a a THE WORLD U.S. spy satellite monitored plane’s path Soviet Air Force Marshal Pyotr Kirsanov made known on Sept. 20 additional damning evidence proving the USA’s use of Korean Air Lines Flight 007 and its passengers in a complex spy operation over Soviet Far East territories. Major excerpts from his report, supplied in English by the Soviet news agencey APN, Here are some new facts which have Ome known of late. Firstly, it has been established beyond all doubt that the South Korean Airlines Boeing-747 had taken off from an inter- Mediate landing airfield at Anchorage, Alaska, after a 40 minute delay. AKAL 'epresentative explained the delay by the need to make an additional check of on-board equipment’, although no faults ‘ad been found. It has been established Now that the aircraft was delayed in order {0 synchronize its approach to the coast of Kamchatka and Sakhalin with the ht of the American reconnaissance atificial satellite Ferret-D. This satellite is designed for gathering ‘lectronic intelligence in a broad range of quencies used by Soviet radio and flectronic facilities. It is capable of tecting such facilities within a strip about 3,000 kilometres wide. It makes a "Volution on the orbit round the earth in Minutes. On the night of August 31 and Sep- (ember 1 the satellite Ferret appeared Ver Chukotka at 18.45 Moscow time 4nd for about 12 minutes flew to the east ofKamchatka and the Kurile Islands. On this orbit it could listen shortly before the Ntrusion of the South Korean airliner to Soviet airspace to Soviet radio elec- ‘onic facilities in Chukotka and Kam- thatka, which operated in the normal rombat Dury regime and ascertain their Scality and level of activity, thereby en- le | On its next orbit, the Ferret satellite 4Ppeared over the Soviet Union at 20.24 nd 20.30 Moscow time on August 31, that is exactly at the moment the South Srean plane intruded into Soviet air- ‘pace, it overflew Kamchatka. That was the beginning of the second stage of the - oder aircraft’s reconnaissance flight Yer Soviet strategic installations on the aee™ tip of the Kamchatka Penin- The intrusion of the South Korean air- ae Into Soviet airspace made our radio tive etronic facilities increase their ac- the ry almost two times and that was just Voca tention of the organizers of the pro- ‘ ation. All that was registered by the tha Spy satellite. It should be noted atthe same time Ferret monitored the ork of Soviet air defence radio and elec- K Ac facilities on Sakhalin Island and the Tepime® in their normal day-to-day e. ont but not least, the satellite’s flight ls next orbit coincided with absolute Ree! with the last, third stage of the + ty seeatadd flight over Sakhalin. The in- thay citcraft entered Soviet airspace in Rem on at 22.05 Moscow time. The rs Tet satellite appeared over the region mae North of Yakutsk at 22.04 and ed Northern Sakhalin’s latitude at ithe _at that time, as might be expected, air qatcted the work of all our additional Witehene’ Tadio and electronic facilities Kuri, €d on in Sakhalin island, the €s and in maritime territory. N 007’s Position Well Known | tape 2 8¢Cident can explain such an accu- trudent’ repeated coincidence of the in- Satan. fight with the flight of the spy fthe +, here is no doubt that the'time lines Intrusion of the South Korean Air- Kam, Plane into Soviet airspace near Sakhal ka and its appearance over vance had been thoroughly planned in Sang © 8° that the American reconnais- Maxim, lite, Ferret could obtain Son Why theormation. That was the rea- Atchorage Boeing flight was delayed at soecondly, throughout its flight, the | Only wigorean intruder aircraft was not ttonig tin! the range of radio and elec- the wor control services but also within s Tange of the American radio fig the first stage of the intruder’s. are given here verbatim. navigation system Loran-C, which can ' determine the actual location of an air- craft with great accuracy and at any time. This fact is. being thoroughly con- cealed by the American side. The United States claims that the incident resulted from the accidental feeding of an error into the aircraft’s computerized naviga- tion system. However, it makes no men- tion of the fact that such a steady devia- tion from course for two and a half hours could only result from a mistake commit- ted on at least seven check points on the route. This is absolutely impossible and is therefore ruled out. The airliner inci- dent is hence the result of a deliberate feeding of a mistake by those who pre- pared and organized that espionage and provocative flight. This is confirmed by research con- ducted not only by Soviet experts but also by experts of the Civil Aviation Au- thority (Britain), the results of which were announced on British television on September 14. The television report said that the CAA experts used a Boeing-747 computer and simulator, modelled the entire flight and analyzed its 27 versions. The experts came to the conclusion that the aircraft could not go so far off course as a result of a fault in the navigational system or an error fed into the plane’s flight program. They also emphasized that by using an on-board radar and a map of the region the crew commander could immediately detect a deviation from the plane’s route. All the actions of the intruder aircraft confirm the fact that in all cases it was well controlled. This is the only explana- tion of the fact why the airliner changed its course, speed and