Page 2 Portland Obaarvar, Octobar 5,1983
Flight 007 update : Truth slips out
"Obscured by what will surely
be claimed as legitimate national
security matters, the U .S. govern
ment possessed the capability to
directly intercede during the en
tire sweep o f events culminating
in the annihilation o f Korean A ir
Lines Right 007. Few facts con
cerning that capability have been
brought to public attention.
"Based on the inform ation dis
closed by the Reagan Administra
tion during the last two weeks, it
is clear that a m ajor effort has
been undertaken to bewilder the
American people concerning the
capabilities o f U .S . A ir Force
RC-133, and. more importantly,
the National Security Agency.”
These words are from a Denver
Post article o f September 13th,
1983. written by Tom Bernard and
T . Edward Eskelson, former U.S.
A ir Force communications special
ists who Hew on RC-133 missions
based in Okinawa. This article, by
men who should know, has not been
picked up by the wire services or te
levision networks.
Ever since the U .S . government
has admitted that an RC-133 was in
the area o f the Korean airliner, it
has attempted to downplay its role,
saying the plane is little more than a
"passive listening device" and was
o ff the coast o f the U .S .S .R . "v er
ifying compliance with arms control
agreements.” President Reagan told
the media that the RC-133 was back
in Alaska an hour before Flight 007
was shot down.
"A s former crew members on an
RC-133, we find official statements
concerning the extent o f its involve
ment prioi to and following (he
K A L shootdown incompatible with
our experience," Bernard and Es
kelson wrote. The RC-133 is only
nominally an A ir Force plane.
W hile its flight crew is Strategic Air
Command, the electronics and com
munications part o f the plane are
under control o f A ir Force Security
personnel. They, in turn, are under
the operational control of the N a
tional Security Agency (N S A ).
“ It has been our experience," the
two writers said, "th a t, on occa
sion, NSA adjusts the orbits o f RC-
133» to that they «rill intentionally
penetrate the airspace o f a target na
tion. This is ordered for the purpose
of bringing the target country's air
defense systems into a state o f alert.
This allows the N S A to analyze the
potential flaws and weaknesses."
W hile the RC-133 that flew in
tandem with the K A L plane might
have returned to Alaska before the
plane was shot down, another re
placed it. The authors say the planes
are in the air in that strategic area 24
hours a day. " W e find the inference
made by President Reagan that the
Sakhalin-Kamchatka target area
was abandoned by the RC-133 inter
cept platform to be unbelievable
and contrary to N S A policy."
A key capability o f the RC-133,
they pointed out, is its ability to in
tercede. " T h e RC-133 has a super-
advanced, ultra-secure communica
tions system which is linked to the
most sophisticated communications
network in the world. This system,
sometimes referred to as a ‘ back
channel,* permits the instantaneous
reporting o f tactical intelligence to
the highest levels o f the U.S.
government, including the Presi
dent, from any location in the
world. A message intended for the
President is designated as a ‘critic’
and is required to be in the Presi
dent's hands no more than 10
minutes after the actual time of
transmission, for instance, from an
RC-133 orbiting over the Sea of
Japan."
Bernard and Eskelson believe
"th at the entire sweep o f events.. .
was meticulously monitored and an
alyzed instantaneously by U.S. in
telligence," and that (lie ' ‘official
U.S. version o f events is incomplete
and misleading." They add, "There
are serious questions in our minds as
to not only what specific role did the
capabilities o f the RC-133 play in
the eventual shooting down of the
K A I airliner, but also why these ca
pabilities were never utilized in an
attempt to head o ff the tragedy ."
Aditional cracks in the U.S. gov
ernment's story are slowly coming
to light:
Goucher joins
• New evidence shows the K A I
flight was closely coordinated with
the movements o f a Ferret-D intelli
gence satellite; that besides another
RC-133 in the area there were two
Orion naval planes, an A W A C S air
craft, and the U .S . frigate Badger
•T h e Soviets report the South
Korean plane carried eleven elec
tronics experts in addition to its
normal 18-member crew.
•A viatio n Heek 4 Space Tech-
nology o f August 22nd, a week be
fore the K A L flight, displayed a
map o f the U .S .S .R . captioned:
" U .S . Scrutinizing New Soviet Ra
d a r."
•British and Canadian papers
have stated that the U.S. intelligence
agencies have used similar airlines
o f other nations for spying for
years.
•T h e former chairman o f Japan's
joint chiefs o f staff said a Soviet pi
lot would have found it extremely
"d iffic u lt, almost impossible, to
have identified the type o f aircraft
or its emblem in the early morning
darkness." He noted that 747s, as
well ns U.S. and Japanese Orion
P3-C air surveillance craft and laige
aerial tankers flown by the U .S. Air
Force, are equipped with the same
anti-collision light, or strobe, that
the Soviet pilot reported seeing
Therefore it is reasonable to believe
the Soviet pilot thought he was
tracking a U .S. military plane
•Ernest Volkm an, national a f
fairs editor o f Defense Science
magazine, said Korean airlines
"regularly" make flights into Soviet
airspace to carry out military recon
naissance for the U .S.
