if the space shuttle orbital position was not above 007 at the time 007 entered Soviet airspace theory that 007 was used as sigint bait can be dismissed outright. If the space shuttle orbital position was indeed above 007 in soviet airspace the theory that 007 was nothing but sigint bait for russian RADARs might be true. It's like someone having car accident and claiming that he was blinded by sun reflecting from the lake. To prove this true or false one needs to calculate sun position and angle.
I remember your theory. It was in a book called
Day of the Cobra.
It has only one teensy-weensy defect.
In order for this one to work, the Earth has to be flat...