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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.
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| 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,”

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