Flight of the Dove: KAL 007-On the Wings of Conspiracy

A Tale of Yale, The Nation, and Cold War Politics

At the height of the Cold War in the early 1980s, the Russians shot down a commercial airliner, Korean Air Lines Flight 007, that strayed into their airspace. The shootdown became the era's most incendiary incident, drawing the superpowers to the brink of nuclear war.

Flight of the Dove: KAL 007-On the Wings of Conspiracy is the behind the headlines account of David Pearson's investigation into the KAL tragedy, a roller coaster of hope and dis...