Incident at Sakhalin: The True Mission of KAL Flight 007

   Michel Brun, Robert Bononno (Translator)

   Avalon Publishing, 1995

   Late on the evening of September 1, 1983, Secretary of State George Schultz made a televised announcement to the nation that the Soviets had shot down KAL Flight 007 in the "cold-blooded murder of 269 innocent people." But already detailed reports in the Japanese newspapers suggested that those 269 passengers had seen something no government wanted them to see. This in-depth examination offers chilling insights into this tragedy. 

Korean Air Flight 007 

Korean Air Flight 007, also known as KAL 007 or KE007, was a Korean Air civilian airliner shot down by Soviet jet interceptors on August 31, 1983 just west of Sakhalin island. KAL 007 carried 269 passengers and crew, including a U.S. congressman. There were no survivors.

The Soviet Union stated it did not know the aircraft was civilian, and suggested it had entered Soviet airspace as a deliberate provocation to test their response capabilities. The shoot-down attracted a storm of protest from across the world, particularly the United States. 

FROM THE PUBLISHER:

The KAL 007 tragedy was one of the most dramatic and dangerous episodes in the last phase of the Cold War. Despite two official investigations, innumerable television reports, newspaper and magazine articles, and books, the startling truth of this incident - in which 269 civilian passengers and crew lost their lives, and the world came closer to nuclear war than at any time since the Cuban Missile Crisis - has been obscured by a brazen and ongoing cover-up. Here, as a result of more than ten years of research, Michel Brun reveals the truth, which at least four governments have colluded to conceal. Incident at Sakhalin not only demolishes the official story of a lone civilian airliner flying innocently off course. It does much more.

The book establishes that as the Korean Boeing 747 approached the Russian island of Sakhalin, so too did a number of U.S. military and reconnaissance aircraft in an ill-conceived intelligence and provocation operation that turned into a two-hour battle in which thirty or more U.S. Air Force and Navy personnel were killed and ten or more U.S. aircraft were shot down. Contrary to "official" reports from the United States and the International Civil Aviation Organization, KAL 007 was not shot down over Sakhalin but was destroyed off Honshu, the main Japanese island, nearly an hour later than the reports claimed and by means and for reasons still not clear.

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