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Korean Airlines Flight 007 (view source)
Revision as of 21:58, February 15, 2009
, 21:58, February 15, 2009→Senator Jesse Helms and the POW and KAL 007 Connection
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"One of the greatest tragedies of the Cold War was the shoot-down of the Korean Airlines flight KAL-007 by the Armed Forces of what was then the Soviet Union on September 1, 1983. . . The KAL-007 tragedy was one of the most tense incidences of the entire Cold War. However, now that relations between our two nations have improved substantially, I believe that it is time to resolve the mysteries surrounding this event. Clearing the air on this issue could help further to improve relations."(See here [http://www.rescue007.org/helms_letter.htm]for complete Helms letter to Boris Yeltsin)</blockquote>
"One of the greatest tragedies of the Cold War was the shoot-down of the Korean Airlines flight KAL-007 by the Armed Forces of what was then the Soviet Union on September 1, 1983. . . The KAL-007 tragedy was one of the most tense incidences of the entire Cold War. However, now that relations between our two nations have improved substantially, I believe that it is time to resolve the mysteries surrounding this event. Clearing the air on this issue could help further to improve relations."</blockquote>
Helms appended to this letter the following interrogatories:
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From Soviet reports of the incident, please provide:
# A list of the names of any living passengers and crew members from the airplane;
# A list of missing passengers and crew;
# A list of dead passengers and crew;
# 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]].
# How many KAL-007 family members and crew are being held in Soviet camps?
# Please provide a detailed list of the camps containing live passengers and crew, together with a map showing their location
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Senator Helms' letter to Yeltsin was prompted, according to the Chief of Staff under Helms for the Minority Staff of the Committee on Foreign Relations, Rear Admiral Bud Nance, by the information from Israel, apparently verified by the CIA, concerning KAL 007[http://www.rescue007.org/nance_letter.htm]
This short period in the presidency of Boris Yeltsin evidenced a relative openness toward the United States, a window of opportunity which would shut tight with the ascendancy of Vladimir Putin. Added to KAL 007 and the American POW matters, Yeltsin had exhibited openness in his acknowledgment that the plague that had struck Sverdlovsk on April 9, 1979 causing death to humans and livestock had not been due, as the Soviets had long claimed, to a rampant cow disease, but to a mishap at a military biological facility which released deadly anthrax into the atmoshere.
This short period in the presidency of Boris Yeltsin evidenced a relative openness toward the United States, a window of opportunity which would shut tight with the ascendancy of Vladimir Putin. Added to KAL 007 and the American POW matters, Yeltsin had exhibited openness in his acknowledgment that the plague that had struck Sverdlovsk on April 9, 1979 causing death to humans and livestock had not been due, as the Soviets had long claimed, to a rampant cow disease, but to a mishap at a military biological facility which released deadly anthrax into the atmoshere.