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- Lyndon B. Johnson, The Vantage Point: Perspectives of the Presidency, 1963–1969, New
York: Holt, 1971, p. 483. - Following quotations of Shelest are from Spravzhniy sud istorii shche poperedu, Kiev:
Geneza, 2003, pp. 241–2. - Mlechin, Stalin, pp. 437–8.
- Documentation of the deliberations and proposal were formally released only in June
2012; ISA dossier at http://www.archives.gov.il. Communicated to the United States for
transmittal to Eg ypt and Syria, the proposal went unanswered and was implicitly rejected
by the Arab summit conference at Khartoum on 2 September. It was formally superseded
when the Israeli cabinet on 31 October 1968 resolved that in any accommodation with
Eg ypt it would retain Sharm el-Sheikh and a strip connecting it with Eilat. - Kimche, Last Option, p. 9.
- Galili to Levavi, 20 June 1967, ISA HZ-4083/2.
- Dev Murarka, “Another Time ...,” Spectator, 19 June 1967, p. 701.
- “Tomas Schuman,” World Thought Police, Los Angeles: Almanac, 1985, pp. 36–8, https://
archive.org/stream/BezmenovWorldThoughtPolice1986/World_ThoughtPolice-Tomas
Schuman-1986–68pgs-SOV-POL.sml_djvu.txt. The actual writer was Yury Bezmenov, a
former press officer of the Soviet embassy in India, who defected to the West in 1970;
http://uselessdissident.blogspot.co.il/2008/11/interview-with-yuri-bezmenov.html - Foxbats, pp. 77, 100, 171, 172, 198, 210.
- Aleksandr Bovin, XX vek kak zhizn’, Moscow: Zakharov, 2003, p. 160.
- The Economist, translated in Ma’ariv, 3 July 1967, p. 9.
- V. Yu. Markovsky, “‘My gotovili voynu,’” first published in Aerohobby magazine before
2001, reproduced at http://www.foxbat.ru/article/mig25/mig25_1.htm - Francis Fukuyama, “Soviet Military Power in the Middle East,” in Steven L. Spiegel, Mark
A. Heller, and Jacob Goldberg (eds), The Soviet–American Competition in the Middle East,
Lexington, MA: Lexington Press, 1988, pp. 163–4. - According to Czechoslovak General Maj.-Gen. Jan Šejna, who defected in 1968. Lord
Chalfont, London Times, 4 August 1975, p. 12. - The Grechko–Amer plan was first described in 1975, in a brilliant analysis of the sources
then available, by Avraham Ben-Tzur in Gormim Sovietim, which is widely quoted in
Foxbats. - Foxbats, pp. 95–7.
- Israelyan, in Richard Parker (ed.), The Six-Day War: A Retrospective, Gainesville: University
of Florida Press, 1996, p. 61. - Unattributed assertion in Michael Oren, Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of
the Modern Middle East, New York: Oxford University Press, 2002, p. 299, contradicted
by Chuvakhin’s biography at http://www.proza.ru/2009/03/28/326. The two ambassa-
dors’ “ouster” was interpreted at the time as part of a move by Kosygin to take advantage
of their failure and regain control of the diplomatic service from KGB operatives. Der
Spiegel, translated in Ma’ariv, 4 July 1967, p. 9. Former KGB General Pavel Sudoplatov
names Pozhidaev as attached to the Paris rezidentura as early as 1940. Raznye dni taynoy