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Five Diplomatic Moves Preceded Plane Release
Five diplomatic moves preceded the release of an American plane held on a Soviet island for more than 48 hours after it was forced to land by MiG fighters. Top level and lower level officials on both sides coordinated steps from Rusk’s call to the Soviet ambassador through Moscow to secure release. The aircraft and 231 aboard departed Iturup Island for Japan after formal apologies and investigations confirmed the navigational lapse.
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Washington
Vietnam
Pentagon
State Department
Dean Rusk
Defense
Clark Difford
Walt W. Rostow
Johnson
DCS
Military Airlift Command
Iturup Island
Pacific Knvites
Rusk
Anatole Dubrynin
Dobrynin
United States
U.S
Moscow
Llewelyn ‘Thompson
Kremlin
Kosygin
Thompson
Dobryn
Vasiliy Kuznetsov
Federal Aviation Agency
Malcolm ‘Toon
Soviet Union
Yuri N. Tcherniakov
Georgi Kornienko
Soviet Foreign Ministry
Pacific Arc
Japan