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Pierre Salinger's theory that TWA Flight 800 was destroyed accidentally by a missile test-fired from a U.S. naval vessel [NATION, Nov. 25] is not all that questionable in light of the National Transportation Safety Board's inconclusive explanations. It brings me to quote history's most famous fictional detective Sherlock Holmes: "When you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." KAM-WAN WONG Durham, England
...reported, it cannot be said for certain what caused the tragic TWA crash. At the same time, it is clear that if it was the result of "friendly fire," this would amount to an unmitigated political scandal. It would not be the first time a U.S. Navy vessel fired at and destroyed a civilian aircraft; neither would it be the first time in the U.S. that a major cover-up involving high echelons of society took place. The lack of proof at this stage, therefore, does not mean much. REGINA ASARIOTIS Southampton, England...
Salinger's newest theory isn't original, but it's catnip to conspiracy buffs. Earlier this month he went before television cameras in France to announce that he had been given a document by an unnamed French intelligence agent offering "very, very strong proof" that TWA Flight 800 had been destroyed accidentally by a missile test-fired from a U.S. naval vessel. One problem: Salinger's "secret document" had been on the Internet for weeks and had already been picked apart in the press...
Pierre Salinger, former press secretary to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, met with FBI and Secret Service agents in New York City last week to discuss his claim--picked up from the Internet--that TWA Flight 800 was accidentally shot down by a Navy missile. As it happens, this isn't the only theory about the tragedy's cause knocking around the Net. Three other potential culprits, as cited on the alt.conspiracy newsgroup...
ELAINE SHANNON, who has been covering the FBI and the Department of Justice for TIME since 1987, was furiously reporting the TWA Flight 800 crash story last July when a pipe bomb blew up in Atlanta's Centennial Olympic Park in the middle of the Summer Games. As suspicion fell on Richard Jewell, the security guard who had at first been considered a hero for spotting the bomb, Shannon enjoyed an insider's view of a criminal investigation that ended up going wrong in a painfully public way. "The FBI is a remarkable institution that often gets...