NOTES
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- US embassy, London, to secretary of state, 11 November 1975, https://wikileaks.org/
plusd/cables/1975LONDON17330_b.html - Aviation Week, quoted by Shimshon Ofer, Davar, 23 April 1971, p. 10.
- UPI Cairo and NYT, in Davar, 26 March 1971, p. 1; Philip Benn, Ma’ariv, 25 March
1971, p. 1. - This is apparently a misidentification of the Su-15 “Flagon,” possibly caused by the fact
that this model, the MiG-23 and MiG-25 were all first displayed at the same air show in
July 1967. Ma’ariv, 4 April 1971, p. 2. - Philip Benn, Ma’ariv, 11 April 1971, p. 1.
- Eli Landau, Ma’ariv, 12 April 1971, p. 1.
- Ma’ariv, 12 April 1971, p. 1. Similar report in Davar, p. 1, quoting NYT and AP from
11 April. - Uri Dann, Ma’ariv, 12 April 1971, p. 9.
- Whetten, Canal War, p. 163.
- Polmar, Spyplane, p. 167. He puts this proposal in the context of the U-2 flights, but Israel
would hardly have proposed to the United States that it develop a counter to its own spy
plane. Another version holds that Peace Jack was begun in conjunction with General
Dynamics, but the State Department objected to developing and exporting an aircraft
with performance similar to the the SR-71 and offensive capability beyond anything in
the US inventory. The proposal was then modified to the unarmed RF-4X, but the USAF
withdrew from the project because a high-performance Phantom might jeopardize fund-
ing for the anticipated F-15—which the IAF would indeed use in the first shootdown of
a MiG-25 a decade later. But in the early 1970s, Israel settled for the conversion of several
F-4Es to camera-bearing F-4E(S). Jay Miller, “Peace Jack: An Enigma Exposed,” Air
International (UK), 29, 1 ( July 1985), pp. 18–23; Jewish virtual library: http://www.jew-
ishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/phantom.html - “Meeting between Ambassador Rabin and Dr. Kissinger,” 12. April 1971, NARA,
Alexander Haig’s Memcons, box 978, quoted in Vanetik and Shalom, “Helqo shel ha-bayit
ha-lavan,” p. 104. - Rabin, Pinqas sherut, vol. 2, p. 351.
- SAR, no. 143, p. 328.
- SAR, no. 145, pp. 330–1.
- SAR, no. 210, p. 490.
- Secretary of state to US embassy Tel Aviv, “Rabin and Sisco on MiG-23 Flight,” 12 October
1971, NARA NSC Files, country files, ME-Israel, box 609; Momyer, “Resume of My
Conversations with Hod.” - Rubtsov, memoir.
- Konstantin Polyakov and Andrey Kulyasov, Wings of Russia, Episode 18, “Spies: Watching
from Above,” Moscow 2007, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3TKjKDimIo (no
longer accessible). The authors thank Dirk Pohlmann for bringing this documentary to
our attention. - Bob Considine, “Russia’s Foxbat,” Recorder (Amsterdam, NY), 17 April 1971, p. 2.