ISRAEL DOWNED FIVE MIGS IN '70 DOGFIGHT, BOOK CLAIMS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01350R000200690007-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 20, 2004
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: August 14, 1979
• Content Type: NSPR

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says there are strong indications the Israeli intelligence network, the book They also described the Israeli .re-
Soviet Union was responsible for the says, was the failure to predict the 1973 venge,. which began. when two Israeli.,'
mysterious 1968. disappearance of: an Is-
Yom Kippur war.". S'ayhawk jet fighters were attacked by,
If so, it says, the Israelis got revenge them Begin, then a member of the the Israelis set a trap.
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two years later when eight of their U.S.
supplied Phantom jets shot down five
Russian MiG-21s in- a dogfd`ght over the
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only a "remote possibility.". = _ . naissance mission," the book says.
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milita intelligence, insisted war was
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flown to them by defecting. pilots, the The CIA, which had thought war pos- cepted. Their Allots sighted 12
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Untold History of Israel,': by Jacques . ,well, beyond the Egyptians' capacity," nosedived into the fray."
Derogy and Hesi Carmel is permeated the authors said. Five Mies were downed; all Israeli,
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es of intelligence agencies in the Middle THE AUTHORS- connected the' disap- planes returned to base. A week later;
East. the. American CIA, Soviet KGB, . pearance of the 1,200-ton Israeli subma- Russian pilots were withdrawn from the ,
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Israeli Massad, Egyptian and: French rine Dakar-[Swordfish], on Jan. 26, 1968, Cana
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