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located in coastal areas. Information on LORAN coverage in the Kamchatka
 Peninsula to Sakhalin Island area is not immediately available, nor do we
 know if the Korean airliner could use this system.

Third Charge: Flight 007 Linked with Other US Intelligence Efforts.
 Kirsanov claims that, in addition to the US RC-135 off Kamchatka, the
 following US reconnaissance platforms were operating in the area prior to
 and during the airliner's flight:

-- A second RC-135 was flying off the Kuril Islands.

-- A US Navy P-3 Orion was over the Sea of Okhotsk and another was
 over the Sea of Japan.

-- An E-3A AWACS was monitoring both KAL 007 and the reacting Soviet
 fighters.

-- The frigate USS Badger was operating off Vladivostok in the Sea of
 Japan.

Comment: In addition to the RC-135 off Kamchatka, the only other US
 reconnaissance aircraft in the area during 007's flight was a P-3 Orion
 which was operating in the Bering and Chukchi Seas some 2,000 mm northeast
 of the shootdown site. Other P-3 missions were flown after the shootdown
 over the Sea of Japan, off Kamchatka, and again to the Chukchi Sea.
 Another RC-135 mission began off Kamchatka on 1 September -- six hours after
 the shootdown. The USS Badger had been collecting intelligence off
 Vladivostok since mid-August. Information on AWACS activity is not
 immediately available.

Other Charges: Kirsanov also charged that the Korean pilot and copilot
 had connection to US intelligence services and that the flight carried 11
 extra crewmembers to operate intelligence equipment.

Comment: no association with
 the CIA

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