"On September 1, 1983 Korean Air Lines Flight 007, a 747 with 269 passengers aboard, strayed into Soviet airspace over a secret missile installation on the Kamchatka peninsula. Soviet interceptors scrambled and the plane was shot down--killing all aboard. World reaction was explosive. The Soviets claimed that flight 007 was really a spy plane. But U.S. representatives gave a vivid presentation at the United Nations "proving" that the Russians knew...