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...static was heavy. The words that sounded above the crackle were an unfamiliar Russian military-aviation jargon. The pilots' voices were unemotional, as if they were reporting to their ground controllers on the progress of the most routine training exercise. All of which made the tape more eloquently horrifying when it was played in excerpt for a national television audience by President Reagan and in full for the United Nations Security Council by U.S. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick. In the translation, the pilot of the Soviet Sukhoi-15 interceptor who fired the missiles that blasted Korean Air Lines Flight...
Those terse words echoed louder in the world's consciousness than the millions of highly emotional ones that came pouring from government offices and the gatherings of ordinary citizens around the globe last week. Many questions about just what happened to Flight 007 remain. But the tape, recorded by the Japan Defense Agency and passed on to the U.S., was damning all the same...
Indeed, within hours after Kirkpatrick had played the tape at the U.N. the Soviets switched their line from "Who, me?" innocence to brazen defiance. Yes, said a statement by the official news agency TASS, the Soviets had "stopped" the flight. The reason, it said, was that although the plane was a civilian jet, it was on a spying mission for the U.S. That was a claim just about nobody outside the Communist world believed...
...dramatic high point of the speech was Reagan's playing a portion of the tape of the Soviet pilots. The U.S. got that tape from the Japanese government only after Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone had overruled his own intelligence advisers, who wanted to release only summaries. Japanese intelligence officials feared that public playing of the tape would alert the Soviets to their methods of gathering data. It did; by late in the week, Japanese recordings of Soviet pilots' chatter had dropped two-thirds, because the Soviets had changed their radio frequencies and codes. In both Japan and the U.S., however...
...legal experts argue that KSL would first have to establish the fact that it had a proprietary interest in the film. To do so, KSL might argue that it had a right to the tape because the station was part of a "pool" arrangement that KUED made with local television outlets. Indeed, KUED has already shared three minutes of footage on the operation with commercial stations. But exactly how much film KUED agreed to release under the arrangement, made orally, is a matter of dispute between the public and private stations...