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On December 10, just five days after Senator Helms had written Yeltsin concerning American servicemen, Helms would write to Yeltsin concerning KAL 007, "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." KAL 007 had carried on board among its passengers and crew numbering 269 people, sitting Dem. Congressman from Georgia and then head of the [[John Birch Society]], [[Larry McDonald]]. Then, in June of 1992, Yeltsin revealed the existence of KGB memo reporting the existence of documents related to KAL 007.  Speaking in Washington, he said, "It was a memorandum from (the) [[KGB]] to the Central Committee of the Communist Party where it says that such a tragedy has taken place, and so on and so forth, and that there are documents which would clarify the entire picture.  And the next line then says these documents are so well concealed that it is doubtful that our children will be able to find them, those who come after us will be able to

On December 10, just five days after Senator Helms had written Yeltsin concerning American servicemen, Helms would write to Yeltsin concerning KAL 007, "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." KAL 007 had carried on board among its passengers and crew numbering 269 people, sitting Dem. Congressman from Georgia and then head of the [[John Birch Society]], [[Larry McDonald]]. Then, in June of 1992, Yeltsin revealed the existence of KGB memo reporting the existence of documents related to KAL 007.  Speaking in Washington, he said, "It was a memorandum from (the) [[KGB]] to the Central Committee of the Communist Party where it says that such a tragedy has taken place, and so on and so forth, and that there are documents which would clarify the entire picture.  And the next line then says these documents are so well concealed that it is doubtful that our children will be able to find them, those who come after us will be able to

find them." <ref>UPI, Washington, June 17, 1992</ref>. Yeltsin would ultimately respond on January 8, 1993 by handing over to the International Civil Aviation Organization what the Russians had for so many years denied possessing, the subject of Soviet Naval deception of the U.S. Seventh Fleet <ref>http://www.rescue007.org/ruse.htm</ref> - the vaunted and much sought after tapes of the KAL 007's "Black Box", the tapes from the Digital Flight Data Recorder and the Cockpit Voice Recorder <ref>http://www.rescue007.org/docs/Is%20This%20the%20Final%20Word.pdf</ref>. With the return of the tapes, Yeltsin would hand over the real-time Soviet military communications of the shootdown requested by Helms, reopening the question about the fate of KAL 007 and its passengers (See [[All Transcript Combined Timeline of Attack and Rescue Mission]] for the reconstruction of KAL 007's flight after the attack based on these military communications)

find them." <ref>UPI, Washington, June 17, 1992</ref>. Yeltsin would ultimately respond on January 8, 1993 by handing over to the International Civil Aviation Organization what the Russians had for so many years denied possessing, the subject of Soviet Naval deception of the U.S. Seventh Fleet <ref>http://www.rescue007.org/ruse.htm</ref> - the vaunted and much sought after tapes of the KAL 007's "Black Box", the tapes from the Digital Flight Data Recorder and the Cockpit Voice Recorder <ref>http://www.rescue007.org/docs/Is%20This%20the%20Final%20Word.pdf</ref>. With the return of the tapes, Yeltsin would hand over the real-time Soviet military communications of the shootdown requested by Helms,including the transcripts of Soviet concealed missions to [[Moneron Island]], reopening the question about the fate of KAL 007 and its passengers (See [[All Transcript Combined Timeline of Attack and Rescue Mission]] for the reconstruction of KAL 007's flight after the attack based on these military communications)

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