•T h e London Dotty Express said
the fact that the KC-133 was in the
area during the K A LS penetration
of Soviet airspace, "means the A m
erican plane was using the airliner as
cover.” The Doily Express said RC-
133» fly from British territory as
well as from the U.S.
•The Son Erancisco Examiner re
ported. "O n e U.S. official with
close ties to (he military intelligence
said that carriers owned by govern
ments deemed friendly to the U.S
lack Studies staff
by Nathaniel Scoll
Seasons change, the old pass
away, what was is, and the new pro
fessor is a lady.
A t the end o f W inter Term ,
academic year 1982-83, the chair
man o f Portland State University’s
Black Studies Department, W illiam
" B ill" Little, resigned after a
lengthy dispute over departmental
policy. Dr. Little retained his facul
ty position and began a year o f sab
batical leave effective Fall Term of
this year. Dr. Darrell M illner, acting
director of Black Studies in 1976-77,
was named director effective Spring
Term. 1983.
With the shuffling o f departmental
heads complete, professor Candice
Coucher was hired to a tenured po
sition. Goucher's areas of teaching
will be Afro-A m erican History,
African History, and Southern A f
rican Workshop.
Southern
African
Workshop,
which begins in November, she said,
will focus mostly on South Africa
and give historical background on
its "racism and political situation."
P/ofessor Goucher did her under
graduate work at U S C in San Diego,
acquired her masters from Colum
bia University in New York City,
and is doind her P h .D . work at
U C L A . Her Black Studies areas in
clude African art and extensive ar
chaeology field work in Nigeria,
Ghana and other areas in West A f
rica. Most recently, she taught
Black Studies courses at U C L A .
" M y special research interest is
African technology— metal w ork
in g ," she said. " I hope to have the
opportunity to do some research in
the transfer o f African skills— speci
fically Black mending skills— to
American technology."
The European version of Black
History— the distorted version—can
best be corrected through archaeol
ogy, Goucher said. "Archaeology
serves as a corrective to history. It
allows one to get at the experience
of people," In addition, we need to
see what the "o ra l tradition and ar-
haeology tell us about the past."
'he has extensive training in the
ield of archaeology.
Married to a historian who ex
cels to join her in November, pio-
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are fitted in this country with cam
eras and other devices for intelli
gence collection." The newspaper
quoted a "defense source" as a f
firming that foreign-owned carriers
"are filled with cameras and sensing
devices at a handful o f U.S. bases"
including Andrews A ir Force Base
near Washington.
•T h e pilot o f the K A L plane »a>
a retired Arm y colonel, and highly
experienced, perhaps the senior man
in this line. Il was he who earlier this
year flew South Korea's dictator on
his visit to President Reagan.
•T h e New York Times wrote on
September 2, 1983, referring to U.S.
intelligence experts. "These experts
said that this week's incident came
against the backdrop o f an aggies
sive American effort to develop
technical intelligence penetration of
the Sea o f Okhotsk over more than
30 years and after more than a score
o f such incidents, many of them re
corded in considerable detail or re
constructed by American or allied
intelligence o fficials."
•Congressmen George Crockett
and John Conyers, Black Represen
(atives from Michigan, abstained
from the House vote condemning
the shootdown. Crockett said, " I f
Congressional investigations of our
Central Intelligcne Agency have
taught us anything it is that the
C IA 's covert operations do not rule
out the use o f civilian aircraft for re
connaissance purposes, including
the aircraft o f a surrogate nation
like Soulh K orea."
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Candtoe Goucher wHI teach Afro-American Htotory, African History,
and Southam Africa Workshop In Portland State University's Black
Studtoa Department.
(Photo: Richard J. Brown)
fessor Goucher is " p ro u d " to be a
part o f PSU's Black Studies Depart
ment. She thinks " it is appropriate”
to combine Afro-A m erican and A f
rican studies under the direction of
one departmental head, but the sees
the need for an additional course—
African art— a course the said she is
well-qualified to teach.
" I would like to see some African
art courses taught at P S U ," the
said. "T h e re are a lot o f resources in
Portland for teaching African art.
For example, there is the Paul Oe-
bauer c ollectio n — a world renowned
collection from Cameroon in West
A fric a ." In addition to that, she
mentioned the abundance o f sculp
tu re -w o o d and metal— and the
possibility o f masks, all easily acces
sible for teaching and researching at
the Art Museum.
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