MiG Pilot

Rubtsovsk, USSR:

Belenko’s childhood in, 27-44

Belenko’s return to, 64

crime, 39

industrialization, 28

pollution from, 34

Rumsfeld, Donald, 131

SR-71s (aircraft), 174, 177

Saint-Exupery, Antoine de, 32

Sakharovka Air Base,

USSR: Belenko’s preparation for departure, 12-17

Salsk, USSR, 78, 85, 87

SAMs (surface-to-air missiles), 17, 18, 154, 179

San Francisco, Calif., 209

Schlesinger, James R., 14

Scowcroft, Brent, 129,131

Seamans, Robert C., 14, 169

Shevsov, Yevgenny Ivanovich, 9-11, 96, 100,103,105

Shishaev, Aleksandr, 130-131

Shvartzov, Nikolai Igoryevich, 73

Siberia (region), USSR:

collective farm, 25-27

(See also Omsk; Rubtsovsk)

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr:

works, 117-118, 149

Soviet Air Defense Command:

benefits and perquisites, 75-76

meals, 9,12

enlisted men’s, 97

physical examinations, 12-13

provisions issued, 11

Stalin, Joseph, 25, 37, 70, 117

tomb, 41

Steiner, Steven, 125-126, 128

Sukhanov, Yuri Nikolayevich, 65

Tank manufacture, 53-54, 55

Tass (Soviet news agency):

quoted, 133-134

Tikhoretsk, USSR, 72

Tokyo, Japan: Belenko’s

stay in, 114-122

True Communism, advent of, 29, 56

Tumansky, Sergei, 178

U-2s (aircraft), 178-179

Ukrainians (people), 99n

United States:

aircraft, 14, 73, 100, 156, 174, 175, 178-179, 185

Belenko in, 142-213

combat simulator, 182-183

medical care, 190-192

Soviet Army teachings

about, 67-69

Soviet lobbying in, 134-135, 227

United States: (continued) State Department, 126, 128, 130, 131, 165-167

Watergate scandal, 86-87

U.S. Air Force: fighter

base, 155-156

U.S. Navy: aircraft carrier, 161-164

Voluntary Society for Assistance to the Army, Air Force and Navy (DOS-AAF),44

classes, 47-51

Vorontsov, Yuli, 135,165, 166-167

Vietnam:

My Lai massacre, 69

Wild Weasel pilots, 154-155

Virginia:

apartment, 155

bar, 158-159

countryside, 146

shopping center, 146-149

Volodin, Vladimir Stepanovich, 13

Watergate scandal: United States, 86-87

Wild Weasel pilots, 154-155

Yakov, Igor Andronovich, 45, 46, 47

Zeks (prisoners), 28-29, 95, 222

Photo Insert

^{Lt. Viktor Belenko’s Soviet MiG-25 jet interceptor at Hakodate Airport in northern Japan on September 6, 1976.}

^{Japanese security officers guard the partly covered super-secret aircraft, which has slid to a halt after overshooting the runway. (ASAHI SHIMBUN PHOTO)}

^{Disassembled and packed, the MiG-25 is loaded onto a Russian ship at Hitachi port on November 12, 67 days after Belenko flew the super-secret jet to Hakodate Airport. (KYODO NEWS SERVICE PHOTO)}

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