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Izvestya has turned turtle, so to speak, from its original coverage of
the complete destruction of 007 to now a myriad of conflicting stories
concerning the survival of the people aboard. The Shifren Report
quotes Izvestya as making such statements as:
“There were no passengers on 007.”
“The place of the emergency landing has been confirmed.”
“Divers found no evidence of any personnel having been
aboard.”
“Radio transmissions were heard from the pilot as much as 50
minutes after the initial attack.”
In short, the writers of the Shifrin Report were attempting to
show that even the official newspaper of the Soviets is now admitting
that the people survived, thus settling a great cloud of doubt over the
original claim of complete destruction.
Why does the name of Bircher McDonald keep cropping up?
Because “they” want him alive under any circumstances whatsoever,
and if he is alive only on paper that is
good enough. McDonald is of no singular
importance in comparison to any other of
the 268, except to the Birch Society, Inc.
Look again at Paragraph 6. This is
an effort to enlist the reader in writing to
his congressman. The release complains
that all of this information concerning the
“kidnapped captives” had been supplied
to the U.S. Senate many months prior to
the July 1991 public release but that our
Congress has ignored it completely. It is
an indirect plea to “write your congressman.”
It sounds noble, especially to the
loyal JBS members who have been brainwashed into writing their
congressman whenever the weather turns sour or the wind velocity
accelerates.
Our Congress will do nothing regarding the now ancient KAL
007 incident. They will do nothing for one, or both, of two
reasons: (1) The KAL 007 shoot-down is of no major significance
at this late date; (2) there is more than ample proven
evidence, known within the Congress, that has shown that the truth
of KAL 007 is its complete destruction on September 1, 1983.
In the realm of reality there is only one unanswered question
of importance in this entire one-act play concerning the in-flight
destruction of KAL 007. The question could be definitively answered
by a very few who know the answer, but these will never come forward.
That one question, of course, is simple: Why was the aircraft
some 200 miles off course to the north, at the time of the shoot-down?
The answer here would completely unravel the entire mess
and, for that reason, the answer will never be known. It would open
up a Pandora’s Box of information never to be revealed.
It must be accepted that there was a sinister reason for the
aircraft to be off course at a pre-planned time and place. A planned,
programmed and conspired reason was behind the entire flight. The
reason was not the presence of McDonald, or Jesse Helms, or anything
else that might appear obvious.
The Shifrin Report is a game but amateurish attempt to confuse
the thinking of the audience and to spread a scenario completely
divergent from what most have believed for the last few years. It
discusses trivia and nonsense to present the point that the crew and
passengers are prisoners. It makes no direct comments concerning
why the aircraft was shot down or why it was so far off course.
The Soviets were not a part of any sinister plot to destroy 007.
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KAL FLIGHT 007 PREPARES FOR TAKE-OFF.
They did not have to be. Those who put the flight in the physical position
in which it was destroyed were very aware that there would be
a reaction to a foreign aircraft in very restricted Soviet airspace. The
reaction was what was counted upon, and the reaction took place.
At approximately 0252 hours Soviet surveillance radar pinpointed
an unknown target traveling from northeast to southwest
and well within the highly restricted airspace of the Sakhalin missile
test area. Sakhalin Island has long been one of the important
radar tracking sites for all of the Soviet ICBM flights launched from
Novaya Zemlya and Kapustin Yar that have been targeted for impact
in the Pacific. All available information denied that there was any
Soviet or other known aircraft operating in the area. The painted target
was an unknown. Pandemonium broke loose within the local
Soviet operations facilities, and the communications links between
Sakhalin and Moscow came alive. A decision was quickly made, and
the alert fighter aircraft at Sakhalinsk Air Base were scrambled.
Lt. Col. Osipovich and his wingman
were airborne within minutes of the
scramble order and were immediately
under the control and guidance of their
vectoring radar. The fighter piloted by
Osipovich had a speed capability of Mach
2.3 (1,520 mph) or about three times the
cruise speed of a Boeing 747. His wingman
was flying a Mikoyan (MiG) Type
23S [code name Flogger-B] having similar
performance and armament to the
SU-15. There was no problem of interception
of the airliner, and the only concern
of those directing the interception and
destruction of 007 was that it might depart the restricted area before
Osipovich gained a firing position. This did not happen.
The Osipovich flight was directed by the radar controllers to a
position astern of 007 and at the then assigned altitude for 007 of
33,000 feet. At approximately 0323 hours Captain Chon Bium In,
pilot of 007, requested and received permission from Tokyo flight center
to change flight level from 33,000 to 35,000 feet as a normal fuel
conservation procedure. Captain Chon increased engine RPM to the
accepted power level to effect the change in altitude. However, climb
speed is less than normal cruise speed, and the Osipovich flight, by
this time, was in a position to observe the decrease in airspeed.
Osipovich was not monitoring the KAL radio frequency. He immediately
and, of course, wrongly assumed the target was taking evasive
action. Uppermost in his mind, however, were his orders to destroy
the target.
Even though Osipovich had by this time identified the plane
as a non-military type, he reconfirmed with his ground directors his
instructions: to fire and destroy. He resumed the ideal firing position
to the rear of 007 and methodically went through the mental checklist
required prior to the launch of his missile or missiles. At this
point there no longer would be any concern on his part as to the specific
nature of the target.
The fighters involved were first-line operational aircraft of the
Soviet air defense force in late 1983 and were armed with the latest
versions of both radar-guided and infra-red homing missiles. As to
the deadliness of these offensive weapons there can be little or no
argument concerning their destructive power and terminal effect.
The Soviet missiles were fired from a range of approximately
4 km (2.4 miles), assuring ample time for the missiles to arm themselves
before impact. The tracking solution for the missiles was simple;
there was no evasive action being taken by the target. At better