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Let's Hear It for the Boy I look forward every month to the arrival of TAS. We currently receive only two periodicals at home, TAS and World (we have to get that since my wife is...
...Johnson is as far off base either way...
...In any event, this would make R.W...
...arry W. Sandberg, M.D...
...This is hard for me to believe, as the man who founded the Church of England, Henry VIII, divorced two women, Katherine of Aragon and Anne of Cleves...
...It was obvious that without a solid South, Kennedy had no possibility of winning the election...
...Nor does he address the inevitable follow-up question: If the KGB was so cunning, capable of such feats as manipulating the Western media, then how come the Soviet Union collapsed...
...Mr...
...In Russia, we called this a "public KGB informer's vigilance...
...mere children will govern them...
...While the mix-up had no more than incidental significance for my story, it was of more than incidental significance to McLemore...
...I sincerely regret any embarrassment and anguish he had to endure because of this error...
...Neither the cockpit voice recorder, nor the flight data recorder, was mounted on "the rear bulkhead...
...arl Shugaar Washington, D.C...
...I like your publication so much I read every word of it...
...Young, I should not represent her as a pure embodiment of diabolically sly witch-hunting...
...Symington's suite to withdraw the offer and to ask him to be silent about it...
...Was he there...
...Oberg devotes about one-quarter of his article to this question...
...I never "revealed" any such thing...
...Lev Navrozov Riverdale, New York Cathy Young replies: I confess that I have not seen all or even most of the articles Lev Navrozov has contributed to the Russian press...
...It was his KWTX colleague, cameraman Jim Peeler...
...Navrozov does not explain his reference to the "imaginary" threat of Stalinism which, according to him, mass-market hack George Orwell cased to scare the bourgeois public...
...Tragicomically, in her survey of the Russian press for The American Spectator (October 1992 and September 1993), Cathy Young had picked only those four articles of mine that she could readily distort in order to smear me as, for example, an anti-Semite...
...The idea that some of us are determined to think the worst of U.S...
...But, then, what can you expect from someone who, against all evidence, scoffs at the idea of KGB disinformation, or the possibility that Western coverage of one of Soviet CORRESPONDENCE (continued from page 87) Communism' s last major crimes was colored by our elites' gleeful disdain for anti-Communism...
...My own guess is that the notation refers not to deadheading passengers but to a minimum-descent-altitude "decision height" which would be published on the approach charts for the specific destination airport...
...Also, if there were six people deadheading, 1200 would make them a rather corpulent lot...
...In any event, Oberg moves on to the ICAO report, which he touts as the final answer to the KAL 007 mystery...
...Apart from his bad manners he displays a less than complete regard for the truth since, despite his claim, he made no effort whatsoever to contact either me or F. Reese Brown, the editor of the journal in which my review appeared...
...Immediately after the nomination was secure, Jack Kennedy, Bobby...
...Navrozov's theory that conservative small-town Lutherans backed Hitler out of revulsion against big-city "filth," exemplified by (Jewish) Freudianism, it hinges on some proof that small-town German voters had heard of Freud...
...Freeman went on to be secretary of agriculture in Jack Kennedy's cabinet...
...From additional considerations I estimate that the probability of this chain of mistakes is less than one in a million...
...I cannot account for this notation being on a weight manifest unless the captain was attempting to estimate the weight of the aircraft during the approach phase of the flight for the purpose of computing the proper approach speeds...
...He should acknowledge as well the limits of his own probabilistic methodology...
...but incompetence, no...
...When Bobby broke the news, he was given a profane Texas tongue-lashing and told to go back to his brother and tell him that he, Lyndon Johnson, was going to be the V.P...
...Navrozov sees fit to bring up my personal association with him years ago as a translator of his columns into his native Russian for the émigré weekly the New Gazette, where I then worked...
...It is to confidently assert that it was a "chain of accidental circumstances...
...Return to KAL 007...
...We currently receive only two periodicals at home, TAS and World (we have to get that since my wife is editorand-publisher Joel Belz's sister...
...second, "the crew should have double-checked their course (as required by airline policy and by good airmanship)" but they didn't...
