Korean Air Lines Flight 007 shootdown event
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Claims (9)
General Ivan Teryak ordered_assassination_of
Korean Air Lines Flight 007 shootdown book_quoted
“The interceptor flight tanks were only filled with enough fuel for local operations. They would not have much time to loiter once contact was made. And a decision concerning what course of action would come next would have to be instant. At…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Medusa Files Part 13 @ 16:41
Soviet Union carried_out_attack
Korean Air Lines Flight 007 shootdown book_quoted
“that he had identified the intruder and that it was a civilian airliner, even identifying the company and type of Boeing 707 KAL markings. Both times, he was told to proceed to shoot it down. And both times, he refused to do so. However, af…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Medusa Files Part 13 @ 11:19
Soviet Union covered_up
Korean Air Lines Flight 007 shootdown host_asserted
“a negative international incident rapidly deteriorating into world relations disaster. The only way to make that might be savaged would be a world-class deception created by the layers of lies. Even as a vast armada of Soviet vessels conver…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Medusa Files Part 13 @ 36:37
Soviet Union covered_up
Korean Air Lines Flight 007 shootdown book_quoted
“These things are tracked all over the world. There were more than one country that knew all of this was going on because they all have radars. Then came out a 17 part expose of the Soviet coverup surrounding the KAL 007, which ran between D…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Medusa Files Part 13 @ 44:05
David Pearson exposed
Korean Air Lines Flight 007 shootdown book_quoted
“and no remarkable or inside knowledge of the event. In other words, it was handed to him to put his name on, and he did so. Then in 1984, a Yale graduate student by the name of David Pearson wrote an article for The Nation that stated the U…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Medusa Files Part 13 @ 40:05
Soviet Union carried_out_attack
Korean Air Lines Flight 007 shootdown book_quoted
“And the receipt of the final command, kill the intruder, at 6.25 was 10 minutes. At 6.26, he said he fired two missiles simultaneously. And according to him, they struck the 747, one near the tail, and the other one took off the left wing. …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Medusa Files Part 13 @ 29:02
Marshal Nikolai Agarkov ordered_assassination_of
Korean Air Lines Flight 007 shootdown host_asserted
“a negative international incident rapidly deteriorating into world relations disaster. The only way to make that might be savaged would be a world-class deception created by the layers of lies. Even as a vast armada of Soviet vessels conver…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Medusa Files Part 13 @ 36:37
The Washington Post covered_up
Korean Air Lines Flight 007 shootdown host_asserted
“they went for the disinformation campaign. The end result is that the world press swallowed the Soviet version and even came up with other reinforcing stories that the Korean 747 had indeed been a CIA spy mission. The Washington Post headli…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Medusa Files Part 13 @ 38:33
Soviet Union covered_up
Korean Air Lines Flight 007 shootdown book_quoted
“According to a Soviet diver who had examined the wreck, the main thing was not what we had seen, but what we had not seen. The divers found practically no human bodies or remains. What had became of the 269 passengers and nine crew members.…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Medusa Files Part 13 @ 45:10
Mentions (50)
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McDonald and Western Goals were ordered to turn over 30 computer floppy disks and their printouts, plus storage tape and printouts to the L.A. grand jury. Lawyers won a delay on August 9th for the subpoena for a hearing on September 13th. W…
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an RC-135. So you've got the reconnaissance guy flying and the tanker to refuel it flying there too. So those two aircraft were in, and of course they're Boeing, they have four engines. The KAL, the Korean airliner 007 was a 747, obviously …
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over some islands that were Russian territories. And that's when they shot it down. Now, interestingly enough, he was not the only person going, but he was the only person on that flight because that flight originated from New York. The oth…
▶ 12:41
in Operation Gladio. And he also was killed when Korean airline flight 007 in September 1983 crashed. So that's very interesting. And we've looked into that a couple of different times. I love the number 007. And so McDonald was very much p…
▶ 12:35
In a strange and twisted twist of fate, Larry McDonald was killed along with 268 others on Korean flight 007 when it was shot down by the Soviet Union when it strayed into their airspace. This left Sengle substantially in control of Western…
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that ended up getting killed on the Korean flight 007. If you guys remember that whole thing, that was the one that was said to have skirted into the Russian airspace. And also, Western goals got implicated in the Iran-Contra scandal. It wa…
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The book goes on, starting in chapter 26, to talk about September 1st, 1983, a Boeing 747 carrying 269 passengers flew over the Western Pacific. Its destination was Seoul, the capital of South Korea. It never arrived. Unknown to the crew, t…
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they would have been alarmed to know that they were well within the Soviet air defense zone. And the Russians took the presence of intruders seriously. Only five years before, another jetliner belonging to the same company, Korean Airlines,…
▶ 11:19
