MiG Pilot: The Final Escape of Lt. Belenko

Index

Agriculture, in USSR, 26-27

harvest, 51-52,72, 87-88

Khrushchev’s plan, 37-38

Air Force, U.S.: fighter base, 156

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

Alcohol consumption, 12, 35-36, 95

aircraft alcohol, 82-83,98

United States, 159

workers, 46, 54

Alekseyevna, Nadezhda, 48, 49, 50, 51, 53, 59

Armament production:

Omsk, USSR, 44, 53

Armavir, USSR, 61-63, 65-66,72

B-1 (aircraft), 74

B-70 (aircraft), plans for, 177, 179

Baltimore Sun: editorial quoted, 138

Bandera, Stepan, 99n

Belenko, Viktor Ivanovich:

DOSAAF training:

flight, 49-50

pre-flight, 47-48

father, 23, 25, 26-27, 29, 30, 64

flight-instructor duty, 81-85

Japan, stay in, 109-122

lifestyle, 22

alcohol use, 36, 217

Belenko, Viktor Ivanovich: (continued)

medical-school career, 51,52

mother: press-conference appearance, 137

physical appearance, 8-9

recovery by Russians, importance of, 124—125

Soviet Army cadet training, 62-63, 65-75

stepmother, 29-30, 33,64

United States, 142-213

wife, 8

(See also Petrovna, Ludmilla)

worker, 44-47, 53-57, 58

youth, 23-44

boxing mastery, 33,35

pranks, 32-33

reading habits, 31, 32, 33, 41

schooling, 27, 28, 30-31, 40-41, 42-44

Brezhnev, Leonid I., 40, 88

Brown, Frederick, 128

Galley, William, 69n

Carr, M. Robert: article by, quoted, 175

Chechens (people), 70

Chitose, Japan: military base, 19, 20, 107

Cholera, 65-66

Chuguyevka, USSR, 8, 95

base near, 9-12,96-98, 100-106, 218

Cockroaches, Belenko’s fascination with, 26

Collective farms, 25, 26, 27, 51-52, 72, 87-88

Combat simulator: United States, 182-183

Communist Party: teachings of, 28, 56

United States, 66

Communist Weekend, 10, 13

Concentration camps: near Rubtsovsk, USSR, 28

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

Kolkhozes (collective farms), 25, 26-27, 51-52, 72, 87-88

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

Newsweek: quoted, 175

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

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