The Soviet-Israeli War, 1967–1973. The USSR’s Military Intervention in the Egyptian-Israeli Conflict

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  1. Polmar, Spyplane, p. 167.

  2. A telegram from the embassy to the State Department on 13 August (FRUS N-E4,
    no. 274), is signed by Beam.

  3. Dayan, Story of My Life, p. 522.

  4. V. Vinogradov, Diplomatiya, pp. 147–8. “Going somewhere” is a Russian euphemism for
    going to the latrine.

  5. The chargé’s son, Ambassador Michael Klosson, told the authors that his late father left
    no papers that could throw light on the incident. Personal communication, 8 April 2013.

  6. Shlomo Ginossar, London, Davar, 13 August 1970, p. 1.

  7. Daigle, “Limits of Détente,” pp. 185–90.

  8. Dayan, Story of My Life, p. 522.

  9. Korn, Stalemate, p. 267, based on an interview with the attaché, Owen Zurhellen.

  10. Quoted by Haggai Eshed, Davar, 12 August 1970, p. 2.

  11. Gil Kessari, Ma’ariv, 12 August 1970, p. 2.

  12. “A Blow to the Mideast Truce,” Los Angeles Times, 12 August 1970, p. C6.

  13. Quandt, Decade of Decisions, p. 107.

  14. Dayan, Story of My Life, p. 522. Israeli delegates returned to the Jarring talks only on
    29 December.

  15. A total of twenty-nine missions were flown through 10 November, when due to Eg yptian
    protests the U-2s were replaced by less easily detectable SR-71s. The U-2 findings were
    complemented with data from US communications intercepts. Daigle, “Limits of Détente,”
    p. 189; Polmar, Spyplane, p. 167.

  16. Schueftan, Attrition, p. 354.

  17. “Scope of Pullout in Eg ypt Hazy,” Milwaukee Journal, 20 July 1972, pp. 1–2.

  18. UPI, “Sergey Vinogradov, 62, Dead,” NYT, 28 August 1970.

  19. Beam, Multiple Exposure, p. 248; embassy in the Soviet Union to Department of State,
    3 September 1970, FRUS N-XII, no. 201.

  20. Department of State to embassy in the Soviet Union, 5 September 1970, ibid., no. 203.

  21. Sonnenfeldt to Kissinger, 16 September 1970, ibid., no. 206.

  22. The Palestinians were only certified as ideologically progressive national-liberation forces,
    and adopted as Soviet protégés and instruments, after 1967. This began with the declaredly
    Marxist–Leninist PFLP, whose co-founder Wadia Haddad was recruited by the Soviets
    shortly after its formation in December 1967. The Mitrokhin Archive (p. 81, no. 65)
    names him as a KGB agent “since 1968,” as did a 1974 memo from Andropov to Brezhnev
    that was obtained and published by the authors; Isabella Ginor, Ha’aretz, 28 August 1992,
    pp. 1A, 2B. After Yasser Arafat’s Fatah established its leadership of the roof body, the
    Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Moscow moved belatedly to hedge its bets and
    counter Chinese competition, availing itself of Romania’s connections with Arafat. Lt-Gen.
    Ion Mihai Pacepa (former deputy head of Romanian foreign intelligence), “The Arafat I
    Know,” Wall Street Journal, 1 January 2002. The mass of evidence indicates, however, that
    Moscow embraced Arafat only after Nasser brought him to Moscow in July 1968. His
    Moscow University-trained associate and future president of the Palestinian Authority

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