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Deputy assistant secretary of defense for intelligence who assessed Soviet intentions during the 1973 Yom Kippur War nuclear alert. |
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
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Hersh, Seymour M. The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy. Random House, 1991. Chapter 17. ↩︎