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...President John Kennedy or black civil rights fighter Martin Luther King, but everything is already known about the [airliner]." The outrageous implication was that U.S. secret services had staged all three tragedies and covered their tracks successfully in the Kennedy and King deaths, but had been caught sending KAL 007 on a spy flight...
...signal their presence. Indeed, one of the other revisions in the transcripts reveals the Su-15 pilot saying, "He still can't see me." Unfortunately, this created another ambiguity: Did the Soviet pilot mean that he had succeeded in avoiding detection, or that his efforts to signal the KAL 747 had been unavailing...
...Korean jet tragedy does not significantly change the Reagan Administration's already jaundiced view of the Soviet Union. Yet there does appear to be an important, albeit subtle, shift in the way the U.S. deals with the U.S.S.R. Oddly enough, this change, though prompted hi part by the KAL outrage, could promote greater continuity in long-term U.S.-Soviet relations. Reagan came into office strongly advocating "linkage," the concept that talks on arms control and other important issues should be tied to Soviet conduct across the board. But the Administration insisted last week that the uproar over the Korean...
...when a Soviet fighter shot down KAL 007, killing all 269 passengers, the renascent détente in Washington was effectively stopped in its tracks. Thanks in just about equal parts to George Shultz's moderating influence and the lack of viable sanctions, Reagan's immediate response to the Soviet's brutal deed was mild: the usual harsh rhetoric coupled with some minor restrictions on cultural and diplomatic exchange. But despite the President's reaffirmation of his commitment to arms control, it is clear that this latest East-West crisis has been a boon to Reagan, slowing the nuclear freeze...
Could the Soviets have mistaken their target for a U.S. RC-135 reconnaissance plane that had been on a mission in the region near where the Korean jet went off course? Marshal Ogarkov reiterated the Soviet claim that the KAL plane was on a spy mission and flew in tandem with the RC-135 for ten minutes so that the blips of the two planes merged on Soviet radar screens. When they separated, he implied, the Soviets could not tell which was which. U.S. officials dismiss this scenario as ludicrous. The two planes, they say, passed each other 86 miles...