Top Secret 1992 Report on the 1983 Soviet Shootdown of Korean Airline KAL-007

Last week we were fortunate enough to be given access to two Top Secret documents (without the “declassified” stamp, but that’s neither here nor there) regarding the 1 September 1983 Soviet shootdown of a civilian Korean airliner that, according to official accounts, inadvertently drifted into Soviet airspace during its New York City – Anchorage -ContinueContinue reading “Top Secret 1992 Report on the 1983 Soviet Shootdown of Korean Airline KAL-007”

Letter from Wife of People’s Artist of Ukraine Oleksandr Kurbas to Soviet Authorities in Hopes of Learning his Fate, ca. 1954

The following is a copy of an undated letter to the Prosecutor General of the USSR Rudenko from People’s Artist of the Ukrainian SSR and UZ SSR Valentina Chistyakova with a request to provide information about her husband Oleksandr Kurbas, who was sentenced in 1934 to 5 years of imprisonment, information about his whereabouts, andContinueContinue reading “Letter from Wife of People’s Artist of Ukraine Oleksandr Kurbas to Soviet Authorities in Hopes of Learning his Fate, ca. 1954”