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We are approaching the twentieth anniversary of
the Korean Airliner Atrocity -- the Soviet shootdown
of KAL-007 over international waters on September
1, 1983, after it had overflown the Kamchatka Penninsula
and Sakhalin Island while incompetently off course.
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tragic event -- nearly 300 people were killed
-- lends itself to students
of conspiracy thinking because both leftwing,
rightwing, and no-wing nuts, and Western stooges
and tools of Soviet disinformation, and 'The
Nation' magazine (and the NY Times), and paranoid
North Americans imagining the DC gummint had
betrayed surviving passengers trapped in a
Bolshie GULag, fastened onto the event like
an army of barnacles.There
were even two made-for-TV Hollywood 'docu-dramas'
(Angela Lansbury was in one--
Donald Sutherland was the
'CIA
spook' who confessed to her it was a US gummint
plot). |
Oberg
Articles on the KAL-007 Atrocity |
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A number of anti-Reagan fanatics funded some programs
to convince relatives of the victims to blame
the US government, and go on national TV and break
down in anguish denouncing the CIA, and otherwise
freak out over phony conspiracy arguments -- all
for a greater ideological 'good', these fanatics
must have imagined. I thought it was atrociously
cold-blooded and cynical manipulation of the grief-stricken,
whom the fanatics only saw as means to a political
end.
I will be expanding this corner
of my home page to include more of the materials
I wrote on the aftermath -- especially the halfwitted
propagandistic echoes. And I'm open to suggestions
about any current websites that feature crackpot
theories (or helpful analyses) about this tragedy,
so I can link to them from my 20th anniversary
page.
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More
Oberg Articles on the KAL-007 Atrocity |
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Murray
Sayle's Articles and Letters |
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