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- Evgeny Poluektov, “Rabochaya situatsiya,” http://www.clubvi.ru/news/2013/01/12/pol-
uektov/. His account was submitted to a memoir competition held by the website of his
school’s alumni in 2012–13, and is written in the first person but subtitled “a story.” As
such, it might conflate several events and add fictionalized detail. For example, he describes
the flights as taking off from a gigantic Soviet airbase in Hungary, but not Tököl; rather,
he locates it at Székesfehérvár, southwest of Budapest. The only aviation site near this city
was a heliport at nearby Seregélyes, which did not have runways for fixed-wing craft.
Poluektov does refer to helicopters in numbers suitable for a heliborne desantnik (land-
ing ) regiment; http://wikimapia.org/27407007/Apron - Nastenko, “Aviatsiya v Egipte.” Poluektov likewise describes landing at Cairo-West dur-
ing an Israeli attack that he attributes to Skyhawks—which never operated around Cairo. - The altitude for the 4 November sortie is given as 700 feet. Cohen, Best Defense, p. 293.
- Col. Shim’on Yiftah, “Al tilim be-Mitzrayim,” Ma’arakhot, 217–18 (September 1971),
http://maarachot.idf.il/PDF/FILES/9/108389.pdf. - Zhirokhov and Nicolle, “Unknown Heroes,” Part 2.
- Stavitsky, “Krylataya fraza.” The author was of the class of ’73, so was still in an early stage
of his studies. In the summer of 1970 he spent several months at an Eg yptian aircraft repair
facility at Helwan. - AC, Ben-Porat testimony, p. 73.
- Gordon, Thirty Hours, pp. 104–6.
- Shalom, Phantoms, vol. 1, pp. 564–80.
- Igor’ Kulikov, “Kak izrail’tyane u egiptyan radar ukrali,” Soldat udachi, 1 (Moscow) (2000).
Kulikov was the interpreter for the Soviet adviser to the 3rd Mechanized Division, Maj.
Taras Panchenko. - Interviewed in Latypov, “O Druzhbe.” Antonov, a Second World War veteran, found his
old tank model T-34 still in use with his Eg yptian advisees. - Foreign Ministry Research Department to Europe 3 Department, Foreign Ministry,
25 January 1970, quoting US embassy official [H.H.] Stackhouse. ISA HZ-4604/5. Heikal
first broke the story on 23 January; Korn, Stalemate, p. 176. - The Israelis’ proud description of the P-12 as “state-of-the art” has been challenged in view
of its original introduction in the 1950s. However, the model was continually updated
into the 1970s, and the Ras Gharib station had continued functioning despite repeated
IAF bombings. Uri Milstein, Ma’ariv, 27 December 2015, http://www.maariv.co.il/news/
military/Article-519169 - Molodtsov, “Opyt.”
- Alizadeh, interview.
- Milton Friedman, a reporter with JTA “whose connections with the Israel Embassy are
known to Sedov,” reported their talk the same day and stressed that “Sedov repeated this
sentence several times.” Nir Baruch, Israel embassy, Washington, 6 January 1970, ISA
HZ-4604/5. - Robert S. Allen and John Goldsmith, “Inside Washington: Soviet General Commands
Eg ypt’s Suez Canal front,” News-Tribune (Rome, GA), 20 April 1970, p. 2. Allen was