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| − | ==Soviet Harassment of US Search and Rescue Efforts== | + | ===See [[The Soviet/ U.S naval confrontation]] for a full understanding of the Soviet Harassment of US Search and Rescue Efforts=== |
| − | [[Image:Soviet boats stalking.jpg|left|thumb|400px|Petropavlovsk & Narragansett. Sea of Japan. The fleet tug USNS Narragansett (T-ATF-167) is shadowed by the Soviet Kara class guided missile cruiser Petropavlovsk (565) during salvage operations for downed Korean Air Lines Flight 007. Official U.S. Navy photo by PH2 Paul Soutar (Released)]] | |
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| − | [[Image:Soviet destroyer.jpg|27 September - The Kashin class destroyer no. 660 interfered with the flight of a U.S. Navy helicopter. Radar lock-ons of U.S. Navy ships by the Kara class guided missile cruiser Petropavlovsk and the Kashin class destroyer Odarennyy.An Act of War. Official U.S. Navy photo by PH2 Paul Soutar (Released)|right|thumb|150px]]
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| − | (see real-time photos of some of the Soviet and U.S. ships involved in the confrontations [http://www.rescue007.org/photo_essay.htm])
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| − | From early September until the beginning of November the US with the Japanese and South Koreans carried out joint Search and Rescue and then Search and Salvage operations. These missions met with the following harassment and dangerous interference by the Soviets:
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| − | <li>7 September - The USS Elliot’s helicopter harassed by Soviet aircraft.
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| − | <li>15 September - The USNS Narragansett reported hazardous maneuvering by the Soviet ship Alpinist.
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| − | <li>18 September - The Narragansett harassed by the Pegus.
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| − | <li>19 September - USNS Conserver operations met with interference from the Gavril Sarychev. The USS Sterrett met with interference from the Pegus.
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| − | <li>23 September - The near collision of the USS Callaghan and the Gavril Sarychev.
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| − | <li>27 September - The Kashin class destroyer no. 660 interfered with the flight of a U.S. Navy helicopter. Radar lock-ons of U.S. Navy ships by the Kara class cruiser Petropavlovsk and the Kashin class destroyer Odarennyy.
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| − | <li>10 October - Soviet ship brandished weapons at Japanese vessel Kaiko Maru No.3 attempting to recover locator buoy. The USS Badger interposed between the vessels (The KAL 007 Massacre, Franz A. Kandell, Western Goals, 1985,pg. 285)
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| − | <li>26 October - Soviet combatants criss-crossed in front of the USS Tower and theConserver.
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| − | <ref>Cold War at Sea, David F. Winkler, U.S. Naval Institute Press, June 2000, pg.47</ref>
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| − | (See [[KAL 007/ Russian Ram attempt]] for the dramatic eyewitness account of cruelty and of bravery during the efforts to find and recovery KAL 007 and its black box)
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| − | The 1991 Republican Staff Study (ordered by Senator Jesse Helms) of the Committee on Foreign Relations would state concerning the magnitude of the Soviet actions:
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| − | '''“Moreover, the Soviet Navy and auxiliary vessels committed many serious violations of the 1972 Incident at Sea Agreement… such as attempted ramming of several U.S. and allied ships, presenting false flag and fake light signals, locking on the radar guidance of their weapons… sending an armed boarding party to threaten to board a Japanese auxiliary vessel chartered by the U.S. They engaged in a naval live-firing exercise northwest of Moneron Island, and sent Backfire bombers armed with air-to-surface nuclear-armed missiles to threaten the U.S. Navy search task force… move(d) U.S. sonar markers… manipulated the U.S. Navy search efforts into searching for decoy “pingers” on the sea bottom in very deep, international waters.”'''
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| − | See [[KAL 007/ Russian Ram attempt]] for a first hand account of bravery of South Korean sailors in the face of Russian attempt to ram them and see [http://sterett.net/public/kal_007_search_ops.htm] for U.S. naval first hand account from the USS Sterett destroyer with real time photos
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| − | [[Image:Soviet intelligence ships.jpg|Conserver, Narragansett, Alpinist, Moma. Sea of Japan. A Soviet Alpinist class intelligence ship and a Soviet Moma class intelligence collection ship shadow the fleet tug USNS Narragansett (T-ATF-167) and the USS Conserver (ARS-39) during salvage operations for downed Korean Air Lines Flight 007. Official U.S. Navy photo by PH2 Paul Soutar (Released)|right|thumb|400px]]
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