The materials declassified by the Japanese Foreign Ministry concerning a number of events in the 70s and 80s of the last century refer to secret negotiations between the Japanese and US authorities over the South Korean liner shot down by the USSR on September 1, 1983.
Officially, Washington said that Moscow had deliberately destroyed the South Korean Boeing. However, two months after the tragedy, a senior US administration official told the Japanese Foreign Ministry that the Soviet Union shot down the plane by mistake - it was confused with an American air reconnaissance aircraft.
Recall that on September 1, 1983, the South Korean Boeing-747 en route from New York to Seoul. For some unknown reason, he deviated from his course and entered the closed Soviet airspace in Kamchatka. He managed to fly to Sakhalin, where he was shot down by the Soviet Air Force.
According to Moscow, the plane performed a reconnaissance function. All 269 people on board were killed. According to the results of the investigation, experts of the International Civil Aviation Association (ICAO) came to the conclusion that the pilots of the airliner, for some unknown reason, incorrectly set up their autopilot and did not specify the route.
We add that in 1997 a former high-ranking Japanese military intelligence officer published the book "The Truth About the Flight of KAL 007", which tells that the downed plane was carrying out a mission of the American special services. As a result of his own research, Tanaka came to the conclusion that the American intelligence services deliberately sent a passenger plane into Soviet airspace in order to identify classified objects in the USSR air defense system.
As Tanaka emphasizes, the United States at that time made every effort to collect information about the Soviet air defense in the Far East, which in 1982 was modernized and significantly strengthened.
Recall that Ray McGovern, who worked as a CIA analyst for seven US presidents and is now a member of the Coordination Council of Intelligence Veterans, urges not to believe everything that Washington is trying to feed the world “right away” - after all, he already lied about the South Korean Boeing crash.
“It is worth stopping and remembering how the US government has manipulated her in the past - including the episode of the KAL007 tragedy, when the Reagan administration blatantly perverted the facts,” he says toughly. The expert tells the story of the destruction of a liner flying over secret military installations of the USSR.
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“American intelligence also knew that this tragedy was the result of a mistake, not a deliberate murder - as well as the tragedy of July 3, 1988, when the American cruiser Vincennes fired a missile that shot down an Iranian passenger liner in the Persian Gulf, when US President Ronald Reagan called these actions by "explainable accident" - says the scout.
However, to denigrate Moscow, “the Reagan administration concealed exculpatory evidence obtained by American radio intelligence - then the US mantra became“deliberate attack on a civilian passenger plane”, and the cover of one of Newsweek magazine's issues appeared with the headline“Murder in the Sky”.
Especially when you remember that the head of the US News Agency, Charles Wick, instructed the leading staff to “create a special working group to promote this story abroad. Simply put, the goal was to vilify the Soviet Union as much as possible."
Moreover, according to the American media, in 1983 “the Reagan administration went so far as to publish a fake transcript of the UN Security Council's radio intelligence data”! “It was only 10 years later that the full version of the transcript of the secret negotiations - including those passages that the Reagan administration withdrew - did it become clear that many central elements of the American version of those events were fake,” writes McGovern.