...In the sidebar titled "Useful Idiots: An Honor Roll," R.W...
...A memo "falling into the hands of Yeltsin officials" is just too cozy to be believable considering the source, be it the U.N...
...I can use the same approach based on Oberg's article...
...In my review, I made the probabilistic argument explicit and used the probabilities developed from actual data by the authors to reach the same conclusion...
...To this day, I do not know why CBS sat on this story...
...You would be wise to forego this easy kind of pop journalism and return to the conservative concepts of class, style, and balance...
...After a bitter floor fight John Kennedy wrested the nomination away from favorite Sen...
...As for the divorce issue, it seems to prove my general point about the humbug surrounding the royal family and the Established Church...
...Ranting and raving is not enough...
...We had lounges and a coffee machine, and the medical station became a hangout for the reporters...
...was the standard allowance for a person plus luggage...
...their words and deeds are against the Lord, defying his glorious presence...
...But I do not want to respond in kind...
...Those radio conversations may have been enough to convince Captain Chun that all had to be well with his navigation...
...Regarding David Miller, I regret that my inquiry letter of last August 1 did notreach him, but if this thousand-word letter had been his reply, I wouldn't have changed a thing...
...What came back to them was shocking...
...First, I find in it no references to, no retractions of, and no excuses for the Soviet lies that he promulgated in his original article about the airliner's behavior...
...Finally, I'm delighted that Ernest Volkman confirms the accuracy of my description of "Project Censored...
...The fact that the entry "1200 D/H" was scratched out and moved further down on the manifest would make sense, as this is a critical piece of data necessary when executing an instrument approach at the end of a flight...
...Why should anyone be allowed to have more children than I? But Chi An's story takes an ironic twist when she finally leaves China with her one little boy to join her husband who is studying in the U.S...
...Your October issue is no exception...
...If you cannot have this abortion done abroad, then the factory director orders you to return to China immediately...
...Since the entry was involved with computing takeoff weight, I find it implausible that it could have been information to be used upon arrival at Seoul...
...But that does not take away from the story's value as an insider's view of China's population program...
...rnest Volkman Danbury, Connecticut James Oberg replies: To Captain Toner: I never meant to say that ICAO got the 246° theory from the flight recorder, and in fact that theory was fully described in the December 1983 preliminary ICAO report on the disaster...
...The fuel is basically kerosene, with a few additives...
...That was enough for Ms...
...You are irrational about the Clintons, kind of demonizing them...
...The navigation theories reported in my article reflect the conclusions of ICAO's experts, although they certainly are in accord with judgments I made years ago based on my own assessment of the evidence surrounding this tragedy...
...Oberg says that a "Project Censored" review by a California academic in 1984 cited me, "described as the editor of Defense Science magazine, who revealed that Korean Airlines planes regularly fly over Soviet territory on missions for the CIA...
...He is a reporter, for KWTX television in Waco...
...If I was as inept as he claims, why did Mr...
...But I realized that she did not understand them and needed thorough editing, since she thinks in clichés...
...The doctors were only following orders...
...This is, simply: Why was the plane invading Soviet airspace over Sakhalin Island...
...The article of mine that Oberg cites was a review of two books, by Dallin and Clubb, both of whom are included on Oberg's list of "Idiots...
...Nobody, including McNeil, was really happy with this theory, however...
...The silence has been glaring among "women's" activists, especially considering that female babies are much more likely to be aborted...
...Morton Perry Grand Junction, Colorado...
...I was not a staffer at Penthouse...
...The flight flew directly over the top-secret area, ignored all warnings, was hit by a shell, but nonetheless continued to fly over the area for another 300 miles before landing...
...I do not recall having previously seen such a boorishly ill-mannered piece—in addition to this list there are at least four references to "conspiracy nuts" or "spy-flight nuts...
...At least where these pleaders were concerned, my sympathy soon gave way to irritation...
...I was there...
...As for Mr...
...CBS, of course, covered the convention, and as part of CBS's effort a medical station was set up for the care of the reporters and technicians who worked there...
