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(1979), http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Lashchenko,+Petr+Nikolaevich.
The latter entry omits his service in both Hungary and Eg ypt.- Klimentov, “God s tankistami vtoroy polevoy armii,” pp. 194–5.
- CIA, “Views of Deputy UAR Prime Minister Zakariyah Muhiy al Din on His Power
Status,” 31 July 1967, http://www.foia.cia.gov/sites/default/files/document_conver-
sions/89801/DOC_0000095042.pdf. The assessment was repeated in “Comments by
Soviet Official on the Possible Renewal of Arab–Israel Hostilities,” 14 February 1968,
http://www.foia.cia.gov/sites/default/files/document_conversions/89801/
DOC_0000126888.pdf - Following quotations of Malashenko are from Vspominaya, pp. 227–67.
- Among others, between July and October the Eg yptian Army chief of staff and foreign
minister were in Moscow, and a Soviet deputy foreign minister in Cairo (Daniel Dishon
et al. (eds), Middle East Record, 1967, Jerusalem: Israel Universities Press, 1971, p. 25). - Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin, The Mitrokhin Archive: The KGB in Europe
and the West, London: Penguin, 2000, p. 17), identified Primakov as a KGB “co-optee”
codenamed Maksim. He later served as Middle East envoy for Gorbachev, then head of
foreign intelligence (SVR, 1991–6), foreign minister (1996–8) and prime minister (1998–
9) in post-Soviet Russia. - Ro’i and Morozov, June 1967, p. 353; emphasis added.
- The last sentence reproduces almost verbatim Lashchenko’s previously published memoir
(“Zapiski,” p. 45). - “The June Challenge,” Al-Ahram Weekly, 7 June 2007, http://weekly.ahram.org.
eg/2007/848/sc4.htm - Mohsen had been the field commander of Eg yptian forces in Sinai up to and during the
war; Gen. Mohamed Fawzi (called Muhammad Fawzy in this book), “Reflections on
Mistakes Made in Planning, Training, Equipping, and Organizing Eg yptian Combat
Formations prior to the 1967 Six-Day War,” Part III, http://www.thefreelibrary.com/
Eg yptian+General+Mohamed+Fawzi% 3A+
part+III%3A+reflections+on+mistakes...-a0314564926 - Badran was still imprisoned in December 1970, close to the cell where ten Israeli POWs
were held. He was allowed a radio receiver, which they were denied, and used to tune in
loudly to Israel Radio for their benefit. Amia Lieblich, Seasons of Captivity: The Inner
World of POWs, New York: New York University Press, 1994, p. 127. - Howeidy denied to the last that Amer had been assassinated, as persistent versions have
charged. - Semenov, “Ot Khrushcheva,” p. 133.
- “More on the Cairo Plot,” Jewish Observer and Near East Review (8 September 1967), p. 4.
- G.V. Karpov, “Vospominaniya sovetskogo voennogo sovetnika v Egipte,” in Filonik,
Komandirovka, p. 71. - There was speculation that Sokolov was intended to replace the older, unhealthy Zakharov
as chief of staff, but the date of the former’s promotion indicates that this was not a result of
the fiasco in the Six-Day War. When Zakharov was dispatched to Eg ypt on 16 June, Sokolov