oleg Grinevsky, Tainy Sovetskoy Diplomatii, Moscow: Vagrius, 2000, pp. 11–12; empha-
sis added. - Embassy Cairo to State Department, 5 May 1974, https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/
cables/1974CAIRO02830_b.html; 1 June 1974, https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/
cables/1974CAIRO03775_b.html; MA, p. 10, no. 45. - “Artek-74,” http://artek-romashka.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=1449 (no longer
accessible). - MA, p. 100, no. 442.
- MA, p. 104, no. 448. In February 1976, shortly before his service at the Eg yptian presi-
dency ended, Ashraf Marwan “as Syrians claim, lied to them about the contents of the
Israeli–Eg yptian negotiations.” Embassy Damascus to State Department, 14 February
1976, https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1976DAMASC00837_b.html - Grinevsky, Tainy Sovetskoy Diplomatii, pp. 52–3, 58–61.
- “Commentator in Soviet Derides Carter’s Effort” and David Shipler, “Soviet Says US is
Using Treaty to Bolster Influence,” NYT, 15 and 16 March 1979. - AP, “Soviets Blast Mideast Pact,” Daily Press (Utica, NY), 15 March 1979, p. 2; AP, “Soviets
Key to Mideast Settlement?,” Herald-Statesman (Yonkers, NY), 25 March 1979, p. B1. - MA, p. 9, no. 42.
- MA, p. 10, no. 45.
- “Soviet Names Envoy to Cairo,” NYT, 7 July 1984; “Sadat Says U.S. Buys Soviet Arms in
Eg ypt for Afghan Rebels,” NYT, 23 September 1981. - Authors’ notes from the ceremony.