The ICAO Report released on Dec. 2, 1983 contained this statement by the Soviet Government, ''"No remains of the victims, the Instruments or their components or the flight recorders have so far been discovered"'' (Appendix F, ICAO 83). This was a lie as Boris Yeltsin's release of the earlier Nov. 1983 Memo from KGB head V. Chebrikov and Defense MInister D. Ustinov to Yuri Andropov, would show, '''''"In the third decade of October this year the equipment in question (the recorder of in-flight parameters and the recorder of voice communications by the flight crew with ground air traffic surveillance stations and between themselves) was brought aboard a search vessel and forwarded to Moscow by air for decoding and translation at the Air Force Scientific Research Institute."'' (Izvestia #228, October 16, 1992)''' | The ICAO Report released on Dec. 2, 1983 contained this statement by the Soviet Government, ''"No remains of the victims, the Instruments or their components or the flight recorders have so far been discovered"'' (Appendix F, ICAO 83). This was a lie as Boris Yeltsin's release of the earlier Nov. 1983 Memo from KGB head V. Chebrikov and Defense MInister D. Ustinov to Yuri Andropov, would show, '''''"In the third decade of October this year the equipment in question (the recorder of in-flight parameters and the recorder of voice communications by the flight crew with ground air traffic surveillance stations and between themselves) was brought aboard a search vessel and forwarded to Moscow by air for decoding and translation at the Air Force Scientific Research Institute."'' (Izvestia #228, October 16, 1992)''' |