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...John Keppel '40, a Foreign Service Officer from 1947-1969, is scheduled to deliver "the Story Behind the Downing of Korean Airlines Flight 007" at 7:30 p.m. in the Starr Auditorium...
...Keppel said yesterday that he will present the result of his nine-year investigation into the destruction of the aircraft, which killed 269 passengers and crew...
...Keppel's interest was piqued by the improbability of the official positions on the crash of the plane, which was off course over Soviet territory...
...course on intelligence purposes, [while] the U.S. said it flew off innocently. However, both governments implied similar things: that the plane was alone when it flew off, that it was alone when it was shot down and that it was shot down off of [Soviet island] Sakhalin," said Keppel, who once served in Moscow...
...believe three basic propositions," said Keppel. "One, that the airliner was the companion of several military aircraft, Two, that several of these [aircraft] were down off Sakhalin. Three,that the Korean aircraft escaped the Soviets andwas shot down for reasons unclear...