ex-inmates, 38
Conquest, Robert: book by, 117
Corn growing: Khrushchev’s plan, 37-38
Dark Forces: defined, 43
Davis, Angela, 66-67
Dobrynin, Anatoly, 139
Donbas (region), USSR: Belenko’s childhood in, 23-25
DOSAAF (Voluntary Society for Assistance to the Army, Air Forces and Navy), 44
classes, 47-51
F-14 (aircraft), 73-74
F-15 (aircraft), 74
simulation, 183
Falls Church, Va.: apartment, 155
bar, 158-159
Fascell, Dante, 135
Ford, Gerald:
appeal to, by Belenko’s wife, 137
asylum granted to Belenko, 128-129, 130, 133
meeting with Gromyko, 139-140
Galich, Aleksandr, 88
Golodnikov, Dmitri Vasilyevich, 89-92
Gromyko, Andrei, 134, 139, 140
Grozny, USSR, 69-71
Hakodate, Japan: Belenko’s
landing site, 109-113, 129
Helsinki Accords, 135,137
Hokkaido (island), Japan:
Belenko’s arrival:
airspace, 18-21
landing site (Hakodate), 109-113, 130
Hyakuri Ah- Base, Japan, 172
Ivanovna, Serafima, 29-30, 33,64
Japan:
airspace, Belenko in, 18-21
Belenko’s stay in, 109-122
government response to Russians, 131-132, 139
harassment by Russians, 129-130,131,164
Kageoka, Masao, 130
Keegan, George J., Jr., 176
quoted, 181-182,186
Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeyevich, 37,38,40, 59, 70, 117
Kissinger, Henry, 126,128
Kosaka, Zentaro, 139
Kremlin, Moscow, USSR, 41
Krotkov, Nikolai Ivanovich, 88,94
Krylov, Lev, 135,137,138
Kudirka, Simas, 127
Las Vegas, Nev., 209
Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich:
tomb, 41
Lermontov, Mikhail Yurevich, 32
Litvinov, Grigori Petrovich, 71
Los Angeles Times: editorial quoted, 132-133
Malenkov, Colonel, 92-93
Marxism-Leninism: teachings, 28, 219
MiG-17s (aircraft), 73
MiG-25s (aircraft):
accidents, 106
design, 14, 173, 177, 178, 179, 180
explosive charges, 14-15, 172
fuel for, 98, 107
history, 171, 177-178
radar, 174,178,180
radio, frequency of, 19, 108
range, 173
Russian claims for, 77, 171
secrecy surrounding, 14, 169, 179
speed and altitude, 14, 169,173,174
support personnel, 96
U.S. perceptions of, 14—15, 169-170, 175, 176, 176-177, 181
Miyazawa, Kiichi, 132
Moscow, USSR, 41
Muslims: Chechens, 70
My Lai massacre: Vietnam, 69
National Operations and Intelligence Watch Officers Network (NOIWON):
United States, 126, 127
Navy, U.S.: aircraft carrier, 161-164
Nessen, Ron, 130
New Communist Man, 56-57, 220
Belenko’s attitude toward, 32,43
NOIWON (NationalOperations and Intelligence Watch Officers Network): United States, 126,127
Omsk, USSR, 44
Belenko’s jobs in, 44-47, 53-56,58-59
Belenko’s return to, 64-65
medical school: Belenko’s application to, 51
Osnos, Peter, 124
Pankovsky, Yevgenny Petrovich, 9
Parachute jumping, 47-48
Petrovna, Ludmilla, 77, 80, 97,104
dissatisfaction, sources of, 85-86,95
press-conference appearance, 135-137
Phantom fighters:
American, 14,73
Japanese, 18,19
Polyansky, Dmitri, 130
Powers, Francis Gary, 179
Ruble, value of, 55n
