Killing Congressmen Pettis, Litton, and McDonald - 1975, 1976, and 1983
After killing four Members of Congress in a seven-month period, the KGB waited twenty-one months for their next “political murder.”
Congressman Jerry Pettis met his fate on February 14, 1975, when the private plane he was piloting crashed.
The National Transportation Safety Board said the 58-year-old Pettis was “a veteran pilot with 18,250 hours of flying time, including 700 in the type of small plane he was flying at the time of the crash.”
The NTSB “listed the probable cause of the crash as Pettis’s continued flight into adverse weather conditions . . . . Pettis had been adequately briefed on the weather before his flight.”
CIA officers would have no problem feeding inaccurate weather information to Congressman Pettis when he was “briefed on the weather before his flight,” which would explain his “continued flight into adverse weather conditions.”
On August 3, 1976, eighteen months after Pettis’s death, KGB officers inside the CIA killed Missouri Congressman Jerry L. Litton, “who was winning the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate.”
He and his entire family died when their plane “plummeted into a field shortly after taking off” while they were “on their way to Kansas City for a victory celebration.”
The NTSB “said its investigation showed a broken crankshaft in the left engine caused the engine to fail on take-off,” but the plane was clearly taking off and landing with functioning crankshaft prior to the Congressman’s flight.
The official NTSB report states that “shortly after” Congressman Litton’s plane “took off,” the crankshaft in the left engine “broke.” A “pre-existing fatigue crack” was the alleged cause of the break. But the pre-existing fatigue crack did not prevent the crankshaft from functioning properly prior to Congressman Litton and his family boarding the plane.
There is no reason to think the KGB did not use their prescribed method of “
sabotage” to kill Congressman Litton and his family. It was no coincidence that they got onto
a plane with a “broken crankshaft” that would
“cause the engine to fail on take-off.”After the KGB killed Congressmen Boggs, Begich, Collins, Mills, Pettis, and Litton in less than four years, Intelligence Oversight Committees were in place in both the House and the Senate, which resulted in a thirteen-year lull in plane crashes that killed Members of Congress.
The next plane to go down with a Member of Congress on board did not crash. A Soviet fighter jet shot it down after it flew into Soviet airspace in a KGB-orchestrated intelligence operation in which the plane would supposedly probe the Soviet’s radar defense system.
Congressman Lawrence McDonald, a CIA officer in Congress, was a passenger on Korean Air Lines Flight 007 when the pilot took it hundreds of miles off course and flew near a Soviet island near Siberia on September 1, 1983. The Soviet island was “part of the Soviet Far Eastern military network, with air bases, radar stations, and other tracking installations.”
A Soviet fighter jet intercepted Flight “Double-O-Seven” and destroyed it with a missile.
Afterwards, Korean Air Lines officials in New York “contended that the airliner could not have strayed off course into Soviet airspace because of what they called ‘sophisticated’ navigational equipment on board.
“‘Since we skirt this area here very closely,’ said Ralph Strafaci, the district sales manager, ‘the equipment we have on board is very important and very technical. It’s a very difficult thing for that aircraft to stray.’” (More on the CIA’s Flight “Double-O-Seven” intelligence operation is addressed in another chapter.)
Congressman McDonald was the last Member of Congress to die at the hands of the KGB before they were exposed in 1984.
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