Dr. Peter Beter Audio Letter 77 : Nuclear War; America; Russia - July 28, 1982
Channel: Peter Beter
Date: 2014-10-17

Dr. Peter David Beter - Audio Letter 77 - July 28, 1982
Text: http://www.peterdavidbeter.com/docs/all/dbal77.html
MP3: http://archive.org/download/DrPeterBeter_AudioVideoLetters/drpeterbetter_audioletter_77.mp3
(1) The growing momentum toward Nuclear War I
(2) America's domestic shift onto a war footing
(3) The rising pitch of Russian anti-war warnings

" Hello, my friends, this is Dr. Beter. Today is July 28, 1982,
and this is my AUDIO LETTER(R) No. 77.

Early this month, on July 6, there was an unusual news report
from Russia. That day an Aeroflot Jet Transport had crashed on
take-off from Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport. It was a
spectacular flaming crash that killed all 90 persons on board.
What was unusual about this news item was that it was made public
so quickly. Usually plane crashes in Russia are announced more
quietly and often after a delay of hours or even days--but not
this time. The Aeroflot flight that crashed on July 6 was an
international flight bound for Africa. Some of the passengers
were students returning to their homes in Sierra Leone and
Senegal. Under the circumstances, Russian authorities had no
choice but to release the news without delay. Within hours it
was included in news reports around the world.

Within hours after the Moscow tragedy, investigators at the
scene discovered that this had been no ordinary plane crash. In
the midst of the twisted, smoking wreckage of what had been the
Aeroflot plane, conclusive proof of sabotage was found. A report
about the sabotage was flashed to KGB headquarters at Dzerzhinsky
Square in Moscow. There the report was directed to a special
task group assigned to deal with growing acts of internal
disruption in the Soviet Union.

A mounting campaign to create internal turmoil in Russia is
going on, created by Bolshevik agents there. So far there has
been little news about this in the West, but it's a real and
deepening problem. Within 36 hours the KGB special task group
was able to confirm what had been suspected. The sabotage of the
Aeroflot jet had been carried out by one of the Bolshevik
disruption groups which have been under surveillance in the
Moscow area. These groups, like others all across Russia, are
being financed and directed by the Bolsheviks here--now
headquartered in the United States.

The KGB notified the Kremlin of the results of its
investigation of the Aeroflot sabotage early on July 8, just two
days after the crash. Those suspected of having carried out the
sabotage were under arrest, but the question remained: how to
send a message to the Bolsheviks in the United States to cease
and desist from similar acts? It does no good to talk to
America's present rulers. Action of some kind was required, and
fast. Various possibilities were discussed and rejected for
various reasons. Retaliation for the Aeroflot crash had to be
designed to convey a clear message to the American Bolsheviks in
terms they understand. The message the Kremlin wanted to send
was:

We know what you did to our plane. We have the means to
destroy you and the will to use it if necessary.

For the message to be effective, time was of the essence, and
so a "target of opportunity" order was given jointly to the KGB
and the Russian Space Command. The KGB was ordered to select an
American air liner for destruction within 24 hours. The
criterion for selection was to be a passenger list as similar as
possible to that of the sabotaged Aeroflot plane. The Aeroflot
plane had carried many foreign passengers and a total of 90
persons had been aboard, therefore the KGB was ordered to select
a commercial air liner in the United States with similar
characteristics; that is, there must be at least 90 persons
aboard and an unusually high proportion of foreign passengers.
The Russian Space Command would then have the responsibility of
destroying the air liner on take-off, just like the Aeroflot
plane. [...]"