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course of duty” on 6 March 1970. Contemporary press reports about their funerals did
not even mention their IAF affiliation; Ma’ariv, 8 March 1970, p. 3 and 9 March, p. 7.
The IAF also withheld the model of the plane shot down on 2 April (as against three MiG-
21s), but the Syrians exhibited an F-4 tail. Eli Landau, Ma’ariv, 3 April 1970, p. 2. The
crewmwen were captured and not returned until 1974.- Spector, Loud and Clear, p. 198.
- On 13 July, that is before the next Phantom was lost on 18 July, US intelligence was quoted
that Israel had lost five F-4s in combat alone, two more than admitted by the Israelis.
“Secret Jets to Israel Hinted,” Palm Beach Post, 13 July 1970, pp. 1, 5. - Hod, interviewed by Yaqir Elqariv and Yaron Katz, Heyl ha-Avir (IAF Magazine), 140
( June 1984), p. 18. - Gordon, Thirty Hours, p. 87.
- Korn, Stalemate, p. 247, based on an interview with Bergus.
- Nixon approved supply of the EW pods two days after Meir requested them urgently on
2 July, that is, after the first two Phantoms were shot down. Quandt, Decade of Decisions,
p. 101n43. - Gordon, Thirty Hours, p. 87.
- Ma’ariv, 9 July 1970, p. 4.
- SAR, no. 71, p. 182; emphasis added.
- Embassy in the Soviet Union to Department of State, 11 July 1970, FRUS N-XII, no. 180.
Note 1 clarifies that Kissinger approved the protest. - AP, “Nasser Flies Home after Soviet Talks,” Gazette (Niagara Falls, NY), 17 July 1970,
p. 1; Davar, 19 July 1970, p. 3. - He may have attempted to mislead the Soviets, assuming they would learn of his remark
though the targets he mentioned were censored from local press reports. Naphtali Lau-
Lavie, Balaam’s Prophecy: Eyewitness to History, 1939–1989, Cranbury, NJ: Cornwall
Books, 1998, p. 261; Davar, 17 July 1970, p. 1. - AN MIA MYSTERY AND SOVIET INTELLIGENCE METHODS
- Charts, painting and photo of wreckage at http://www.hubara-rus.ru/kavkaz3.
html#18.07.70 - Lt-Gen. Dani Halutz, Straightforward, Tel Aviv: Yedi’ot Ahronot-Hemed, 2010, p. 63. A
future IAF commander and IDF chief of staff, he was no. 4 in Hetz’s formation. - Ma’ariv, 19 July 1970, p. 3.
- Shalom, Phantoms, vol. 2, pp. 974–1002, 1144n42.
- Ma’ariv, 20 July 1970, p. 3.
- Menahem Eini, “Hetz Nafal,” in Meirav Halperin and Aharon Lapidot (eds), G Suit: Pages
in the Log Book of the Israel Air Force, Tel Aviv: Ministry of Defense Publishing, 1987, p. 68.
Merom (Ha-Hatashah, p. 56) claims that Hetz tried to eject but was trapped in the cock-
pit. This agrees with the Russian version, but the account is unsourced and there is no indi-
cation how anyone but Hetz could provide it. - Valery Yaremenko, “Sovetsko-Egipetskoe voyennoe sotrudnichestvo nakanune i v khode