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Typescript transcript of interview with Gen Ivan Tretyak USSR Air Force, Far East. Subjects include his role as commander of the Far Eastern Military district; airspace violations during the Cold War; shooting down of Korean Airlines flight KAL 007; reporting to Dmitry Ustinov about the incident; Ustinov ordering the plane to be shot down; standoff with American planes in neutral waters; USSR claims that it was not a passenger plane but a reconnaissance plane, after inspection of seabed by Russian submarine; Politburo session following the incident; American violations triggering the shooting down of KAL 007; the lack of dead bodies recovered; accuracy of Early Warning Systems; was shooting down of KAL 007 a mistake?; the possibility that Treyak was misled by USSR authorities regarding the true nature of KAL 007; Andropov chairing the Politburo meeting ; Original interview conducted in Russian, transcript in English; 25pp
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