Incident at Sakhalin

I just finished reading the book “incident at sakhalin” . it states that flight 007
was just part of a large scale US attempt to provoke the Ussr air defence network with half a dozen planes of different types at the same time and that a bunch of Mig23 and Mig31 fighters shot a few of these intruders down , the Flt 007 being among the last to be put down well south of the main battle.

so how credible is the books story – does it agree with soviet records declassified in the 1990s ? some of the background data like deliberate provocations by multi-CVN task groups under the Reagan policy appear to be correct.

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