[lbo-talk] letter to editor

[c b]

So Clark Clifford has now come up in two recent threads, and that
reminds me that when I was going through his papers at the Library of
Congress I found a 1983 letter from William Fulbright raising the
question of whether the Soviets' KAL 007 shootdown was some sort of
American put-up job. I still have the letter in PDF if anyone's
interested. I vaguely recall that there were conspiracy theories
floated in the left press at the time.

SA

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CB: Yeah, as I recall the plane kind of recklessly violated the
accepted airspace limits of the time, and did some other strange
things like ignoring all kinds of "wing tips" or something from the
Soviet fighter jets. Then the plane was flight "007" in an era
conscious of James Bond as "Agent 007". I'm not sure how one gets
around that the pilots would have to be knowingly  committing suicide.