TASS RELEASES STATEMENT ON AIRCRAFT INCIDENT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85M00363R000300620009-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 27, 2007
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: September 2, 1983
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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TRSS RELEASES STATEMENT ON AIRCRAFT INCIDENT
TAKE 1 -- TASS STATEMENT ON AIRCRAFT INCIDENT
10021707 MOSCOW TRSS IN ENGLISH 1658 GMT 2 SEP 83
?TASS STATEMENT" -- TASS HEADLINE)
(TEXT) MOSCOW SEPTEMBER 2 TASS -- AS IT HAS ALREADY BEEN
REPORTED) ON THE NIGHT FROM AUGUST 31 TO SEPTEMBER 1 THIS YEAR) AN
UNIDENTIFIED PLANE HAD RUDELY VIOLATED THE SOVIET STATE BORDER AND
INTRUDED DEEP INTO THE SOVIET UNION'S AIR SPACE. THE INTRUDER
PLANE HAD DEVIATED FROM THE EXISTING INTERNATIONAL ROUTE IN THE
DIRECTION OF THE SOVIET UNION'S TERRITORY BY UP TO 500 KILOMETRES
AND SPENT MORE THAN TWO HOURS OVER THE KAMCHATKA PENINSULA) THE AREA
OF THE SEA OF OKHOTSK AND THE ISLAND OF SRKHRLIN.
IN VIOLATION OF INTERNATIONAL REGULATIONS THE PLANE FLEW WITHOUT
NAVIGATION LIGHT Ss DID NOT REACT TO RADIO SIGNALS OF THE SOVIET
DISPATCHER SERVICES AND ITSELF MADE NO ATTEMPTS TO ESTABLISH SUCH
COMMUNICATION CONTACT.
IT WAS NATURAL THAT DURING THE TIME THE UNIDENTIFIED INTRUDER
PLANE WAS IN THE USSR AIR SPACE SOVIET ANTI-AIR DEFENCE AIRCRAFT
WERE ORDERED ALOFT WHICH REPEATEDLY TRIED TO ESTABLISH CONTACTS WITH
THE PLANE USING GENERALLY ACCEPTED SIGNALS AND TO TAKE IT TO THE
NEAREST AIRFIELD IN THE TERRITORY
OF THE SOVIET UNION. THE INTRUDER
PLANE) HOWEVER) IGNORED ALL THIS. OVER THE SAKHALIN ISLAND) A
SOVIET AIRCRAFT FIRED WARNING SHOTS WITH TRACER SHELLS ALONG THE
FLYING ROUTE OF THE" PLANE.
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OON nF ! ER THIS THE 'INTRUDER PLANE LEr ? s HE LIMI ? S' Or J~,'~ it! H: R.
SPACE AND CONTINUED ITS FLIGHT TOWARD THE SEA OF JAPAN. FOR ABOUT
TEN MINUTES I WAS WI THIN THE OBSERVATION ZONE OF RADIO LOCATION
NEANS) AFTER WHICH IT COULD BE OBSERVED NO MORE.
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{TEXT) ONE'S ATTENTION IS DRAWN TO THE FACT THAT ALREADY IN THE
FIRST REPORT ABOUT THIS REFERENCE WAS MADE TO THE U.S. CENTRAL
INTELLIGENCE AGENCY. FURTHER REPORTS EMANATING FROM THE UNITED
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