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Extensions of Remarks 43 January 14, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 43 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS VIKTOR BELENKO AND THE Reader's Digest Senior Editor John Bar­ You can: still go back, a.nd nobocl1f wm ron has spent hundreds of hours with Belen­ know. If you go, tt's forevef"_, MEANING OF FREEDOM ko, and in this. penetrating account describes He let the plane gllde downward, hoping flrst the whys and hows of the Russian's the descent would be so gradual that the escape, then the startling effects of a free radar controllers would not notice at first. HON. ROBERT K. DORNAN society on a hitherto imprisoned soul. At 19,900 feet, Belenko suddenly Jammed the o• CALD'OBNIA As he had clone every day except Sunday stick forward and plunged the MiG into a IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES for four weeks, MiG pilot Viktor Ivanovich power dive toward the valley ahead, hurtling Belenko awoke early. · The flrst light was straight down to 100 feet. Here he would be Monda11. JanuaT1J 14. 1980 promising. He knew, almost certainly, th1s safe from the thickets of SAMs (surface-to­ e Mr. DORNAN. Mr. Speaker. I was would be the day. alr missiles) and anti-aircraft batteries. somewhat taken aback . earlier this Above the vast forests stretching along He thundered through the valley and in month when it was reported that_Presi- the coast of the Soviet Far East. the sky two minutes shot over the Sea of Japan, then .dent Carter had changed his assessments was cloudless. In all likelihood he would pushed an emergency button which broad­ fly as scheduled. Lieutenant Belenko figured cast a signal indicating his plane was on the of the goals and intentions of the Krem­ tt should all be over in the next six hours. verge of crashing. Seconds later he shut down lin leadership in the wake of their inva­ At age 29 we would be either dead or re· his radar and switched off his radio. He did sion of Afghanistan. Though I confess to born into a new world. not want to be distracted by what any pur­ being. somewhat· surprised at such a . The awareness that he was looking for the suers might be saying or doing. statement. I think that we all agree that last time at his pretty wife and three-year To avoid detection, Belenko flew so low such a change is certainly better late old son, both sleeping, evoked little emotion. that twice he had to swerve to. miss hitting than never. The marriage had disintegrated. He was fishing boats. But at sea level the MIG was Much of our understanding of the tempted to pick up his son. Nol He might cry. devouring fuel gluttonously. Unless he dras­ You wouldn't ord1narlly pick him up at thla tically reduced fuel consumption by climbing Soviet political mentality is drawn from hour. Don't do one thing you wouldn't to at least 20,000 feet, he never would make theoretical texts of Marxism-Leninism: ordinarily do. land. Yet he had not flown far enough to go The nature and goals of this ideological Belenko · dressed quickly, then Joggec:l to up safely to that height: he stlll would be commitment are not difficult to fatho~. the bus stop about a mile away. An hour Within reach of Soviet SAMs. The Soviets claim that the world is later, after a briefing at the · air base, he Better possible death' than certain death, undergoing an inexorable historical drew his flight helmet, oxygen mask and Belenko reasoned, pulling up into the clouds. development that will insure the triumph gloves. "Lieutenant, you forgot your life He had flown on a course of 110 degrees, of socialism and, eventually. commu­ preserver," a sergeant called. dead-reckoning his way toward Hokkaido, the nism. This is not the subjective· in­ Don't take it I Fool them I northernmost of the main Japanese islands, "'Thanks, but I won't be over water today.'• the one closest to h~ base. At· approximately terpretation of the gentleman from · The aircraft--twenty MlG:-25s-were 1 :20 p.m. he figured he was nearing Japanese California. or specialists on the Inter• poised wing to wing on the runway. Weighing 9.irspace and tnterceptlon by Phantom fight­ national Relations Committee. but an 2_2 tons, with twin tall fins, short, swept-back ers of the Japanese interceptors to 14!ad him understanding that comes from a read­ Wings, two enormous englnes · and a long 'to a safe landing field. But they would have ' ing of explicit Soviet texts.