statement of 6 September of this year, documentary presented at the press conference fairs of the USSR, as well as the testimonies of numerous foreign specialists have revealed pletely and reliably the true aims behind the military-political provocation committed by the special services of the United States of America in the Soviet Far East on the night of 1 September 1983 ...
We shall not repeat the evident facts that are already well known and have been published in the press. At present, new data is coming to light, which provides additional that the south Korean plane was not only fulfilling an intelligence assignment but represented just one link in overall system of large scale intelligence operations. These were carried out on 31 August - 1 September with the use of a number of intelligence svstems over an area trom Soviet Chukotoka to the Primorye Territory.
Here are some of the additional tacts that have recently known.
Firstly, it has become established beyond any doubt that the Boeing 747 of the South Korean Air Lines had taken off from Anchorage in Alaska, where there is a stop-over airfield, 40 minutes behind schedule An airlines representative explained the delay by 'the need for an additional checking of the equipment', although no malfunction had been found. Delay But another fact has now come to light. That delay was needed in order to svnchronise the plane's approach to the shores of Kamchatka wakenelo with LNe American reconaissance Ferret-D.
This satellite designed radiotechnical reconaissance broad range of frequencies GOve radioelectronic The satellite is capable of detecting such installations within a strip or land about 3,000 kilometres wide. Its orbital period Is 96 minutes.
As can be seen from the diagram, on the night of 1 September the Ferret satellite appeared over 18 hours 45 minutes Moscow time, and tor about 12 minutes flew east of Kamchatka and the Kuril Islands.
reconnaissance satellite data comevidence become onboard Chukotka and Kamchatka determine their exact location level of activity satellite stage flight. for On its next see me vener used bu installations.
into Soviet Chukotka at South Korean strategic installations Uall Peninsula. 1500 km 1500km Path of the South Korean plane as it crossed the orbit of US Ferret United States Secretary of State George Shultz announced that the Soviet Union had shot down a South Korean airliner over the the methods of US administrations there was only one logical airliner manufactured by the US, On that circuit, the satellite had the opportunity, immediately before the intrusion into Soviet air space by the South Korean plane, to monitor Novel the Soviet radioelectronic systems on to the - thus assuring the or lne intruaer plane's orbit the Ferret ove the soviel Union at 20 hours and 24 minutes. At 20 hours 30 minutes Moscow time on 31 August. preciselv at the moment of the intrusion of the trespasser plane space, the Ferret-D satellite was over the area of Kamchatka. At that moment the second stage had begun of the flight of the plane over Soviet and into the of. the Kamchatka of the Feet Cover:
Alaska doubt by OCEAN and owned by one of the United course' over one of the most sensitive military areas of the USSR for iwo and a hall hours 'by acorganised or agreed to this flight and its 'error'. The reasons for this would eventual!
It was only natural that the violation of the USSR's air border had Soried raiband radiatechnical radio radiotechnical defence systems - which was what organisers of the flight All this exceptional Countcu radioelectronic activity was registered by the Ferret spy satellite. At the same time the satellite could also monitor the work of the Soviet radiotechnical defence systems on Sakhalin Kuril Islands.
Finally, a new circuit of the Ferret satellite coincided with absolute accuracy with the last, third stage of the Boeing 747s flight over Sakhalin.
ence oare entered the USSR's air space in the Sakhalin at 22 hours 05 minutes Moscow time. The Ferret satellite appeared at 22 hours 04 minutes over an area of Yakutsk, and at 22 hours 07 minutes reached the latitude of the northern part of Sakhalin Island. At that time, as was to be expected, the Ferret satellite monitored the work of all the Soviet Union's newly alerted air defence radiotechnical systems on Sakhalin, the Kuril Islands and the Primorye Territory.
No 'accident' can be used to explain such an accurate and repeated coincidence of the flight of the plane violating Soviet air space will une flight of the spy satellite. There is no that the moment of penetration by the intruder plane into Soviet air space had been carefully planned in advance so as to assure the maximum gathering of information the US Ferret reconaissance satellite. The Boeing was delayed at the Anchorage airfield precisely order to achieve this result.
Secondly, throughout its
tion, the flight of the South Korean intruder plane was carried out in the working area of the US Loran-S radio navigation system. This is capable of determining the true coordinates of a plane with high accuracy and at any moment.
This fact is being carefully concealed by the United States. Attempts are being made to prove that the main trouble was the accidental programming of incorrect flight coordinates into has already been West on the South Korean front ne are printing here the official Soviet account of the pecause incre a a scueral any casi Io believe accounts of events given by nesolle government. case the facts given are irrefutable.
The following article appeared in the journal international P. Kirsanov and has been edited by Socialist Action.
the plane's onboard computer. It is not being revealed however, that such steady deviation course could occur only if the error had been committed not once, but on had at least 7 control points on the route.
It is clear that this is impossible and is totally ruled out as an explanation. And even if such an event did occur, it was only had been introduced quite conscious.
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E-3A tion of Soviet al In short, September telligence the true in Hawaii, because the 'error' those who organised the radar, could immediately find out the plane's deviation from the route by comparing the terrain with the map.
All the actions of the Boeing 747 confirm that at all times it was under perfect control. Only this can explain its manoeuvering along the route in terms of its speed and altitude. The crew saw the warning manoeuvres of the Soviet air defence planes and tried to evade them although they realised that this ran the risk of weapons being used agains actions convincingly demonstrate that the plane was com plying with orders from the ground had specialised intelligence equipment on board it did not, of course, wish to land on a Soviet air field since it would be caught red Thirdly, prior to and during the violation by the South Korean plane of Soviet air space, there were in the of its operations other planes 135 reconnaissance plane whose presence has been admitted earlier. Another RC 135 was flying along the Kuril Islands, an Orion plane was over the Sea of Okhotsk north of Sakhalin, and a second plane of the same type was over the Sea of The US frigate Badger was on duty in the area of Vladivostok. There is also convincing evidence showing that (ĂWACS) plane was operating in the area where the viola space had occured monitoring the flight of both the in. truder plane and our fighters.
August to there was a whole incomplex deployed functioning in the Soviet Far East which included: a Boeing 747 equipped with appropriate radiotechnical intelligence systems; several specialised reconnaissance planes; a number of US naval ships; the ground track ing stations on the Aleutian Islands, Japan and South Korea; finally the electronic reconnaissance satellite Ferret.
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