The Survivors of KAL 007: the evidences and the whereabouts
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The time has come to present, in the fullest way possible publicly, the results of the investigation, at the present stage, into the whereabouts and the conditions of passengers of KAL 007. "The fullest way possible" needs, first, to be qualified. What you will read are mainly the results, rather than the detailed documentation of sources. This is because of the following:
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1. In some cases, there are definite confidentiality commitments that the Committee for the Rescue has made to family members of the passengers. We await permission for release. These commitments need to be honored for their own sakes, and for continued cooperation.
2. Follow-up investigation and verification, in some cases, are presently in progress
3. The safety of informants may still be at stake.
The information in this article entails research results, first and second hand testimony, and "educated conjecture". Where this has involved sources not directly communicated to the Committee for the Rescue, that fact has been noted. Some information will be well detailed and other information meagerly so (for reasons given above). I am well aware, especially due to the contrast between the detailed and the meager, of the incomplete and in some cases the vapid impression this will leave. An impression crying for authentication. I can do nothing about this. God grant that there will be a new and thorough investigation into the long neglected and heartrending situation of so many people of so many countries, so many children, left abandoned and unsought after. For those who say that so much time has passed - is it worth the effort to "dig up the past"? - I would reply in question - what time could you give, until which year after such an event, would it be worth it to still be digging? Which year is the proper year to give up on your loved one? On someone else's loved one?
Firstly, there have been, contrary to common perception, contacts, after the shootdown, of passengers with their families.
The most dramatic and startling has come recently to our attention though it had occurred long ago.
In 1991, we were informed by a mother of children who were passengers of KAL 007 that another women who herself was the wife of a passenger on KAL 007, had received a phone call from her husband shortly after the shootdown, but the conversation had been immediately cut off. She supplied identifying info concerning this women and her husband but we did not make any steps in contact. It is still hard for me to comprehend why I did not pursue the matter. It would have been possible, I think, to make correlation with the passenger identity through the passenger manifest.
In any case, about a year ago, the Committee for the Rescue of KAL 007 Survivors received a letter from the daughter of a passenger and, more recently, a letter from the niece of this same passenger. The daughter told us the story of her mother telling the family when they were all young, that she had gotten a telephone call from her husband after the shootdown. The niece, further, added to the information that her aunt had sent the recording from the telephone of her husband for voice analysis. These two girls were in their teens at the time. Now, of course, they are grown women. It further became clear, from details that emerged, that this women who had received the call was, indeed, the woman whom we had heard about in 1991.
We finally made contact with the wife of the passenger, and after initial hesitation in communicating with us, she did so, and related to us the following story: The call had come in while she was out of the house and was taken by the answering machine. On returning home, she listened and heard her husband's voice, but it was cut off almost immediately. She sent the tape to her lawyers who then had it sent to governmental and "proper" authority. The voice on the tape, apparently, turned out to be of her husband, for she was told that the tape was a "bleed thru" of a previous conversation with him which had been taped over. She knew that this was not true for the simple reason that the tape was a new tape that had just been put into the answering machine. There had been no previous conversation!! The voice said "We'll be ..." and the last word was cut off, but sounded like "home" or "up". This women even now castigates herself that she was not home at the time to receive the call instead of the call going on the answering machine, and that only after time had been wasted for the outgoing message. And then the cut-off!
Our main endeavor now is to get the original, or second best, copy of the recording. It would certainly help in opening up the case again. But this women had been fairly well traumatized by opposition from various quarters, and opposition that had gone on for the first year of her revealing the phone call.
This incident is very similar to another report the Committee received - this time through a third party.
"...several weeks after KAL 007 was shot down, I was listening to KGO TALK RADIO in San Francisco. I was surprised to hear a young woman who called in to talk about the fate of KAL 007 announce that her close friend's fiancé had been aboard. She went on to reveal that the fiancé had telephoned after the flight was downed by a Soviet interceptor. He regretfully informed his fiancée that he was safe but that he was certain he would never see her again. Has anyone contacted your webmaster with this type of information? Did any other passengers contact loved ones? After all these years, the voice of the young woman continues to haunt me. She sounded sincere and overwhelmed by the situation. My husband was a POW who did not return from North Vietnam (alive) and the fate of the passengers of KAL 007 is as troubling as the abandonment of our POWs."
To the two above reports, I will add four other reports that we consider credible but needing investigation - although these are reports do not involve passenger contacts specifically to family members:
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