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category: "Intelligence & Government"
tags:
  - Person
  - CIA
  - Israel
  - Soviet
summary: "Deputy assistant secretary of defense for intelligence who assessed Soviet intentions during the 1973 Yom Kippur War nuclear alert."
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Patrick J. Parker served as the deputy assistant secretary of defense for intelligence. He recalled a consensus among senior intelligence officials in the [[Pentagon]] that the Soviets were "understandably frightened of the situation and eager to contain it" during the 1973 [[Yom Kippur War]], specifically regarding the alleged Soviet warhead shipment to [[Egypt]].[^1]

### Footnotes

[^1]: Hersh, Seymour M. *The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy*. Random House, 1991. Chapter 17.