...First, what is the issue...
...Stout defenders of the honor of all captains everywhere have a hard time explaining the very rare but still occasional incompetence of a few pilots in a very few instances...
...Gorbachev's regime fell, and since March 1992 I have published close to 200 articles in fourteen "major Russian democratic periodicals...
...scolded the Chinese for human-rights abuses but uttered not a peep about its one-child policy...
...This even predates the contribution of Mr...
...Young's brazen innuendos...
...Even this probability by itself is enough to make anyone doubt the "accident" version...
...He sure did not sound at all worried on the CVR...
...I, too, had only one child...
...Both of them attempted to estimate relevant probabilities...
...You see...
...From some data cited in my review, NASA found that over a period of five years and about two million flights, U.S...
...Not only am I pro-Hitler, but I am also pro-Moslem, pro-Arab, and anti-Judeo-Christian...
...But to Ms...
...Harwell's sources were wrong, and I failed to uncover the error...
...It assumes that the crew was totally incompetent...
...Anything over five miles left or right of track is cause for immediate action...
...How does Oberg know that...
...Roberts is right: R.W...
...From the summary Oberg provides, that conclusion may or may not be true (apparently, a degree in aeronautical science would be helpful...
...Perhaps she has more compelling loyalties...
...I was then asked if I would comment on reports that KAL routinely used its planes for espionage purposes...
...Johnson makes reference to a notation written by the pilot of KAL 007...
...First of all, at the time of the KAL incident, I was a contributing editor of Military Science and Technology magazine (later renamed Defense Science), as well as several other magazines, and listed on their mastheads as such...
...Deadheading crew members are usually referred to as "non-revs," (non-revenue producing...
...Don't forget, these guys were in almost constant touch with KE 015, which they believed to be only a few minutes behind them...
...It's almost touching...
...I know the story...
...This remarkable chain of crew mistakes is supposed to have occurred on a flight path that all crews knew took them perilously close to Soviet airspace that was over some of the most top-secret Soviet installations...
...The Moderate Spirit This aging moderate is terribly disappointed in your magazine...
...Apparently, it was this erroneous newspaper clip that led the California professor to proclaim the presumed revelation as among the "most censored" stories of 1984...
...Dickerman Williams Hamden, Connecticut Stuart Reid replies: Uh-oh...
...McNeil...
...Instead, I will call attention to the most remarkable aspect of Oberg's article and the one that is overwhelmingly the most important...
...Nor is he sufficiently attentive to important details such as giving correctly the title of the journal in which my review appeared, International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence (Spring 1986), so that an interested reader might be able to read the review if she or he so desired...
...I was a contributing editor, as a glance at that magazine's masthead will attest...
...We are told, for example, that Soviet officials privately "shuddered" when they read their experts' reports...
...candidate and that if he were not given the second slot, he would fight Jack all over the South...
...third, "the actual latitude and longitude, as displayed, would have been incorrect" and the crew did not, as they are supposed to, check coordinates against the flight plan...
...About 3:00 a.m...
...The Navrozov Files As late as 1991, Pravda called me the "most extremist American journalist" because I argued that the "strategic superplague" was being developed in Gorbachev's Russia, and the West was endangered as never before...
...One network, CBS, had the story and chose not to air it...
...Yet he vigorously defends and repeats his old conclusions, even though they are long overtaken by new findings...
...In this case, 1,200 feet above sea level...
...candidate...
...He overlooked them completely...
...Johnson makes much of the fact that the "sinister" notation was entered, scratched out, and then entered further down on the weight manifest...
...Insp...
...The comment on spraying aviation gas is from an interview with a Japanese fishing boat captain who witnessed the crash...
...It is not a figment of my imagination that the Japanese seaman recalled gasoline mist descending over his boat after he had heard the plane pass overhead, or that his American interviewer (a Navy captain in San Diego, with whom I have talked at length) recalls that the ship's logbook still smelled of jet fuel even several weeks later...
...Navrozov, after the newspaper folded, ask me several times to translate his longer essays for other publications and recommend me to others as a translator...
...Note Ms...