that he had identified the intruder and that it was a civilian airliner, even identifying the company and type of Boeing 707 KAL markings. Both times, he was told to proceed to shoot it down. And both times, he refused to do so. However, af…
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which killed two passengers and disabled the aircraft. The Korean crew fought desperately to save their ship and miraculously managed to land the crippled aircraft on a frozen Soviet lake. The passengers were released two days later, but th…
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which killed two passengers and disabled the aircraft. The Korean crew fought desperately to save their ship and miraculously managed to land the crippled aircraft on a frozen Soviet lake. The passengers were released two days later, but th…
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and were completely alert when the new blip of the KAL civilian aircraft 007 appeared on their screen. Only this time, instead of resuming the routine race track oval flight pattern just outside their air defense zone, as the KC-135 had don…
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and had not come within 50 miles of the civilian airliner. KAL 007, still not realizing how close they were getting to the Siberian coastline, continued on. Then, as another radar site began to pick it up, another flight was ordered into th…
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the Soviet peninsula, the 500-mile expanse of the Sea of Oktaks, north of the Karel Islands, and was approaching Sakhalin Island, just north of Japan, and had managed to do so completely unmolested, which infuriated the Soviet commanders. T…
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405 crew members aboard the American KC-135 who had been monitoring the Soviet activities heard this order repeated no less than five times. KAL-007, which had unknowingly managed to evade the latest and most capable MiG fighters, was now a…
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Within a few minutes, the jumbo jet would reenter international airspace and escape. Unfortunately, that wasn't going to be allowed to happen. Now, what's interesting about what I just read is the fact that, because when we've come across t…
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It therefore had to rely on a standoff distance and missile capability to be a lethal aircraft. The pilot chose to maneuver his aircraft to a vertical climb turn behind the KAL 007 to preclude overshooting the slowing target. This is a quot…
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A 747 was. None. He definitely knew it was not a KC-135 or an RC-135. They're much smaller. But the biggest problem with this story is that his timeline of events. For he was supposedly performing these time-consuming maneuvers. The RC-135 …
▶ 27:59
And radar operators were observing the progress of the KAL 007. They had just given the KAL pilots permission to climb to 35,000 feet, which might explain why he thought the aircraft was slowing down in an attempt to evade him. It was actua…
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And the receipt of the final command, kill the intruder, at 6.25 was 10 minutes. At 6.26, he said he fired two missiles simultaneously. And according to him, they struck the 747, one near the tail, and the other one took off the left wing. …
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70 right, position-wise, of the plane as he reported to ground controllers. The heat-seeking missiles would have honed in on the engine, not the aircraft. And the closest to him would have been the number four engine. But contrary to later …
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transmitted at 626 that the target is destroyed. The Tokyo air traffic controllers reported that one minute later, he picked up a broken radio transmission from the KAL 007. Tokyo, Korea Air 007, 15,000 holding with rapid decompression, des…
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to sustain life below 12,500 feet would immediately begin an emergency descent. Had the 747 exploded, as the official version later recounted, it would have struck the surface of the ocean in less than three minutes. This didn't happen. The…
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It's not known if there was insufficient power in the remaining engines to maintain altitude or if another engine had failed due to the fuel lines being severed. Or possibly there were further complications from being hit. 27 minutes after …
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If KAL 007 had exploded, as the official reports stated the next day, then why would a Soviet search plane bother to make circles over the wreckage and rescue operations initiated? What was there to rescue? It blew up in the middle of the a…
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the temperature preservation of flesh, eventually the bodies would bloat and rise to the surface. With the exception of a few body parts that allegedly drifted ashore in Japan, 250 miles away, which could not be identified as having origina…
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According to the rapidly fabricated version of events, the Korean airliner had joined up with an RC-135, which had already probed the Soviet airspace on several occasions that night, and then had flown on to cross over the Soviet airspace. …
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The Russians were left with no choice but to shoot it down. The Americans, of course, were to blame. It was then who placed the 269 innocent passengers at risk for their own reasons. The Americans, by their deceitful actions, the Soviets sa…
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they went for the disinformation campaign. The end result is that the world press swallowed the Soviet version and even came up with other reinforcing stories that the Korean 747 had indeed been a CIA spy mission. The Washington Post headli…
