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Radio Moscow even went so far as to pick up and wildly distort an Italian newspaper interview with John Keppel, a retired State Department official, who had wondered about early reports that KAL 007 might have exploded some time after being hit by the Soviet missile. The Soviet broadcast twisted this into an allegation by Keppel that U.S. officials had ordered the plane blown up by remote control after the fighter attack so that its spy gear could never be recovered...
Another conspiracy theory was raised in an unusually speculative article in Defence Attaché, a generally respected London journal. An editor's note disclaimed agreement with the views of the author, who wrote under a pen name. The author's basic claim was that the KAL intrusion on Sept. 1 deliberately coincided with the Far East passes of both a U.S. spy satellite and the space shuttle Challenger. In his version, the airliner was sent over Soviet territory instead of a U.S. electronic-surveillance aircraft because U.S. officials believed that the Soviets would never shoot down a civilian...
...signs that any movement can be expected soon in stalled East-West relations. Administration officials hope that the U.N. General Assembly session that opens in September will provide the venue for Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko to talk with Shultz-and possibly with Reagan. In the aftermath of the KAL 007 crisis, Gromyko was refused entry last year to international airports in New York and New Jersey, and he decided to cancel his annual U.N. appearance. The veteran diplomat has been included on this session's roster of speakers, but there is no official word from Moscow about...
...Well, if I've been too harsh," he answered sarcastically, "maybe if I apologize for shooting down the KAL 707 [actually a 747]... maybe they'll warm...
...County. Balsiger's group planned to organize demonstrations near 100 Olympic sites and to distribute 500,000 leaflets. A small squadron of propaganda planes was to buzz the city, each pulling a banner having 5-ft.-high letters, with exhortations like STOP THE GENOCIDE IN AFGHANISTAN or REMEMBER KAL 007. The coalition planned to rent billboards to encourage Soviet defections ("Wish to defect? Telephone ..."), and some 500 "safe houses" in the Los Angeles area were said to be ready to receive the defectors...