...Miller, alas, seems to cling vigorously to a mythology of Soviet-sponsored deceptions about KAL-007 (in 1983) and KAL-902 (in 1978) long after the Soviet empire has itself •collapsed...
...I know the English can perform many great feats, but reviving the dead—kings included—is not one of them...
...According to the South China Morning Post, "one report says 113 boys are being born for every 100 girls...
...I should add that I never regarded the unwitting media tipster as morally culpable for the ensuing gun battle...
...These two sentences are only distantly related to fact...
...Daniel Wattenberg Washington, D.C...
...However, a rational argument based on the weight of the evidence is needed...
...But Oberg dismisses it, pronouncing the news story a "highly distorted"account written by a correspondent captivated by "spy plane theories...
...By George...
...The "deadhead" interpretation was given me independently by two different 747 captains, who remarked that 200 lbs...
...Besides, I, too, had been compelled to have an abortion...
...Ironically, in Russia, a public KGB informer's vigilance is now extinct or at least dormant...
...The INS is checked at regular intervals...
...Charles Roberts Merrimack, New Hampshire A friend informed me that I was cited in an article in your October issue...
...It must be checked for ground speed every time a waypoint is crossed in order to give an accurate ETA for the following way-point...
...Bobby was dispatched to LBJ's suite to advise him of the choice and ask for his support...
...In truth, Chi An's campaign against the one-child policy did not begin until she became pregnant while with her husband in the U.S., and it occupies only a small part of the book...
...Louis, Missouri Clarification In my article "Gunning for Koresh" (TAS, August 1993), I reported that according to McLennan County Sheriff Jack Harwell "local television cameraman John McLemore" had, on the morning of February 28, 1993, "inadvertently tipped off" Branch Davidian David Jones about the impending ATF raid on the Mount Carmel Center...
...That is, those less vigilant may be mistaken here, but she detects my unmistakably sympathetic note toward Islamic fundamentalism...
...Alas, another journal has gone down into the lower depths...
...Teddy, and their inner circle of advisers met to pick Jack's running mate...
...The notation reads "1200 D/H...
...That is why rational persons accept an alternative explanation: the plane was over Sakhalin Island because it was intended to be...
...It would be inconceivable that someone in the crew did not check the cross track numbers, which gives the distance in miles from the planned track...
...This is simply incredible...
...She used to translate my articles into Russian because I had no time to do it...
...McNeil, whom I subsequently worked with, submitted this theory as the only possible way the plane could have gotten to where it supposedly was...
...The rest of his article has nothing to do with the issue...
...Is this another "accident...
...they turn you from the path...
...In her latest tour of Asia, for example, Rep...
...I have noticed several times in TAS the use of "Boy" when referring to our current president and I have to admit that initially I was offended by that characterization...
...In any event, Mr...
...They reported and speculated on Richard Nixon's purportedly secret night flight to confer with Nelson Rockefeller in New York...
...Johnson's turgid speculations seem even more ridiculous...
...but so was Einstein's theory of relativity, which hardly contains anything to offend the sensibilities of provincial Lutherans...
...To be fair to Ms...
...This is where I heard about the event...
...Youths oppress my people, women rule over them...
...Of late, a pejorative note has resonated in your articles...
...Shortly after the shootdown, I was interviewed by a radio station and was asked, as the author of two books and many articles on intelligence matters, my reaction to Soviet charges that KAL 007 was engaged on an espionage mission...
...Bobby carried the message back to (continued on page 85) Ah Fang and other "pleaders" were the "toughest to deal with": Some went into the operating room still begging, making everyone uneasy and uncomfortable...
...In his review of A.N...
...I may, perhaps, stand accused of ingratitude...
...I'm sorry he objects to my argumentative tone—I only wish that he'd objected as vehemently to the way he was used by the spy-flight nuts...
...TWA Goodwill Ambassador Howell, New Jersey Upon reading James Oberg's article, I am somewhat confused on a particular point...
...Some of your articles sound like the rantings of the young cranks on the Dartmouth Review...
