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In 1990, debriefed Jewish new immigrants to Israel that had been in the Soviet military reported, contrary to previous public perception, that Korean Airlines Flight 007carrying 269 passengers and crew, shot down by the Soviets off Sakhalin Island on Sept. 1, 1983, had come down safely in the waters of the Tatar Straits. Other informants reported  that passengers were taken captive, including passenger Congressman Larry McDonald of Georgia.These reports were conveyed to Senator Jesse Helms, the ranking minority (Republican) member of the Committeee on Foreign Relations.  

In 1990, debriefed Jewish new immigrants to Israel that had been in the Soviet military reported, contrary to previous public perception, that [[Korean Airlines Flight 007]] carrying 269 passengers and crew, shot down by the Soviets off Sakhalin Island on Sept. 1, 1983, had come down safely in the waters of the Tatar Straits. Other informants reported  that passengers were taken captive, including passenger Congressman Larry McDonald of Georgia.These reports were conveyed to Senator Jesse Helms, the ranking minority (Republican) member of the Committeee on Foreign Relations.  

Helms requested the CIA to evaluate the evidence coming from Israel. Crucial evidence was verified by the CIA and the Committee drafted the 1991 Republican Staff Study on KAL 007 [http://www.rescue007.org/republican_staff_study.htm] with heavy CIA input. The report would conclude, "KAL-007 PROBABLY DITCHED SUCCESSFULLY, THERE MAY HAVE BEEN SURVIVORS, THE SOVIETS HAVE BEEN LYING MASSIVELY, AND DIPLOMATIC EFFORTS NEED TO BE MADE TO RETURN THE POSSIBLE SURVIVORS".  Here is the Feb. 11, 1992 letter of Admiral Bud Nance [http://www.rescue007.org/nance_letter.htm], Chief of Staff under Helms on the Committee, to the director of the Israel Research Center for Prisons, Psych-Prisons, and Forced Labor Concentration Camps of the U.S.S.R. affirming partial but crucial confirmation of the information by the CIA and also affirming that it was due to this CIA-confirmed information that Helms had written a letter (Dec. 10, 1991) to Boris Yeltsin, requesting the Russian real time military communications of the shootdown, and information about survivors, including location of camps, and information in particular about Congressman Larry McDonald. Here is Helms' letter to Yeltsin [http://www.rescue007.org/helms_letter.htm]

Helms requested the CIA to evaluate the evidence coming from Israel. Crucial evidence was verified by the CIA and the Committee drafted the 1991 Republican Staff Study on KAL 007 [http://www.rescue007.org/republican_staff_study.htm] with heavy CIA input. The report would conclude, "KAL-007 PROBABLY DITCHED SUCCESSFULLY, THERE MAY HAVE BEEN SURVIVORS, THE SOVIETS HAVE BEEN LYING MASSIVELY, AND DIPLOMATIC EFFORTS NEED TO BE MADE TO RETURN THE POSSIBLE SURVIVORS".  Here is the Feb. 11, 1992 letter of Admiral Bud Nance [http://www.rescue007.org/nance_letter.htm], Chief of Staff under Helms on the Committee, to the director of the Israel Research Center for Prisons, Psych-Prisons, and Forced Labor Concentration Camps of the U.S.S.R. affirming partial but crucial confirmation of the information by the CIA and also affirming that it was due to this CIA-confirmed information that Helms had written a letter (Dec. 10, 1991) to Boris Yeltsin, requesting the Russian real time military communications of the shootdown, and information about survivors, including location of camps, and information in particular about Congressman Larry McDonald. Here is Helms' letter to Yeltsin [http://www.rescue007.org/helms_letter.htm]

On Jan. 8. 1993, Yeltsin would respond by handing over to the International Civil Aviation Organization of the U.N. the requested military communications, the vaunted Black Box tapes from the flight which the Soviets for the previous 10 years had denied having recovered (but avoided all mention of passenger survival). The National Security Agency was also involved in the supply of information  but it was the CIA which was the primary intelligence agency interfacing with Helms and the Committee on Foreign Relations.

On Jan. 8. 1993, Yeltsin would respond by handing over to the International Civil Aviation Organization of the U.N. the requested military communications, the vaunted Black Box tapes from the flight which the Soviets for the previous 10 years had denied having recovered (but avoided all mention of passenger survival). The National Security Agency was also involved in the supply of information  but it was the CIA which was the primary intelligence agency interfacing with Helms and the Committee on Foreign Relations.