Item FIFTY YEARS WAR 4/4 - Transcript of interview, 1997, with General Ahmed Fakher, Egyptian Army

Typescript transcript of filmed interview with Gen Ahmed Fakher, Egyptian Army, commenting on theEgyptian response to Soviet intelligence reports of Israeli military concentration on the Syrian border and participation in the Egyptian military mission to Moscow, (May 1967); preparation of Egyptian forces for the Six Day War, Jun 1967; his role in an Egyptian efforts to obtain missiles from the USSR; visit of Anwar Sadat to Moscow, (1972); the expulsion of Soviet military consultants and their families from Egypt (Jul 1972); Egyptian operations during the Yom Kippur War (1973); and the Egyptian public response to signing of Camp David peace agreement (Sep 1978). 31pp