Twenty-one years after the Egyptian bomb plot, America’s secretary of state brought it up in the Oval Office as a reason to distrust a new arrangement.
AMAN’s October 5, 1973 assessment described emergency deployments and Soviet evacuations, then assigned a low probability to an Egyptian attack. The invasion began the following afternoon.
A Soviet radar was worth taking home intact. In December 1969, Israeli commandos dismantled it in the dark and discovered their prize was dangerously heavy.
