The mystery of KAL 007

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I was watching that TV movie with Jessica Fletcher, lol. Well I did feel rather tacky; I did get interested further into the mystery of KAL 007. I knew the jet was shot over the USSR in Sept.1983. That's not in contention here, what is, is what the KAL jet was doing over two Soviet Air bases? Here is an excerpt from a article I found on the net:

But in that late summer of 1983 the world was holding its breath. Soviet air defenses had been ordered to a much higher state of combat readiness, allegedly in response to incursions by U.S. Navy fighters into Soviet airspace over the Kurile Islands during a battle-group exercise in April. Except for the retaliatory power of the U.S. submarine forces, the United States was believed to be vulnerable to a Soviet first strike.

Meanwhile, Insight has learned, the Soviets had scheduled a secret test of an SS-25 intercontinental ballistic missile on the night of the shootdown, a direct violation of the SALT II arms treaty. The Soviets had deployed a special electronic-warfare aircraft to jam U.S. tracking of this missile test - something that U.S. insiders say may have affected the Soviet tracking of KAL 007.

The warhead of the test missile was scheduled to land on the Kamchatka peninsula over which KAL 007 strayed. A U.S. RC-135 spy plane, code-named Cobra Eye, was flying in the area to monitor the missile test but exhausted its fuel and returned to its base near Alaska prior to the attack on the civilian jetliner. It was on the ground when the presence of KAL 007 in the area apparently forced the Soviets to abort the test and Col. Gen. Ivan M. Tretyak, commander of the Far Eastern Military District, ordered Soviet attack planes to "kill the intruder."

Further:

Why was the jet so far off its designated flight path to Seoul? Evidence pointed to a technical navigational error, in which the inertial navigation system (INS) failed to take control of the autopilot, causing the jet to fly 365 miles off course after it took off from Anchorage, Alaska. "It was a real tragedy," KAL attorney Andrew Harakas tells Insight. "The pilot didn't do something technically proper. They couldn't reprogram the INS in flight. They would have had to fly back, and if they did they would have been penalized by the company."

That is the official line; the US said that the Soviets shot down the KAL jet without any warning. When the US went to the UN this is what transpired:

Korean Airlines Flight 007, with its 269 passengers and crew, had strayed off course over a Soviet missile installation in the far Pacific and was shot out of the sky by Maj. Gennady Osipovich, in his Sukhoi-15 fighter. Minute by minute, top secret Americ an intelligence stations near the Soviet border had monitored Osipovich's pursuit of Flight 007 as it cruised on the last leg of its journey to Seoul, and its destruction at 2:26 p.m. Washington time, Aug. 31, 1983. Working with other producers, we fashi oned a slick video which was played at the Security Council Sept. 6, and beamed around the world by satellite-marking some thing of a new era of government-to-people diplomacy.

The video was powerful, effective and wrong. American government media gurus have come a long way since they dispatched pro-American films by dogsled to Lapplanders in isolated Norwegian communities in the early 1950s. Skilled technicians of today's mult iplying forms of information make it easier to reach, and bamboozle, the public instantly. But government information managers are not usually to blame. They can only communicate what they are told by their superiors. Frequently it is what they are not t old that is the problem.

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Shultz had been told by briefers from the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency that the Soviets might have thought they were shooting down a U.S. spy plane. According to his memoirs, Shultz dismissed the notion, telling briefers th eir theory was implausible, and reporting to his staff that intelligence agencies "have no compunction about fooling you."
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But within the last few years, additional taped evidence has become public that makes clear that I was given only selective information-some of the pilots' words and none of the comments of the ground controllers. Those full conversations reveal that the Russians believed the intruder aircraft was an American RC-135 reconnaissance plane, many of which flew routine missions in the area. The tapes, which are compiled in the final report of the International Civil Aviation Organization's investigation of the incident released in 1993 told me what I did not hear.

http://www.kimsoft.com/korea/kal-007.htm

The theory is , why would KAL 007 747 would go over two Soviet Air bases (one in the Katmacahka, and another over Sakhalin Island), to get the Soviet air defenses "hot" so the RC-135 would be able to detect the response time, etc. The pilot was not responding to the intercepting Su-15's advances, like flashing his lights, tipping his wings, and shooting four cannon bursts on the side of the Jet? Why wouldn't the 747 respond at all? Then when the KAL 007 was finally hit the pilot was commanding the plane for a further 11 minutes but did not give any May Day, or location. Although I did not give all the details, the mystery of 007 is evident. Was the US using the passenger jet in the blind hope that it would be shot down to test Soviet responses? Or was the Pilot simply off course?