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route from the Northern Fleet to the Black Sea in May 1967, when it was ordered to
remain in the Mediterranean, and took on board a landing party of naval cadets from the
Eskadra’s flagship.- Reuters, in The Phoenix (Saskatoon, SK), 8 July 1967, p. 2 (an AP report on the same page
tells of Eshkol denigrating Dayan and praising Rabin). - Yosef Harif, Ma’ariv, 10 July 1967, p. 3.
- [Gideon] Rafael, Israel UN Mission, to Foreign Ministry, 9 July 1967, ISA HZ-4078/7
- [Moshe] Bitan, Foreign Ministry Jerusalem to [Avraham] Harman, ambassador in
Washington, 10 July 1967, ISA HZ-4078/7. - Dan Pattir, Israeli embassy, Washington to Foreign Ministry, 11 July 1967, ISA HZ-4083/8.
- Ma’ariv, 21 July 1967, p. 1; emphasis added. The ninth vessel, listed elsewhere as a main-
tenance ship, evidently was detached from Kasatonov’s command near Crete to ferry a
group of staff officers to Eg ypt. - UPI, “Soviets Beef Up Middle East Navy,” Star-News (Wilmington, NC), 22 July 1967,
p. 1. - Horst Pommerening, West German delegate at a NATO Middle East experts’ meeting,
quoted in Nitzan Hadas, Israeli embassy, Bonn, to Foreign Ministry, 27 May 1968, ISA
HZ-4221/17. - R.W. Daly (ed.), Soviet Sea Power, Washington: CSIS and New York: Dunellen, 1969,
pp. 3, 59; emphasis added. “LSM (landing ship, medium)” is the US appellation of the
Soviet SDK.The book presents the conclusions of a panel, which were clearly aimed to
support US Navy lobbying for newer ships and reinforcement of the Sixth Fleet. Not all
the panelists agreed; e.g. Curt Gastgeyer (p. 112) suggested that the Soviet goal was ‘estab-
lishing a presence’ rather than ‘control.’” - Zaborsky, “Sovetskaya Sredizemnomorskaya Eskadra”; Mallin, “Boevye sluzhby.”
- Telephone interview with Yury Khripunkov, Donetsk (Ukraine), August 1999. Khripunkov,
in 1967 a lieutenant and the gunnery officer of a frigate (SKR) in the Mediterranean, was
tasked with leading a landing party into Haifa port as part of the Soviets’ abortive inter-
vention during the Six-Day War (Foxbats, pp. 83–4, 150–2). Later promoted to gunnery
officer of a three-ship flotilla, he spoke of several subsequent tours of duty in Port Said.
His description here clearly refers to the immediate postwar period, as there is daylight at
03:45 only around the summer solstice on 21 June. - THE SOVIET PRESENCE IS FORMALIZED AND EXPANDED
- Hershberg, Aftermath, pp. 15, 18; Lashchenko’s name is garbled to “Moshchenko.” Following
quotations of Lashchenko are from “Zapiski,” pp. 44–52; emphases added. - V.P. Klimentov, “God s tankistami vtoroy polevoy armii,” in Meyer et al., To g d a, pp. 194–
5; Mark Kramer, “New Evidence on Soviet Decision-Making and the 1956 Polish and
Hungarian Crises,” Cold War International History Project Bulletin, 8 (1996), pp. 358–75,
http://www.wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/CWIHPBulletin8–9_p6.pdf - Nikolay Ufarkin, “Lashchenko, Petr Nikolaevich,” http://www.warheroes.ru/hero/hero.
asp?Hero_id=1881; “Lashchenko, Petr Nikolaevich,” The Great Soviet Encyclopedia