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- Walsh to Bundy, 15 June 1967.
- Lord Chalfont, “How Israel Fits in to the Jigsaw of Soviet Power,” Times (London),
4 August 1975, p. 12. - This turned out to be fighting yesterday’s war, as the Israelis never repeated the attack on
active airbases. But the hardened shelters’ strength was proved when a fully armed aircraft
exploded inside and caused only minor structural damage. Col. Boris A. Abramov, Goluboe
nebo Egipta, Moscow: Patriot, 2008, pp. 36–7. - Lt-Col. K.M. Molodtsov, “Opyt boevogo primeneniya RTV PVO Egipta v 1968–1972gg,”
VKO, 2005, http://www.vko.ru/biblioteka/opyt-boevogo-primeneniya-rtv-pvo-egipta-v-
1968-1972-gg - Egorin, Egipet, p. 175.
- Interview with former Engineer-Major Mikhail Rozman, Nahariyya, Israel, 24 January
2008. He related that a general who visited his base connected the alert with Israel’s vic-
tory in “the three-day war,” indicating that the Soviets considered Eg ypt the main arena. - Mission at the United Nations to the Department of State, 26 October 1967, FRUS J-XI X ,
no. 491. Either Eban or US Ambassador Arthur Goldberg, who reported the statement,
may have confused “the Swedes” with Finland, which represented Soviet interests in Israel
after the severance of relations on 10 June. - These bombers were erroneously identified as Tu-95s in Foxbats (p. 136). For a correction
and additional sources, see Ginor and Remez, “Soviet Initiative.” - Maj.-Gen. Vladimir A. Zolotarev et al. (eds), Rossiya (SSSR) v lokal’nykh voynakh i voy-
ennykh konfliktakh vtoroi poloviny XX veka, Moscow: Institute of Military History, 2000,
p. 185. Unless this reference misdates the Soviet Tu-16s’ publicized arrival on 3 December,
it is the first disclosure of this earlier visit. It was not announced, and as the nearby Cairo
International Airport was still closed, it was not observed by the Western press. - Mikhail Zhirokhov and David Nicolle, “The Unknown Heroes: Soviet Pilots in the Middle
East 1955–1970,” Group 73 Historians. Part 2, http://group73historians.com/grou-
p73historians/2013–03–16–12–04–49/189. The English version on an Arabic website
is extremely garbled. A shorter version of the same account that appears in Ostroumov’s
own book, Lt-Gen. Nikolay Ostroumov, Ot letchika-istrebitelya do generala aviatsii: V gody
voyny i v mirnoe vremya 1936–1979, Moscow: Tsentrpoligraf, 2010, accessible at http://
bookz.ru/authors/Nikolay-ostroumov/ot-let4i_786.html (p. 10 of the online text), also
seems confused; he was almost 100 at the time of publication. - Heikal (Road to Ramadan, p. 43) states incorrectly that “Zakharov had arrived with
Podgorny,” and this appears to have been copied widely even though some contemporary
reports did distinguish between their delegations; UPI, “Soviet Prexy in Cairo for Military
Ta l k ,” News-Sentinel (Lodi, CA), 22 June 1967, p. 21. - Akopov, transcript, p. 9.
- Circular from Gromyko to ambassadors in several People’s Democracies for verbal relay
to the heads of state, 13 June 1967. Naumkin et al., Blizhnevostochnyy konflikt, vol. 2, doc-
ument no. 258, pp. 581–6. - Henry Shapiro, UPI Moscow, “Kosygin Woos Charlie’s Aid in Fight on Israel,” Mid-Cities
Daily News (Texas), 16 June 1967, p. 2.