RUSS WARN TURKEY: RETURN HIJACKERS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-01601R000700100001-6
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 3, 2000
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• Publication Date: October 21, 1970
• Content Type: NSPR

Approved For Release 20 I~WPo4. 6Y) RD
21 OCT 1970
xueturn i2acaers
[Chief of Moscow Bureau]
(Chicago Tribune
Press Service]
nation for the . sake of a
criminal pseudo-Lithuanian or-
ganization which' serves the
CIA?" Izvestia asked.
May Face Death
There is little doubt that at
least the father would face a
certain death sentence if ex-
tradited.
MOSCOW, Oct. 20-The So-
!-viet government tonight
'warned that Turkish-Soviet re-
lations may suffer if the father
j and son who hijacked a Soviet
airliner to Turkey last week are
not handed over.
Reports from Turkey said a
lower court had ruled against
extraditing the two, identified
a. s Lithuanians Fransizskas
Koreivo, 46, and his son,
Argedas, 15, cn'the ground that
their act was a political one in
search of asylum. Reports said
a final decision could take a
T h e r e is no extradition
agreement' between the Soviet
Union and Turkey, but Izvestia
cited a Turkish law which
allows extradition. It also cited
a recent 'resolution. of the
Interparliamentary union which
it said calls for extradition.
The hijacking represented the
first successful attempt by
Soviet citizens to hijack . in-
ternal flights to foreign- coun-
tries.
The refusal of Turkish au-
thorities to hand back the
hijackers would set a precedent
that Soviet authorities certainly
would fear.
Stringent new security meas-
ures were made at Soviet
airports. However, Soviet au-
thorities still refuse. to allow
foreign airline representatives
to search -passengers, arguing
In the hijacking last Thurs-
day 'a- stewardess, \Tadezhda,
Kurchenko, 19, was killed and
one crew member was seri-
ously wounded. The two-engine
plane and 46 passengers have
been returned to the Soviet
Union.
Propaganda Drive Begins
A' full-fledged propaganda
campaign has blossomed here
with papers carrying "demands
of indignant Soviet Citizens that
the criminals-murderers b e
tried in a Soviet court."
'The o f f i c Fa I government
newspaper Izvestia tonight im
plied that the United States and
its Central Intelligence Agency
had intervened to prevent their
extradition.
Izvestia cited as the basis for
the charge of CIA intervention
that no foreign official has the
right to conduct security checks
in Russia.
the arrival in Turkey of a
representative of 'a'Lithuanian
liberation organization and ad-
dresses in the U. S. found in the
;hijackers' luggage.
"But is it in Turkey's na-
tional interest to cast shadows
ion relations with a neighboring
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