...That theory came from Inspector Joe McNeil of the FAA's New York Flight Standards Office, and was submitted to ICAO as a review by the Air Navigation Commission on November 17, 1984...
...Lyndon Johnson and Jack Kennedy had gone through a bitter nomination campaign that ended at the Sports Arena in Los Angeles with the nomination of Jack Kennedy...
...0 my people, your guides lead you astray...
...The ones I have seen often had a tangible anti-Western bent, and since Mr...
...Suppose the plane had escaped or suppose the plane had simply been forced to land on Sakhalin Island...
...Second, a true scholar is constantly reassessing his conclusions based on new evidence, but the most significant new evidence regarding the KAL-007 controversy is the June 1993 ICAO report on the black boxes, and Miller's letter makes it clear he has not even seen it, much less studied it carefully...
...Reid also states that the Church of England forbids divorce...
...It was not McLemore who unwittingly tipped off the Davidians on the morning of the raid...
...Well, Oberg explains, it got "spiked" in the Western press, apparently hinting at still another KGB master stroke...
...Young, an immigrant from Russia, taking advantage of the fact that few readers of The American Spectator read the Russian press, and so there is no limit to her distortions to suit her "vigilance...
...I replied that I had heard such reports, but had no idea if they were true...
...That is the only conclusionthat can be drawn if one is to accept the constant 260 magnetic heading theory...
...Nancy Pelosi (D-Cal...
...you tout an awful character like Pat Buchanan, totally disregarding his anti-Semitism...
...It should always be zero, or a very low number...
...Far from being a saint, Chi An comes across at times as cold-hearted and selfish...
...In reading the book of Isaiah this morning, however, I think I may have changed my mind...
...This has been called the worst navigational error of modern times...
...Isaiah 3:4, 8,12, 15) I don't know if Isaiah was in any way the inspiration for the title "Boy President," but it certainly seems to fit...
...Young it seems that I am a closet Hitlerite...
...Now I argue that the danger is a possible comeback of Stalinism, with a far more explicit Nazi and old-Russian variety of anti-Semitism, which has been a special target of my attacks...
...The fact that a B-747 never ditched at sea is totally irrelevant...
...He apparently imagines that if it is possible that it happened by chance then it has been proved that it did happen by chance and that this is the explanation...
...GI CORRESPONDENCE (continued from page 10) Jack and a panic meeting was called...
...An incident that occurred at the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles in 1960 may help explain the long-standing antipathy between Bobby and LBJ...
...Navrozov's essay had any anti-Semitic intent, but rather that his determination to defy conventional wisdom—an often admirable disposition—has led him to make highly dubious and, in the context of today's Russia, inflammatory statements...
...But I have found it, in its most virulent form, in Ms...
...Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas...
...Navrozov focuses his response: several people, none of them paranoid about anti-Semitism, drew my attention to it and expressed puzzlement that a liberal magazine such as Ogonyok would publish something that could so easily be read as anti-Jewish...
...candidate...
...Nor was it my wish to damage his career in the American press, which was over, as far as I know, long before my TAS article appeared...
...avid W. Miller Columbia University New York, New York As an admirer of Jim Oberg's work, I was prepared to be enlightened by his "KAL 007: The Real Story...
...pilots found themselves off course only about twenty-one times, a probability of nearly .00001...
...or the Soviets...
...Oberg adds another link to this chain of error by going on to say, "But Volkman's quotation itself first appeared in an unverified newspaper clip, and a quick check would have shown that Volkman was not ever the editor of Defense Science but simply a staffer at Penthouse...
...This is that he doesn't have the slightest trace of an understanding of what the issue is regarding the flight of KAL 007 on September 1, 1983, and he has even less understanding of what constitutes an argument or how a rational person is expected to weigh evidence...
...The CVR was obviously mounted in the cockpit, and the FDR was mounted in the rudder...
...policies and hence conjure up a "conspiracy theory" is ridiculous...
...declares the Lord, the Lord Almighty...
...Young to claim that my article "seems to suggest that Hitler's hatred for Jews was really the fault of Freud...
