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"Senator Jesse Helms, Senator Steve Symms of Idaho and Representative Carroll Hubbard, Jr. of Kentucky, all the most anti-New World Order members of Congress, were going to Korea with McDonald but they ended up on separate flights at the last minute."

If some shadow organization had the power to order the soviets to shoot down a civilian airliner, they also had they power to eliminate a handful of troublesome legislators through much easier methods. Helms, Symms and Hubbard were around for years after this incident.

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Those guys were just a bonus, part of the cost-benefit analysis of the op.

Maybe they got the message. Like when Bush family friend Hinkley took that shot at Reagan. It didn't kill him and it didn't have to. Reagan got the message.