- rocket-llke nose, the Mi0-25 was one of the to find him on their own-his radio fre­ There is another aspect of our under­ most feared and closely guarded weapons ln quency band was so narrow he could com­ standing of Soviet society that comes the Soviet arsenal. Even among themselves municate only with other MIGs. from persQDal experiences and revela­ the Russians referred to it simply as I>roduct Both Phantoms and MiGs were all around · tions, from men and women who have . No. 84. The comparatively few young men at that moment, desperately searching for escaped, in. the language of Solzhenitsyn. chosen to fly the aircraft were an ellte in the Belenko in the swirling gray clouds. His plane Soviet armed forces. bad first appee.red on Japanese radar screens : from the "dragon's belly." Most of these On September 6, 1976, swarms of men were at 1: 11 p.m.• when-he rose to 20,000 feet. Nine are Jewish or Christian di~idents. But I making the planes ready a.t the Sakha.rovka minutes later, with the blip moving toward was especially taken by the defection of air base, near Chuguyevka, 120 miles north­ the center of the screens, the commander of Viktor Belenko. a Soviet fighter pilot. I east of Vladivostok. Trucks filled each plane the mlllta.ry base at Chlt.ose had ordered am intimately famUiar with fighter with 14 tons of Jet fuel and ha.If a ton of Phantoms to take off -for interception. At pilots; it was my own mllit.ary experi­ coolant alcohol, and pumped oxygen into 1:22, Belenko breach~d Japanese airspace, ence. The defection of a Soviet fighter llfe-support systems. Lieutenant Belenko and the Phantoms closed on him. However, at pilot has a special meaning, not only in climbed a 14-foot ladder and settled into the 1 : 26, as Belenko started to drlft down _in . cushioned s~at. ',J'he vari9u~ dials and levers quest of clear sky, his MIG disappeared from terms of what intelligence of a military in the green . cockpit were easily. accessible. the radarscopes. Without any more guidance nature he must bring with him, but also Conspicuous among them was a red button trom the ground, the Phantoms flew about in terms of our political intelligence. labeled "'Danger." Pilots were instructed to ,futilely in the overcast. John Barron. of Reader's Digest, has pregs the button should they be forced down At 1,800 feet ·B.elenko found clear sky, but written an excellent account of the or have to eject from the aircraft outside the no Japanese interceptors. He began to take defection of Belenko,· detailing the rea­ Soviet U~on. Supposedly it activated a timed ,1sua1 bearings. Chltose, he calculated, lay to soning behind his decision. I ask my col­ mechanism that would destroy the most the northeast, toward the middle of the leagues to· take some time to reflect on secret components· o! the plane. island, behind a range ot mountains still Belenko's decision for freedom. Belenko released the braires at exactly shrouded in clou~. The guage indicated he The article follows: 12:50 p.m., and the· MIQ1 surged down the had aufflcient fuel for another 16 to 18 runway. While stlll perilously low, he shut mtnµtes of flight. Had his purposes been dlf- · MIG.PILoT off the afterburner to conserve fuel. Also to ferent, he might have considered probing for (~Y John Barron) conserve, he ascended more slowly thaµi usual a sa.fe passage downward until his fuel was Por .more than 60 years the Soviet Union to. 24,000 feet and took. five minutes instead gone, then bailing out. But to Belenko, pres­ has been attempting to mold the New com­ of the normal four to enter Trainini Zone ervation of the MIG was more important munist Man, a Cl'ea.tlo:n able and wllllng No. 2. Beginning the wide 360-degree turn than preFervation·of his own 11fe. He c'ecided to carry forward the banner of triumphant that .ground controllers ~ere expec.ting, he to stay below the clouds, fly eastward past Marxism-Leninism. Lt. Viktor Belenko ap· sa.w numerous other MI0-26s ln the area. He the southern end of -the mountain range, p~ared to be Just su~ a man-handsome, rapidly was approaching the point of no re· then turn north toward Chitose. dedicated, ideologically pure. a skllled air· turn. For upon. completion of the circle, he A red warning light :Oashed in the cockpit force pllot of the deadly MIG-26. Yet. on would have to proceed~lther with the pro­ at 1:42 p.m.• and an instant afterward a September 6, 1976, Viktor Belenko defected grammed training flight or with his own panel lit up, muminating the wc;>rds "Yqu to the Wes~amattcally flying his plane secret plan. have six minutes. of fuel left." Belenko to freedom, bringing with him not only the turned . off the warning lights.
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