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- Zhirokhov and Nicolle, “Unknown Heroes,” Part 2.
- Temirova and Shunevich, “Vo vremya voyny.” Mishchenko was a colonel when interviewed
in 2001. - This interpreter was sent to Syria under similar procedures. Mikhail Razinkov, “Siriya:
Goryachiy oktyabr’ 1973 goda,” 9 September 2009, http://artofwar.ru/r/razinkow_m_w/
text_0020.shtml - Gefele, “Napishi.”
- “It was especially chic for majors and colonels to wear a Soviet-uniform shirt and tie under
the tunic.” Boris Krokhin, “Zapiski ‘Khabira’. Blizhniy Vostok ot Voyny i do Voyny: Glazami
Sovetskogo Ofitsera,” Argumenty Nedeli, 45, 79 (7 November 2007), http://argumenti.
ru/history/n106/36060 - Igor’ Vakhtin, “Simfonichesky kontsert s vostochnym aktsentom,” http://clubvi.ru/
news/2014/06/16/remember/75%20vahtin/ - Zhirokhov and Nicolle, “Unknown Heroes,” Part 2.
- Interviewed in Tereshchenko, “Egiptyanin.”
- Ol’ga Il’inskaya, “Voyna prizrakov,” Prem’er, 49 (Cherepovets, Russia) (5 December 2001).
- As decribed both by an air defense serviceman (Moiseenkov, “Soldat iz Kazakhstana”) and
a ground crewman at Beni Suef airbase (Oleg Yur’ev, “Ogon’ na blizhnem vostoke,”
LG-Zarechny, 23 (Kuznetsk, Russia) (2006). - Zolotarev et al., Rossiya, p. 193.
- Col. Stanislav V. Gribanov, Az vozdam, Moscow: Voyennoye Izdatel’stvo, 1998, p. 309.
This book is a virulent anti-Semitic tract published by a military institution. - Nastenko, “Aviatsiya v Egipte,” pp. 58–9.
- Gordon, Thirty Hours, p. 73: IAF website for February 1970, http://www.iaf.org.il/838-
7142-he/IAF.aspx - Hagger, Libyan Revolution, p. 75. He dates his arrival in Eg ypt the same day as the factory
bombing at Abu Zaabal, 12 February, and his missile incident a few days later. He was
staying at “a cheap hotel” on the Alexandria waterfront where “all the other guests were
Russians.” - Smirnov, “O podgotovke,” p. 41.
- Lt-Gen. Alexey Y. Kostin, “Pamyat’ khranit,” in Safonov et al., Grif, p. 100.
- Zolotarev et al., Rossiya, p. 192.
- Interviewed in Il’inskaya, “Voyna prizrakov.”
- Youngstown Vindicator (OH), 2 February 1970, p. 11.
- Korn, Stalemate, p. 181.
- Dave McManis, “Mid-air Collision between US and Soviet Aircraft,” 11 March 1970.
NARA, NSC country files, USSR, vol. VII, box 711. - Neither was a fatal collision between two Soviet MiG-21s in March 1971, which is known
only from the journal of Kutakhov’s deputy. Col.-Gen. Nikolay Kamanin, Skryty Kosmos,
Moscow: Infortekst-IF, 1995–7, 4 vols., vol. 4, p. 247, http://airport-krr.ucoz.ru/
index/0–4465 - SAR, 20 March 1970, no. 53, pp. 138–9. Dobrynin’s report (no. 54, pp. 139–40) gives