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As the test of the illegal (Salt ll) SS-25 had been planned for that night with the missile coming down on the Klyuchi target range of Kamchatka<ref>http://www.rescue007.org/how_kal_007_was_lost.htm</ref> - where KAL 007 was to traverse in its first intrusion of Soviet territory- the head of the First Directorate of Strategic Concealment (Maskirovka), '''First Deputy Chief of Staff Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev''' would have been present for any decision.

As the test of the illegal (Salt ll) SS-25 had been planned for that night with the missile coming down on the Klyuchi target range of Kamchatka<ref>http://www.rescue007.org/how_kal_007_was_lost.htm</ref> - where KAL 007 was to traverse in its first intrusion of Soviet territory- the head of the First Directorate of Strategic Concealment (Maskirovka), '''First Deputy Chief of Staff Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev''' would have been present for any decision.

Further, '''Chief of the Soviet General Staff and First Deputy Minister of Defense Nikolai Ogarkov''' would have been in on any decision and would have informed his superior and link with the Political echelon, '''Minister of Defense Dmitri Ustinov'''.  

Further, '''Chief of the Soviet General Staff and First Deputy Minister of Defense Nikolai Ogarkov''' would have been in on any decision and would have informed his immediate superior and link with the Political echelon, '''Minister of Defense Dmitri Ustinov'''.  

It is then that '''Yuri Andropov''' would have been in position for decision for shootdown.  

It is then that '''Yuri Andropov''' would have been in position for decision for shootdown.