Chapter 533 What is the truth of the matter?
After receiving the Korean escort from Iraq, the KGB began an urgent interrogation. Without much effort, he tortured everything Chen Bingyong knew.
Until now, the United States does not know that the Soviet Union has grasped part of the truth...
For example, what was shot down was not the real Korean Air flight 1,490, but an electronic reconnaissance aircraft with the same appearance from the United States. They needed to detect the deployment of Sakhalin Island, and the aircraft was mainly American intelligence personnel.
For some time, the Soviet Union has been slandered by the United States, saying that the Soviet Union shot down an innocent passenger plane in South Korea. Now, enough evidence has been found, which is all the tricks of the United States!
Therefore, after interrogating Chen Bingyong, the Soviet Union finally stopped silent and announced the story of the Soviet investigation, as well as the two dead and one survivor, all appeared on TV.
After the Soviet Union made a high-profile announcement, the whole world was shocked.
No one expected that the truth of the matter was like this. The most open and free country in the United States would deceive the whole world and do such a thing!
Suddenly, all public opinion began to raise questions to the United States, why did the United States do this!
The US government suddenly became very embarrassed, and even Congress was about to ask questions to the president. Now, the memorial service for those people on the flight had just been completed, but the result was that those people were missing and there was no trace of them on the passenger plane shot down by the Soviet Union!
Just before that, the International Civil Aviation Organization announced the final investigation report on the reasons why the South Korean passenger plane left the route at a press conference held in Montreal, Canada, and determined that the passenger plane did not use the inertial navigation system to fly, but used the compass orientation to fly at 245 degrees. As a result, this tragedy occurred.
But then, someone raised questions. First of all, the navigation system of the Boeing 747 is quite advanced and it is impossible to deviate from the route. Moreover, the captain served in the Korean Air Force for a long time and often flew this route after joining Korean Air. He can be said to be experienced and familiar with the road. Most importantly, the Air Traffic Control Bureau of Tokyo Haneda Airport once monitored the call and recorded the sound when the incident occurred, but he has been unwilling to hand over the tape.
At that time, this was just a question, but now, this question, with the news released by the Soviet Union, suddenly became so real. This was clearly a conspiracy of the US government! Some people even found out the scandal before the United States and speculated that the US government's motivation to do so. It diverted the attention of the domestic people!
The US government's actions are so hurtful to the hearts of Americans. They can't believe that their government is actually deceiving themselves like this!
The most serious trust crisis in the Reagan administration finally kicked off. Reagan found that he was so unlucky that he could even get stuck in his teeth when drinking cold water!
"Everyone, I want to know, wasn't that passenger plane shot down? We have already salvaged the victims? Why is the pilot still alive, and how could it fall into the hands of the Soviets?" President Reagan's face was gloomy. Looking at his think tanks, could they tell themselves, what happened?
"We were dispatched urgently at that time, and the bodies of many victims had been salvaged. However, in the vast sea, we could not find all the bodies of everyone. We still have five bodies that have not been found. Now it seems that they may have fallen into the hands of the Soviets as the currents float, or they may have been rescued by ships passing by nearby, especially the Korean captain who was still alive. It is very likely that they were rescued by other ships." said Casey, director of the CIA.
"Maybe, very likely." Reagan repeated these words and said, "What we need is not possibility, but certain! Now, those people have fallen into the hands of the Soviets, and the eyes of the whole world are looking at us. How can we explain to the people! Maybe our people will push us off the stage tomorrow! Thinking of the Democratic candidate who is preparing to compete with him for the next president, he will definitely make a big fuss about this matter!
"Actually, we have an easier way." At this time, Vice President Bush spoke.
An easier way? Reagan asked: "What method?"
"Now, for some reason, the Soviet Union got the remains of a living pilot and two victims who were carrying out a secret mission. However, this pilot was not a pilot of the flight at all. He was just a Korean tourist traveling to Moscow. The other two were also. They were in Moscow, and for some reason they were captured by the Soviet KGB. Under the torture of the KGB, the pilot was forced to admit that he was a civil aviation passenger plane pilot who flew the plane into Soviet airspace, and had also weaved so many lies to deceive public opinion. We strongly condemn the Soviet Union's behavior!" Bush said it seriously and very serious.
