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'K, but the important factor on the KAL takedown was that the USSR ostensibly shot down a civilian airliner for violating Soviet Airspace with electronic surveillance equipment on board. The US screamed up and down that it was a civilian airliner with no intelligence mission whatsoever and that's the narrative that persisted. Fact of the matter is, the preponderance of evidence supports a CIA payload at a bare minimum. After all, it had happened before. So sure - maybe a lone geek feels culpable for an information blackout that cost him his job. But it's kind of a "fat finger theory" when, in fact, lots of clever people knew exactly what they were doing.