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- Jack Anderson, “Nasser to Nixon,” Robesonian (Lamberton, NC), 2 October 1969, p. 9:
“Nixon’s reply ... didn’t go much beyond warm words and general assurances. Therefore
Nasser let it be known that the US reply was completely unacceptable.” No official record
has emerged yet of this exchange. - “A Few Rays of Hope in the Middle East,” Miami News, editorial, 26 September 1969,
p. 14-A. - Chazov, Zdorov’e i vlast’, p. 51.
- Sadat’s speech at Tanta in the Nile delta on 4 January 1971, as reported by Shmu’el Segev,
Ma’ariv, 5 January 1971, p. 2. - Reuters, “Nasser Pushes Purge,” Montreal Gazette, 19 Sept 1969, p. 1. On Ahmed Ismail’s
Soviet training, see T.N. Dupuy, Elusive Victory: The Arab–Israeli Wars, 1947–1974, New
York: Harper & Row, 1978, p. 388. - Kubersky, Egipet-69, Part 2, p. 41.
- A list of Soviet casualties names a Col. Vasily G. Korneyev as killed on 9 September but
describes him as the adviser to an air defense brigade; http://www.hubara-rus.ru/heroes.
html - Dayan may have referred to this incident when he spoke in 1975 about “a Soviet delega-
tion” that happened to be on the site of an Israeli raid in southern Eg ypt, and some of its
members were hit. “There were other Soviet casualties elsewhere, but none ... were inten-
tional.” Moshe Zak, Israel and the Soviet Union: A Forty Years’ Dialogue, Tel Aviv: Ma’ariv,
1988, pp. 179–80. The “radio-technical” adviser Molodtsov (“Opyt”) confirms that Israeli
tanks destroyed the installation, but does not mention Soviet casualties. - Platunov, “Provaly v pamyati.” Maj. Mikhail Antonov witnessed the two coffins being
loaded onto the transport plane that brought him to Cairo-West; Latypov, “O druzhbe.”
At the time, the Israelis counted over 100 Eg yptians killed but mentioned no Soviet casu-
alties. Only thirty years after the raid, its commander disclosed a “Russian colonel killed
at Zaafrana.” Col. Baruch “Pinko” Har’el in Shiryon (IDF Armored Corps Magazine),
January 1999, pp. 18–19, http://www.yadlashiryon.com/vf/ib_items/164/Shiryon_03.
pdf#page=18 - Col. Avraham Zohar, “‘Escort,’ ‘Raviv’: Peshitot be-hof mifratz Suez, September 1969,”
Ma’rakho t, 297 ( January 1985), pp. 15–23; http://maarachot.idf.il/PDF/FILES/
8/109358.pdf. Har’el’s article, whose title translates “we took no risks and destroyed every-
thing,” confirms that civilian or unidentified vehicles were also targeted—but does not
specify a bus. - A Skyhawk was shot down by cannon fire and the pilot bailed out but was never found;
his helmet later washed up on the Israeli-held shore. Shalom, Phantoms, vol. 1, pp. 428–
30. The first Phantoms had been delivered on 5 September, but Israel announced their
first combat action only on 22 October. - Parker, Politics of Miscalculation, p. 137 (unsourced).
- Chazov, Zdorov’e i vlast’, p. 53.
- Kirill Privalov, “Chelovek Kremlya,” Itogi, 14 June 2010, http://www.itogi.ru/spetzpro-
ekt2/2010/24/153297.html