PRC RELEASES SOVIET HELICOPTER CREW HELD SINCE MARCH 1974

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-112-8-47-7
• Release Decision: RIFLIM
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: October 1, 2010
• Sequence Number: 47
• Publication Date: December 27, 1975
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

TIME THE CHINESE PUBLIC SECURITY ORGANS HELD THE CREW
MEMBERS AND THE HELICOPTER FOR INVESTIGATION; THIS WAS
NECESSARY. NOW THINGS ARE CLEAR AFTER INVESTIGATION
BY THE CHINESE PUBLIC SECURITY ORGANS, AND THEY CONSI.:ER
CREOIdLE TIE SOVIET CREW MEMBERS' STATEMENT ABOUT THE
UNINTENTIONAL FLIGHT INTO CHINA, AND HAVE DECIDED TO
.RELEASE THE THREE CREW MEMBERS, CAPTAIN A. S. KUIRBATOV,
LIEUTENANT A.F. USKOV AND JUNIOR LIEUTENANT V.G. BUCHELNIXOV
AND TO RETURN TO THE SOVIET SIDE THE HELICOPTER WITH ALL
THE EQUIPMENT AND DOCUMENTS ABOARD.
ON THE SAME DAY, REPRESENTATIVE OF THE FOREIGN MINISTRY YU
HUNG-LIANA, DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF THE DEPARTMENT OF SOVIET UNION AND
EAST EURJPEAN AFFAIRS, 3AVE A DINNER TJ CAPTAIN KURBATOV AND THE
OTHER 140 CREW ,MEMBERS BEFORE THEIR DEPARTURE FOR HOME.
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PRC'RELEASES SOVIET HELICOPTER.CREW HELD SINCE MARCH 197
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(TEXT) PEKIN3, DECEMBER 27, 1975 (HSINHUA) -- ON DECEMBER 27,
CHINESE VICE-FOREIGN MINISTER YU CHAN INFORMED SOVIET
AMBASSADOR TO CHINA V.S. TOLSTIKOV OF THE FOLLOWING:
ON MARCH 14, 1974, A SOVIET MI-4 ARMED RECONNAISSANCE
HELICOPTER ENTERED THE SINKIANG UIGHUR AUTONOMOUS
REGION, CHINA, TO A DEPTH OF OVER 70 KILOMETRES AND FLEW
MORE THAN 400 KILOMETRES OVER CHINA'S TERRITORY. AT THAT
No Objection to Declassification in Full 2010/10/01 : LOC-HAK-112-8-47-7