[Jerusalem Post] David Horovitz - The chief spokesman of the Russian Air Force, Col. Aleksandr V. Drobyshevsky, has confirmed in writing for the first time that Soviet pilots in MiG-25 "Foxbat" aircraft flew highly provocative sorties over Israel's nuclear facility at Dimona in May 1967, just prior to the Six-Day War. Gideon Remez and Isabello Ginor co-wrote the recent book Foxbats over Dimona, which asserts that the Soviet Union deliberately engineered the war to create the conditions in which Israel's nuclear program could be destroyed. Soviet nuclear-missile submarines were said to have been poised off Israel's shore, ready to strike. The Soviets were also said to have geared up for a naval landing on Israel's beaches.
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