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''':General Anatoly Kornukov (Commander of Sokol Airbase on Sakhalin'''):

''':General Anatoly Kornukov (Commander of Sokol Airbase on Sakhalin'''):

::''"Well, I understand, I do not understand the result, why is the target flying?  Missiles were fired.  Why is the target flying?  [obscenities] Well, what is happening?"''

 

'''::''"Well, I understand, I do not understand the result, why is the target flying?  Missiles were fired.  Why is the target flying?  [obscenities] Well, what is happening?"'''''

''':Lt. Col. Novoseletski''':

''':Lt. Col. Novoseletski''':

::''"Well, what is happening, what is the matter, who guided him in, he locked on, why didn’t he shoot it down?"''

 

'''::''"Well, what is happening, what is the matter, who guided him in, he locked on, why didn’t he shoot it down?"'''''

 

Debriefed former Soviet military men who had served on the Soviet maritime across from Sakhalin and Moneron and who had immigrated to Israel reported that the Soviet radar stations, including those at Komsomolsk-na-Amura and Edinka, tracked KAL 007 in its spiral descent until it was 1,000 feet above sea level (the point at which Soviet radar could not capture the aircraft due to curvature of the earth). This information was conveyed to the Minority Staff (Republican) under Senator Jesse Helms of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations which issued in its Republican Staff Report [draft] of 1991 <ref>http://www.rescue007.org/republican_staff_study.htm][http://www.rescue007.org/faq.htm#8</ref> this concluding statement - '''“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.”'''

Debriefed former Soviet military men who had served on the Soviet maritime across from Sakhalin and Moneron and who had immigrated to Israel reported that the Soviet radar stations, including those at Komsomolsk-na-Amura and Edinka, tracked KAL 007 in its spiral descent until it was 1,000 feet above sea level (the point at which Soviet radar could not capture the aircraft due to curvature of the earth). This information was conveyed to the Minority Staff (Republican) under Senator Jesse Helms of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations which issued in its Republican Staff Report [draft] of 1991 <ref>http://www.rescue007.org/republican_staff_study.htm][http://www.rescue007.org/faq.htm#8</ref> this concluding statement - '''“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.”'''