Re: Intell

[<RonaldS842@aol.com>]

In a message dated 4/22/01 4:29:41 PM, Jhk789@aol.com writes:

<< Didn't North Korea shoot down one US spy plane, EC-135(?)?
When was that? How close did we fly at that time?
What was the reaction of the US at the shooting?
I am trying to remember what happened at that time.

John >>

   On April 15, 1969 a EC-121 was shot down in the Yellow Sea over the 
northwest coast of Korea where it joins China. 
   There was a crew of 30 on board and non survived. Two bodies were found 
and the fate of the other 28 is unknown.
   These planes were instructed to fly along the coastline just outside the 
territorial limits but quite often they were told to make feints toward the 
mainland at strategic points to initiate a response. These flights were 
tracked by enemy radar and the penitration prompted a general alert. When 
these feints penitrated territorial waters (or sometimes even the mainland) 
the planes, always unarmed, were destroyed. If they weren't, then we knew 
where they were vulnerable.
   These things were never picked up by the press.

Ron