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===Background to the Report===

===Background to the Report===

   

   

Information  from immigrating former Soviet military men  about  Soviet radar trackings of KAL 007  to what was believed to be a safe water landing had come to the  Israeli  Research  Centre for Prisons, Psych-Prisons, and Forced Labor Concentration Camps of the U.S.S.R.  From there it was conveyed to Senator Jesse Helms, the ranking member of the minority staff (Republican) of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. Senator Helms requested American intelligence agencies, main among them the CIA and the NSA, to verify the information.. Partial but essential verification  was the result and the Minority Staff of the Committee  produced the 1991 draft report of  the incident. Based on the information from the Israel Research Centre and the  intelligence information of the report. Senator Helms wrote  [[Boris Yeltsin]] asking him to convey to the :Committee  all information concerning survivors, including their present whereabouts, camp locations, etc., with special request for information concerning Domocratic Rep. from Georgia, [[Larry McDonald]], a sitting congressman who had been aboard KAL 007  He also asked Yeltsin to supply all military communications related to the shootdown.  

Information  from immigrating former Soviet military men  about  Soviet radar trackings of KAL 007  to what was believed to be a safe water landing had come to the  Israeli  Research  Centre for Prisons, Psych-Prisons, and Forced Labor Concentration Camps of the U.S.S.R.  From there it was conveyed to Senator Jesse Helms, the ranking member of the minority staff (Republican) of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. Senator Helms requested American intelligence agencies, main among them the CIA and the NSA, to verify the information.. Partial but essential verification  was the result and the Minority Staff of the Committee  produced the 1991 draft report of  the incident. Based on the information from the Israel Research Centre and the  intelligence information of the report. Senator Helms wrote  [[Boris Yeltsin]] asking him to convey to the :Committee  all information concerning survivors, including their present whereabouts, camp locations, etc., with special request for information concerning Democratic Rep. from Georgia, [[Larry McDonald]], a sitting congressman who had been aboard KAL 007  He also asked Yeltsin to supply all military communications related to the shootdown.  

   

   

*Here  [http://www.rescue007.org/republican_staff_study.htm] is the  complete  text of the 1991 Republican Staff Study.of the Committee on Foreign Relations  

*Here  [http://www.rescue007.org/republican_staff_study.htm] is the  complete  text of the 1991 Republican Staff Study.of the Committee on Foreign Relations  

*Here  [http://www.rescue007.org/nance_letter.htm] is the letter from Rear Admiral Bud Nance, Minority Staff Director under Senator Helms,  to the director of the  Israeli  Research Centre affirming that the information  coming from Israel  to Committee on Foreign Relations had been  partially confirmed by the CIA and was the basis for Sen. Helms writing to Yeltsin..

*Here  [http://www.rescue007.org/nance_letter.htm] is the letter from Rear Admiral Bud Nance, Minority Staff Director under Senator Helms,  to the director of the  Israeli  Research Centre affirming that the information  coming from Israel  to Committee on Foreign Relations had been  partially confirmed by the CIA and was the basis for Sen. Helms writing to Yeltsin..

   

   

*Here  [http://www.rescue007.org/helms_letter.htm]  is the letter of Senator Helms to  Boris Yeltsin with attached interrogatories.

*Here  [http://www.rescue007.org/helms_letter.htm]  is the letter of Senator Helms to  Boris Yeltsin with attached interrogatories.

 

===Soviet aerial  sighting of KAL 007 on the water===

===Soviet aerial  sighting of KAL 007 on the water===

Some Soviet support aircraft sent aloft with the [[Sukhoi Su-15|Su-15]] that downed KAL 007 were unable to locate the stricken jumbo jet, neither in the air during its twelve minute plus post-detonation flight, nor on the water. See 18:29:13, 18:29:54, and 18:38:37 of [[KAL 007: Timeline of Interception and Shootdown]]. But others, or these afterwards, were able to make visual contact with KAL 007. According to the Republican Staff Study, “sensitive special intelligence” (NSA electronic intercepts) revealed the following:  About four hours after the shoot-down, Soviet Air Defense command posts  were reporting that Soviet pilots  were saying that a civilian passenger plane had been shot down instead of a U.S. RC-135 reconnaissance plane, and they (the command posts) were expressing regret, both that they had not downed the RC-135 and that now the Americans would accuse them of killing Americans.  

Some Soviet support aircraft sent aloft with the [[Sukhoi Su-15|Su-15]] that downed KAL 007 were unable to locate the stricken jumbo jet, neither in the air during its twelve minute plus post-detonation flight, nor on the water. See 18:29:13, 18:29:54, and 18:38:37 of [[KAL 007: Timeline of Interception and Shootdown]]. But others, or these afterwards, were able to make visual contact with KAL 007. According to the Republican Staff Study, “sensitive special intelligence” (NSA electronic intercepts) revealed the following:  About four hours after the shoot-down, Soviet Air Defense command posts  were reporting that Soviet pilots  were saying that a civilian passenger plane had been shot down instead of a U.S. RC-135 reconnaissance plane, and they (the command posts) were expressing regret, both that they had not downed the RC-135 and that now the Americans would accuse them of killing Americans.