MiG25 report by Tass
NZPA Moscow The official Soviet Union news agency, Tass, alleges that Japan is planning to airlift the top-secret MiG25 fighter aircraft which recently landed in Japan to an American base for examination by American experts. Tass had warned Japan that handing the aircraft over to the Americans would be an unfriendly act against its own interests, and against the norms of international law.
The agency had earlier said that the pilot, Lieutenant Viktor Belenko, was forced to make an emergency landing in Japan after losing his bearings and realising that he did not have enough fuel to return to Soviet Union territory.
It also implied that Lt Belenko, now in the United States after being granted political asylum there, was kidnapped by the Japanese authorities. A Tass commentator, Victor Zatselin, says that the planned transfer of the world’s most sophisticated fighter, had been incited and supported by a third party — meaning the United States.
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Press, 17 September 1976, Page 5
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