...Symington was told he could have any other position he desired in return for his silence, but that Lyndon Johnson was the V.P...
...It is thus misleading to attack me personally for the expert views I am only transmitting...
...Stuart Reid says the following: "The Royal family did not even pretend to be English until 1917, the year of Passchendaele, when, sensing that a gesture was called for, Edward VII changed the family name from Saxe-Coburg Gotha to Windsor...
...About 5:00 a.m...
...No one of these possible outcomes, nor any imaginable other outcome, has any bearing on the point at issue...
...At that altitude, if the approach could not be safely executed, the aircraft would then go around for another try at the approach or fly to an alternate airport where meteorologic conditions were better...
...I thank Charles Roberts for his contribution to piercing the KAL-007 controversy...
...To those less vigilant, such as my Jewish readers in Russia, Israel, and the United States, it does not seem that way...
...Subsequently, I discovered, a newspaper—without bothering to interview me—published a garbled version which had me flatly asserting that KAL planes routinely overflew the Soviet Union on espionage missions...
...dward J. Toner, Jr...
...Even though I disagree with virtually everything Bill and Hillary stand for, I still felt that he should be respected as our president...
...Bobby was sent to Sen...
...The U.N...
...But assuming Oberg's judgment to be true, why, then, didn't the media trumpet the ICAO report...
...The DFDR, however, did confirm the theory...
...A convergence of humane instincts and rotten luck, 1 believed, had made the tipster an innocent instrument of disaster...
...The name-change monarch was of course George V, a fact I learned at my father's knee...
...Linden, California KALorama As a retired airline captain...
...It would be easy to respond in kind to Oberg...
...I was only a minor functionary...
...The term "useful idiot" was chosen by the editors, not by me, but the phrase is a historically valid appellation for a class of Western intellectuals who accepted and promulgated Soviet propaganda in the bad old days of the Cold War...
...By his reasoning, no one ever wins the lottery...
...In the United States, no arrest follows, but the anti-Semitic smear may have far-reaching consequences...
...T he book's subtitle—"One Woman's Fight Against China's One-Child Policy"—is somewhat misleading, in that it makes Chi An out to be some kind of crusader...
...McLemore is not a cameraman...
...It has nothing whatsoever to do with the tragic fate of the plane, shot down...
...Since the family planned on eventually returning to China, Chi An and her husband agree to write to her former colleague at the population control office, certain that an exception would be made since they were no longer in China...
...Jerusalem staggers, Judah is falling...
...That the crew showed very poor judgment seems unavoidable, and at other times other crews have shown equally bad judgment, sad to say...
...Miller claims he would be "absolutely delighted" if someone could demonstrate that the flight was an accident, but when ICAO does exactly that, he refuses to acknowledge even the existence of that report...
...ames L. Drexler St...
...All of this was known to CBS, and to Charles Collingwood in particular...
...I would be absolutely delighted if someone can demonstrate that the KAL 007 flight was an accident...
...CBS had hired the son of then governor of Minnesota Orville Freeman, ostensibly as a page, but in reality as a messenger carrying information from his father to CBS reporters...
...I found the article by James Oberg on the KAL tragedy not quite "the real story" ("KAL 007: The Real Story," TAS, October 1993...
...Why couldn't they understand that we clinic workers were not personally responsible for our actions...
...There is much additional ancillary information...
...it was decided to pick Sen...
...Sad to relate, however, I encountered a piece marred by a distinctly ugly tone—and, if judged solely by his erroneous references to me, perhaps a not wholly accurate one, either...
...While it is true that the prophet wrote this 2,700 years ago about the nation of Israel, his words of prophecy for a people that had left the authority of God's word for more secular pursuits have a very familiar ring for us today: I will make their boys their officials...
...For example, what would Oberg have to say about the KAL flight (the same airline) of April 20, 1978 that "accidentally" flew over the other top-secret Soviet area, the Kola Peninsula...
...you are unable to witness to the fanaticism of the religious right...
...But the current administration and the human-rights establishment have been noticeably silent on the population program that even the New York Times called "draconian...
...Incidentally, Gov...
