NOTES
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- Military correspondent, Ma’ariv, 6 May 1970, p. 18.
- Zhirokhov, Rozhdennye Voynoy, Chapter 6. He apparently misdates this operation: Israel
reported an auxiliary naval vessel sunk and a landing craft damaged by Eg yptian frogmen
on 7 February 1970. Zhirokhov appears to suggest that the Soviets would never attack a
civilian ship, which is borne out by Kryshtob, below. In a previous raid on Eilat on
16 November 1969, two merchant ships (claimed by the Eg yptians as naval) were
damaged. - Ma’ariv, 26 July 1970, p. 3.
- Shalom, Phantoms, vol. 2, p. 1011. A Soviet rear-admiral’s pennant was spotted on a land-
ing vessel in Port Said on 10 June; [Shimshon] Arad, Israeli embassy, The Hague, to Foreign
Ministry, 18 June 1970. Jerusalem responded that the officer might have come to survey
the bombing damage. Yosef Hadas, Research Department, to Hague embassy, 19 June
1970, both in ISA HZ-4605/2. - Zak, Forty Years’ Dialogue, p. 177. As 7 June was a Sunday when there are no plenary
Knesset sessions, Eban’s statement must have been made to the closed Defense and Foreign
Affairs Committee. It was not reported in the next day’s press. Evidently to sidestep cen-
sorship, on Tuesday Zak alluded in his column (Ma’ariv, 9 June 1970, p. 9) to such a warn-
ing over an incident in “an Eg yptian harbor” and wrote that “Israel published nothing
about it, trying to make the Russians understand we are not interested in a confrontation
with them.” Dayan’s 1975 statement is quoted on p. 180. - Palit, Return to Sinai, p. 14.
- SAR, no. 60, p. 152n1.
- SAR, no. 62, p. 157n7.
- SAR, no. 59 and no. 60n2, pp. 148–9, 152.
- Kissinger, White House Years, p. 577.
- SAR, no. 62, pp. 156–7.
- SAR, no. 59, pp. 148–9n3.
- SAR, no. 63, p. 162.
- Radio Moscow program “This Week,” quoted by Shmu’el Segev, Ma’ariv, 23 June 1970,
p. 9. - Nastenko, “Aviatsiya v Egipte,” pp. 58–9, 64; Zhirokhov, Rozhdennye Voynoy, Chapter 6.
- Zhirokhov, “Soviet Pilots,” Part 2.
- Shalom, Phantoms, vol. 2, p. 1029. This may be the origin of a claim made in 1989 by a
former Soviet pilot, who had served in Eg ypt in 1970, to an Israeli diplomat that “Soviet
pilots had downed Israeli aircraft.” Aryeh Levin, Envoy to Moscow: Memoirs of an Israeli
Ambassador 1988–92, London: Frank Cass, 1996, p. 202. - Aleksandr Akimenkov, Na poroge inogo mira, Moscow: Aviko, 2002, p. 17.
- “A FAMOUS INDISCRETION” AS THE AIR WAR PEAKS
- John le Carré, The Secret Pilgrim, New York: Knopf, 1990 (p. 127, Ballantine paperback
edition). - Egyptian Gazette, 19 July 1972, cited in Rubinstein, Red Star, p. 189.