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Title: In hindsight, such theories turn out to be bogus
Review: When the disaster occurred thirty years ago, at the height of the Cold War, people reacted pretty much true to their existing political biases. Placing the blame for the tragic deaths followed ideological lines. Brun's book was a 'classic' argument-from-conclusion of this type, and it was bad scholarship in service to perpetuators of a bad act, the Soviet government. I debated Brun in Seattle in 1992 and fgound his arguments silly, superficial, and insincere -- and his alleged 'Russian transcripts' fictitious. Analysis, and new data, over following years showed the airliner's course deviation was accidental and the Soviet attempts to identify it incompetent, leading to an inexcusable decision to apply deadly force AFTER the flight had departed Soviet airspace, while it was over international waters.A lot of the controversies and investigations are summarized at my site[...]
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