Reagan immediately understood that if this incident made the American people know the truth, then his life in the White House would end, and Bush proposed a very simple and practical method: never admit that those truths were made up by the Soviets! They tried to shirk responsibility and made up a fantasy excuse for shooting down civil aviation aircraft. It was actually a sneak attack planned by the United States and disguised as a civil aviation aircraft! How is this possible?
"Tomorrow, I will go to comfort the families of our Americans in those downed passenger planes," said President Reagan.
I originally planned to release the personnel on the passenger plane secretly as a new identity after the incident, but now it seems that they can only stay in that secret base first, and only after the storm of this matter has completely subsided, can they be put back.
"George, immediately prepares to post a press conference to express his strongest opposition to the Soviets' slander." Reagan said to the White House Office Director.
"yes."
"The navy is ready and then put pressure on the direction of Sakhalin to show our strong military power. Our country will definitely not allow the Soviets to slander this!"
"Yes," Weinberg replied happily. Send a reconnaissance plane and blatantly fly across the Soviet coast! It hasn't been done like this for a long time.
At Bush's suggestion, the US government finally began to fight back. They made a comprehensive explanation and counterattack on the slander of the Soviet Union. The Soviets fabricated evidence themselves and tried to falsely report the truth. This should be condemned by the international community!
The Soviet Union did not expect that the Americans would dare to say this. They had the exact evidence and were so stubborn that they just refused to admit it. They were so shameless!
The two most powerful military powers began to quarrel and spit on each other, and, in the northwest of the Pacific, the worst military confrontation since the Cold War began.
The American people also began to get lost in this question. What is the truth of the matter? Some of the doubts still exist, but most people are satisfied with the explanation given by the US government. In any case, they do not believe that their government can do such shocking things.
Just as the United States was fighting against the Soviet Union, and when the world was in chaos, no one noticed that in another corner of the world, in the back garden of the Americans, a fierce competition for interests was taking place in a small island country.
Grenada, located at the southernmost tip of the Windward Islands in the Eastern Caribbean Sea, is about 160 kilometers south from the coast of Venezuela. It was originally the residence of Indians. It was "discovered" by Columbus in 1498, belonged to France in 1650, occupied by Britain in 1762, and officially confirmed as British under the Treaty of Versailles in 1783, and since then it became a British colony. It was not until February 7, 1974 that it was declared a member of the Commonwealth and joined the United Nations in the same year.
Grenada was later ruled by a unified Labor government with Elic Gehry as prime minister and pursued a pro-Western and pro-American policy, which aroused the dissatisfaction of the opposition party's "New Gem Movement". The "New Gem Movement" was established in 1972 and was composed of Grenada's pro-Soviet Soviet Union and Cuba people. It advocated "restoring all democracy and freedom", holding "free and fair elections", implementing "economic revolutionization", establishing "a country where people participate in politics", and following the socialist path.
The two different political parties took different routes, and finally started a fight. On March 13, 1979, the party launched a coup, overthrew the Geri government, and established a new government with Morris Bishop as prime minister. After the establishment of the Bishop government, it pursued a "one-sided" policy toward the former Soviet Union and Cuba in diplomacy. It received a large amount of economic and military aid from the former Soviet Union and Cuba, and established the "People's Revolutionary Army" and militia.
This aroused the fear of the United States. They have always regarded the Caribbean as their back garden. Now, in this back garden, Cuba and Nicaragua have already firmly visited the Soviet Union. If Grenada is added, then the three countries form an "iron triangle" that will put the Caribbean under the threat of combat aircraft from the Soviet Union and Cuba. The smooth flow of US maritime transportation lines and local security will be seriously threatened. Since Grenada is in danger of becoming the "second Cuba", the United States has been constantly putting pressure on the Bishop administration to try to overthrow the pro-Soviet regime in Grenada.
Bishop did not have the same spirit as Castro. Under pressure from the United States, the Bishop administration began to take measures to ease tensions with the United States and other Western countries. Even in June this year, Bishop visited the United States in person and reached an "understanding" with the United States. Therefore, Bishop's actions aroused fierce opposition from the pro-Suku "hardliners" led by Deputy Prime Minister Colder and the government commander Austin. They were ready to launch a coup and oust Bishop!
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