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| | Senator Helms, along with Senator Steven Symms of Idaho and Congressman Carroll Hubbard Jr. of Kentucky, had traveled on KAL 015 fifteen minutes behind KAL 007, and had stopped at Anchorage airport, as did Larry McDonald on KAL 007, and had gotten off KAL 015. McDonald did not get off. Reports indicate that Helms had contemplated changing to KAL 007 to be with him but decided againt it. That near miss must have stayed with him as the outcome of the flight became apparent as KAL 015 arrived at Seoul Airport and KAL 007 did not. As he attended the 30th Year celebration of the U.S. Mutual Defense Treaty - and Larry Mcdonald did not. As the reports from Israel of survivors would come to his office 8 years later. As he would write to Yeltsin. As Yeltsin would comply with all the requests that Helms had made of him - excepting the fate of the passengers and crew, and especially, the sought after information about Larry McDonald. | | Senator Helms, along with Senator Steven Symms of Idaho and Congressman Carroll Hubbard Jr. of Kentucky, had traveled on KAL 015 fifteen minutes behind KAL 007, and had stopped at Anchorage airport, as did Larry McDonald on KAL 007, and had gotten off KAL 015. McDonald did not get off. Reports indicate that Helms had contemplated changing to KAL 007 to be with him but decided againt it. That near miss must have stayed with him as the outcome of the flight became apparent as KAL 015 arrived at Seoul Airport and KAL 007 did not. As he attended the 30th Year celebration of the U.S. Mutual Defense Treaty - and Larry Mcdonald did not. As the reports from Israel of survivors would come to his office 8 years later. As he would write to Yeltsin. As Yeltsin would comply with all the requests that Helms had made of him - excepting the fate of the passengers and crew, and especially, the sought after information about Larry McDonald. |
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| − | But one thing Helms could not forget and would speak of often, and mention in his letter to Boris Yeltsin, was a meeting at Anchorage airport while both KAL 007 and KAL 015 were taking on fuel for the next leg of the trip, a meeting that he had with two child passengers, Noel Anne Grenfell, aged 5, and her sister Stacy Marie, aged 3 <ref>http://www.rescue007.org/grenfells.htm</ref>.
| + | Helms appended to his letter to Yeltsin letter Interrogatories including the following: |
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| | + | "From Soviet reports of the incident, please provide |
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| | + | a) A list of the names of any living passengers and crew members from the airplane; |
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| | + | b) A list of missing passengers and crew; |
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| | + | c) A list of dead passengers and crew; |
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| | + | d) A list and explanation of what happened to the bodies of any dead passengers and crew; |
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| | + | Please provide detailed information on the fate of U.S. Congressman Larry McDonald.” |
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| | + | And finally, Helms would add: |
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| | + | 1. How many KAL-007 family members and crew are being held in Soviet camps? |
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| | + | 2. Please provide a detailed list of the camps containing live passengers and crew, together with a map showing their location |
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| | + | One thing Helms could not forget and would speak of often, and mention in his letter to Boris Yeltsin, was a meeting at Anchorage airport while both KAL 007 and KAL 015 were taking on fuel for the next leg of the trip, a meeting that he had with two child passengers, Noel Anne Grenfell, aged 5, and her sister Stacy Marie, aged 3 <ref>http://www.rescue007.org/grenfells.htm</ref>. |
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| | '''''"I’ll never forget that night when that plane was just beside ours at Anchorage airport with two little girls and their parents.''' | | '''''"I’ll never forget that night when that plane was just beside ours at Anchorage airport with two little girls and their parents.''' |