...As for the "Hitler and Freud" essay, on which Mr...
...Fat chance of that happening, since, according to my Concise Columbia Encyclopedia, King Edward VII was already dead some seven years (18411910...
...Chi An eventually applied for, and received, asylum from the Reagan administration, with Steven Mosher's help...
...First, "the INS never took command of the autopilot" because either the crew forgot or they manually engaged the INS when it was too far off course...
...RFK v. LBJ Kenneth S. Lynn's assessment of Bobby Kennedy's less than charming personality agrees with my perception of Jack's alter-ego ("Bobby Kennedy's Crying Game," TAS, October 1993...
...Each of these books suggested ways in which the flight could have happened by chance, involving equipment malfunction and/or crew incompetence...
...This flight had been heading northwest for five hours when it suddenly turned southeast into the Soviet Union...
...While McLemore was not cursed with rotten luck on the morning of February 28, he did display extraordinary humaneness—and bravery—in removing wounded ATF agents from the scene of battle in his truck...
...And if it wasn't the deadheads, where on the manifest do they appear...
...Navrozov had once made a name for himself as a hypervigilant defender of Western democracy against the Soviet threat I thought this would make an interesting item...
...No less brazenly Ms...
...Second children are absolutely banned," she was told...
...What do you mean by crushing my people and grinding the faces of the poor...
...A public KGB informer's article, distorting its victim's statements to smear him politically, was followed by arrest...
...Is it really innocuous to suggest that Hitler's hatred of Jews was a result of filial piety offended by Freud's desecration of the mother-son bond (as though anti-Semitism had not existed before Freud...
...Each of the books reasoned essentially qualitatively to conclude that the flight could not have happened accidentally...
...Second, what is Oberg's conception of an answer to this key question...
...I replied that at best, a circumstantial case could be made, but it was a pretty thin one, and that we probably never would know for certain...
...Young insinuates: "Navrozov analyzes the Islamic world's fight for 'purity' against the `filth' spread by the 'formerly Christian' West on an unmistakably sympathetic note...
...The description of "aviation gas spraying wildly" is a figment of the author's imagination...
...My apologies to Edward VII and to the readers of TAS for this momentary lapse of concentration...
...Thus, in one of my articles on Hitler (published also in the predominantly Jewish émigré periodicals) I claim, on the basis of my study of votes in Germany in 1932, that Hitler received most of his votes from small-town Lutherans, scared as they were by what they perceived as the "filth" of the big cities, such as Freud's tenet that a boy of two seeks to possess his mother sexually...
...Aside from the errors relating to me personally, I was also bothered by some astonishing assertions in the article...
...Finally, Mr...
...Young's "seems" in her sentence above...
...For a while it represented a clever attack on the silly antics of some liberals...
...But I fear his memory fails him...
...What is the chain of accidental circumstances cited by Oberg...
...Investigating, I found that I was, indeed, cited, as one of ten persons listed as "Useful Idiots: An Honor Roll" in an article by James Oberg...
...Then we're told that falsehoods "invented by KGB disinformation specialists" fooled the Western media...
...While abroad, Chi An becomes pregnant...
...Your mindset is so convoluted that you cannot recognize Buchanan for the spiritual shanty Irishman that he is...
...The location of the data recorders was told to me by a Boeing spokesman...
...Oberg provides no evidence for this ugly assertion...
...When asked directly, he's happy to admit that he was merely repeating a rumor he had heard...
...Wilson's The Rise and Fall of the House of Windsor, Mr...
...Stuart Symington of Missouri as V.P...
...I was, at the time, medical director for CBS and in charge of the station...
...It is true, of course, that psychoanalysis was branded a "Jewish science" by the Nazis...
...did not get the theory of the constant magnetic heading of 246° from the USSR's recovered flight recorder...
...I did not mean to imply that Mr...
...Today she charges me with political crimes because such charges are clichés and because any deviation from clichés does seem to her a political crime...
...Within this scope I cannot cite all ofMs...
...This is an ugly assertion unsupported by any evidence, although Oberg concedes that the New York Times carried an article on the ICAO report...
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