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- McGillivray, “17 Hours of Terror in Mob-Ruled Cairo,” an “uncensored story following
his return from a month in Cairo,” describes Westerners being attacked on the night of
Nasser’s resignation. Edmonton Journal, 20 June 1967, p. 22. - For a detailed analysis of CIA performance, see Ginor and Remez, “Too Little.”
- Fred S. Hoffman, AP, “Reds Give Eg ypt 50 MiGs since War,” Hopkinsville Kentucky New
Era, 21 June 1967, p. 7; “Soviets May Send Newer Arms to Help Rebuild Eg ypt Forces,”
CSM, 23 June 1967, p. 5. - Marquis Childs, United Features Syndicate, “Johnson–Kosygin Summit Results Not
Productive,” Daily Times (Watertown, NY), 28 June 1967, p. 6. - John F. Walsh, executive secretary, Control Group, to McGeorge Bundy, White House,
15 June 1967. LBJ, box 15: Memos to President and White House. Emphasis in
original. - Col. Yury Makarenko, interviewed in Meyden, “Na rasstoyanii.”
- Interviewed in Viktoriya Gefele, “Napishi ty mne, mama, v Egipet,” Podrobnee (Yaroslavl’),
23 March 2003. Similar figures and descriptions are given by Viktor Rogozhinsky in “Kak
nash zemlyak v Egipte sluzhil,” Pavlogradskie Novosti (Ukraine), 14 November 2004,
http://pavlonews.info/news/categ_2/6218.html - Voronov, “Zhara”; Irina Temirova and Vladimir Shunevich, “Vo vremya voyny na Sinaye,
izrail’tyanye menyali egipetskikh plennykh na arbuzy,” Fakty i komentarii (Kiev),
26 December 2000. For comparison, a more modest Zaporozhets (the Soviet version of
a Fiat 600), cost 3,500 rubles or 700 foreign currency certificates; to save that much, an
interpreter had to forgo luxuries in Eg ypt. Petr Stavitsky, “Krylataya fraza,” website of
Military Language School alumni, 18 March 2011, http://www.clubvi.ru/news/
2011/03/18/bayki/6/. Lt-Col. Gumar Sagdutdinov, then a junior political officer who
served fourteen months in Syria including the 1973 war, saved enough to buy the export
version of the Moskvich. Timur Latypov, “O druzhbe, voyne i nefti,” Vremya i Dengi
(Kazan), 23 February 2006, http://www.e-vid.ru/index-m-192-6-63-article-12275 - Col. Linkov in Aleksandr Bondarenko, “Kak mariupol’tsy zashchishchali nebo Egipta,”
Priazovsky Rabochy (Mariupol, Ukraine), 4 March 2008, http://www.pr.ua/news.php?new=
5251&num=101 - Evgeny Lashenko interviewed in Sergey Komlev, “Voyna u Piramid,” Rech’ (Cherepovets,
Russia), 30 September 2005. - Mlechin, Stalin, pp. 437–8.
- Anatoly Chernyaev, The Diary of Anatoly S. Cheryaev, 1972, Washington: National
Security Archive, 2012, http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB379/
1972%20as%20of%20May%2024,%202012%20FINAL.pdf, p. 23. - Walsh to Bundy, 15 June 1967.
- Rubinstein, Red Star, pp. 13–14.
- Hal Ford, chief DD-I Special Research Staff, CIA, “The Growth of the Soviet Commitment
in the Middle East (Reference Title ESAU-XLIX),” January 1971, CIA FOIA website,
http://www.foia.cia.gov/sites/default/files/document_conversions/14/esau-48.pdf, sum-
mary at http://www.foia.cia.gov/sites/default/files/document_conversions/89801/
DOC_0000501068.pdf, p. 32 (in the summary).