The Last Flight of 007 L. Fletcher Prouty, (Gallery May 1985) The flight of KAL 007: Evidence of Conspiracy R.B.Cutler, (Cutler Publications, US 1985) “At one stage it seemed probable that the Freeze movement would halt the (MX) project altogether; only the providential shooting-down of the Korean airliner, KAL007, enabled Reagan to push his […]
See note(1) By some standards, the loss of 269 souls aboard Korean Air Lines flight 007 on August 31, 1983, was a modest disaster. The Titanic, for example, claimed 1503 lives; the Lusitania 1198. But historians may come to believe that the political implications of the downing of the civilian 747 airliner by a […]
There has been much discussion about whether KAL 007 was an overhead intelligence platform or not. This article does not attempt to directly answer this question. Instead it reviews the reasons why the US should attempt technical intelligence gathering around September 1983 – when KAL 007 was downed – and the means available to […]
Paul Johnson, former editor of the New Statesman turned ‘new right’ Thatcherite, turned his hack hand to KAL 007 in a review of Alexander Dallin’s Black Box KAL 007 and the Superpowers (University of California Press 1985) in the Times Literary Supplement (August 23 1985). Johnson asks the question: “How could a Korean pilot […]
Books The Flight of KAL 007: evidence of conspiracy R. B. Cutler Cutler is the editor/producer of the Grassy Knoll Gazette, one of the JFK assassination journals. Over the years he has produced a great many books/pamphlets on the case. This is a 40 page pamphlet full of Cutler’s beautiful drawings and maps which […]
[…] a matter of opinion.) Copies are available from Barbara Goodwin, 1 Norland Square, London W11 4PX. (£1 in UK) The Target is Destroyed (What really happened to 007) Seymour Hersh, (Faber and Faber, London 1986) There isn’t much worth saying about this that hasn’t already been said by R.W. Johnson in his long review […]
[…] the Merseyside Police Authority on this issue, has a new book-length report on the police use of computers, published by the GLC. For details see Publications. RR 007 Murray Sayles’ long apologia for the official version – “a conspiracy of circumstances” – in the Sunday Times (May 20th and 27th 1984). More interesting is […]
[…] private intelligence agency, something like our Economic League). Western Goals was headed by Larry McDonald, the Chairman of the John Birch Society. McDonald subsequently died in KAL 007. Larry Flynt suggests in his Hustler piece that KAL 007 was sent into Soviet airspace precisely in the hope that it would get shot down and […]
[…] heavy-weight far-right American circles as one of the committee organising the first Larry McDonald Memorial Dinner. (Conservative Digest February 1985). McDonald, a Bircher, was killed when KAL 007 was shot down. Predictably, some of the US far-right think it was shot down to kill McDonald. He thus became a ‘martyr’. It’s an ill wind […]
[…] decline, a Marxist perspective would produce an accurate picture. Grassy Knoll Gazette The February 1985 edition of the Grassy Knoll Gazette (see also the review of the 007 pamphlet) contains the transcript of a radio phone-in conversation with Gordon Novel. Novel is one of those people who have appeared at various points in the […]
