MAJOR GENERAL GEORGE KEEGAN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000303140004-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 28, 2010
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: September 2, 1983
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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RADIO TV REPORTS, I N
FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS STAFF
PROGRAM The Larry King Show sTAT10N WTOP Radio
MBS Network
DATE September 2, 1983 12:05 A.M. CITY Washington, D.C.
SUBJECT Major General George Keegan
LARRY KING: We are going to devote the early portion of
the program tonight to a discussion of the flight of the almost
macabre-named 007, the Korean Air Line flight from New York to
Seoul with a stopover for refueling in Anchorage.
Our guest, first, will be Major General George Keegan,
United States Air Force (Retired). Major Keegan is the former
head of Air Force Intelligence.
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KING: I thank you, Major General Keegan, for, on rather
short notice, coming over.
Larry.
MAJOR GENERAL GEORGE KEEGAN: I'm delighted to be here,
KING: I think the easiest thing from the top is, what
the hell happened?
GENERAL KEEGAN: Well, what happened is very much
characteristic of what goes on in and over the Soviet Union.
Obviously, it is a tragic, unconscionable incident. I think
others will occur in the future because the courses of action
open to a President who is sort of a captive of the forces and
the pressures that he is captive of makes it very difficult for
this President, or any President, to take forceful, vigorous,
direct, consistent action that would be held to over a long
period of time. So, therefore, I think we're going to roll with
the punches, as we have in most previous cases.
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