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Izvestiya Reports and Interviews about KAL007 Shootdown Includes An interview from Itogi with a diver who recovered the wreckage. DISCLAIMER:
In January 2002, I received some e-mail and notes regarding my
so-called participation in the American Patriot Friends Network (APFN) discussion concerning an alleged cover-up of the
KAL007 shootdown. I am not in any way
involved with APFN, nor do I believe that there was
any U.S. cover-up associated with the shootdown of
the airplane. Anyone is free to link to this page. The appearance of a
link to this page (http://www.royfc.com/kal007.html) on the APFN site or elsewhere does not mean that I agree or
disagree with their ideas, notions and/or theories. I prefer to be left
out of it. --Roy Cochrun. Several
years ago, before the widespread use of the Worldwide Web, these files
appeared in archived format on a bulletin board service in Baltimore,
Maryland. There were two sets of files consisting of four series.
The first
set was of a series of articles written by a correspondent
located in Russia from the former Soviet newspaper Izvestiya,
who investigated the shootdown of KAL007 from the
Soviet side. The first series of files was in Russian, and the second was a
translation of those files by an unknown translator. The second
set was written by a U.S.-based Izvestiya
correspondent. Again, the first series was in Russian and the second in
English, probably by the same translator. Oddly, the
person who compiled the original archive mentions someone in the readme file who checked the translation , but never
his/her own name, nor that of the translator. The translator also
provides explanatory footnotes in the translations. For several
years Roy's Russian Resource has provided these files, as found on the
bulletin board, in ZIP format. To my amazement, the file has been
downloaded approximately 10 times a day since I first offered it. To my
chagrin, some never read my notes which pointed out that I am not the
translator, although I wish I were. It would look good on my
resume. The original
Russian and English versions of the files were hard to read.
Those were earlier times and software was not available to ease the
situation. Now, however, I have re-formatted the files into more
readable form. The Russian files have been converted to the more common
Win 1251 format. The English files have been reformatted to be easier
to read. Both may be read in Microsoft Word, version 6 or above.
They also may be read in Microsoft Wordpad under
Windows. In addition, they loaded up very nicely into Corel Wordperfect 8 and probably later versions. It should be
pointed out that these articles originally appeared in Izvestiya
while the first Gulf War was taking place.
In early
October 2001, one of the divers who searched the wreckage of KAL007 was
interviewed. The translation is here, but not the original
Russian interview. File created
26 September 1999. |