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But for some reason, they were told to go with the story because they don't do this on their own. The piece referred to originally appeared in the British Defense Attaché magazine. But when the author of the article who claimed the KAL 007 …
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and no remarkable or inside knowledge of the event. In other words, it was handed to him to put his name on, and he did so. Then in 1984, a Yale graduate student by the name of David Pearson wrote an article for The Nation that stated the U…
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In the end, even President Reagan denounced the Soviets as murderers and called for an international investigation. The issue faded into history and was all but forgotten. One of the generals were promoted to head of all Soviet air defense.…
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in the actual shoot down, became the personal military advisor to Mikhail Gorbachev, which is really suspect. The actual pilot that shot the missile was not so lucky. It seems that in the Russian military, as in other forces, the proverbial…
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to make another hole in your shoulder boards for a new star, he was instead ostracized. After the arrival of the investigating committee, he was, in his own words, suddenly a son of a bitch. Those are his words. During the investigation, wh…
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In the grand reckoning, he said, I have no doubt that we were right. A foreign aircraft was in our airspace for two and a half hours. And during that time, it covered a distance of more than 2,000 kilometers. All the air traffic control ser…
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These things are tracked all over the world. There were more than one country that knew all of this was going on because they all have radars. Then came out a 17 part expose of the Soviet coverup surrounding the KAL 007, which ran between D…
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the most accurate and in-depth version of the incident ever published. According to this report, which was done by the Soviets post, I guess we should say by the Russians, because it's post fall of the Soviet Union. The wreckage of KAL 007 …
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According to a Soviet diver who had examined the wreck, the main thing was not what we had seen, but what we had not seen. The divers found practically no human bodies or remains. What had became of the 269 passengers and nine crew members.…
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They had to have been rescued or recovered immediately after the crash. If this is so, then the survivors or their bodies were transported either to the island or somewhere else. There were several small towns around that area. Where did th…
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And served as a primary destination for American POWs taken in Korea. And some of those received from Vietnam. That's the same city is what he's talking about. That was near where that aircraft was shot down. But why would the Soviets care …
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That they could testify that they had been ambushed and that there was no warning, no gunshots across the nose, no blinking lights, nothing? Hardly. It was more likely that they were victims of a far greater, darker plot. Only one small men…
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so as to make any merger with totalitarian governments impossible. It is probable that with his discovery of the shadow world of international finance and power brokers and their goal of globalism and control of international relationships …
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You know? I'm surprised, though, about, like you were saying in the article, that it was written. Were they, in the article, were they actually telling the truth? About what? About the attack and what happened to the helicopter. The CIA was…
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About what? About the scandal with the airplane. The article that came out from the Soviet Union or Russia, post-Soviet Union, was the most complete one. The other article, that's what I'm saying. We've talked about like four different arti…
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Okay, I gotcha. Yeah, and that didn't come out of the Western press. That came out of Russia post-Soviet Union collapse. Yeah. Crazy. Yeah, and I find it interesting since this is... We've talked about this because we found this same materi…
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And I was looking for different articles that were written at the time. Almost no one talked about the fact that the congressman was on that flight. And what's even more important, if you remember the one book we did, there was a whole gagg…
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The others, instead of leaving D.C. and going to Alaska and then going to Korea, they unexpectedly had to go to California. And then they made their flight arrangements from California to Alaska to Korea, which put them on an aircraft that …
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Larry McDonald of the congressional gaggle that went was the only one on this particular aircraft. The rest of them flew separately because they unexpectedly inserted a stop in California, which then put their connecting flight on a just ea…
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But then there's a ton of bodies. And then you have the one in Russia, 007, where there's no bodies. And it was the exact same thing. We know for a fact it was a missile hitting the engine of the flight 007, the KAL flight. And then there's…
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doctors because of course you had the two whistleblowers the military guy and the CIA guy coming back to the states to tell that they had discovered the CIA narco on Lockerbie and you had the congressman on the one the KAL007 there's defini…