altitude. The crew saw warning manoeuvres of Soviet air defence planes and tried to escape, al- though they knew only too well that they were provoking the latter into using force. Such actions convincingly show that the plane followed orders from the ground. Carrying special reconnaissance equipment the crew did not want to land on a Soviet airfield where they would have been caught red-handed. Thirdly, on the eve of the intrusion of the South Korean airliner into Soviet air- space and during its flight over Soviet territory there were other facilities in the region of its action besides the RC-135 reconnaissance plane. Another RC-135 reconnaissance plane patrolled the seas along the Kurile islands. An Orion plane was in the air over the Sea of Okhotsk to the north of Sakhalin and another Orion craft flew over the Sea of Japan. The American frigate, Badger was on combat duty near Vladivostok. There is other Korean air lines 747, part of an elaborate espionage plan to monitor Soviet defences. convincing evidence which enables us to assert that an E-3A (AWACS) plane was near the intrusion area and surveyed the flight of. the intruder and that of the Soviet fighters. Eleven Extra Crew To sum up, a reconnaissance system was deployed and operated near the Soviet Far East from August 31 to Sep- tember 1. It included the Boeing-747 air- craft equipped with radio and electronic reconnaissance facilities, several special reconnaissance aircraft, several U.S. navy ships, ground tracking stations in the Aleutians, Hawaii, Japan and South Korea and, lastly, the electronic recon- naissance satellite, Ferret. All these facilities operated to obtain the fullest possible information about the Soviet air defence system in the Far East, especially in the areas of the vital Strategic facilities in Kamchatka and Sakhalin, and about the facilities themselves. There are some other circumstances, which might seem strange at first sight but are quite explicable in fact. Normally the Boeing-747’s crew and service per- sonnel is 18. The intruder plane had 29. Who were those 11 additional people? There is no doubt that they were special- ists who operated reconnaissance equipment on board the plane. It is no accident that one of the most experi- enced pilots, South Korean Air Force Reserve Colonel Chung Byong-In, who was considered KAL’s best pilot and was known for his ties with American intelligence services, was chosen to fly the airliner. The co-pilot of the intruder plane, South Korean Air Force Reserve Lieutenant Colonel Son Don. Vin, re- portedly co-operated with U.S. Secrez services. All these facts illustrate in their true light the hypocrisy of the numerous Statements made almost every day by Reagan, Weinberger, Shultz, Kirk- patrick and other members of the U.S. administration who want to put the blame for the South Korean airliner dis- aster on the Soviet Union. There is one Latin phrase which can put all things in their proper places as far as this “mysterious”’ incident is concerned. Qui prodest? — Who stands to gain? Just ask this question and you will see who pro- voked the incident and who now wants to make capital from it. The aims of the hideous provocation organized by Washington are obvious. If these facts are not enough, there will be more. It is high time for them to stop making hypocritical statements because they are quite useless. (Subheads added by the Tribune.) TORONTO — Warning against al- lowing events to be made a justi- fication for nuclear war, Dr. John Hanly Morgan, president of the Canadian Peace Congress said in a times for ‘‘positive action for peace’. ‘The deaths of 269 people result- ing from the violation by South Ko- rean pilots of Soviet air space in a terrible symbol of a fate awaiting dozens of millions of people if the peace forces fail to turn the U.S. war hawks around and help the world get on with the necessary processes of détente and multilateral disarma- ment,”’ he said. one “For the peace movement”, this press release, Sept. 19, that these are - especially military-sensitive areas iss Don’t allow U.S. to justify war is a time for holding steady and av- oiding division, in the realization ‘that the peace movement will con- tinue to grow because the public generally understands the truth of what peace leaders are saying: that the world is getting more and more dangerous because of the terrible escalation of U.S. weaponry and the hate rhetoric that accompanies it. He expressed the conviction that “people realize that, if things go on as they have been since the present Washington administration and . Congress took office, there will eventually come an event or series of events that become justification for war.” The Canadian Peace Congress therefore calls for ‘“‘redoubled effort by all friends of peace to stop the U.S. deployment in Europe of the Cruise and Pershing II and for sensi- ble resumption of the SALT pro- cess,’’ Morgan said. Stating that the ‘‘harsh language and actions accompanying the tragic result of the air violation have under- standably created much fear among the people,”’ the Peace Congress president added: “Let us give that fear creative out- let in positive action for peace. Many new friends now await our call to join us in the ranks of struggle to annul the Cruise testing decision, to declare Canada a nuclear weap- ons free zone, and to support a freeze in production of nuclear weapons,” PACIFIC TRIBUNE—SEPTEMBER 28, 19863—Page 9