In a ceremony to be televised from the Kremlin, Yeltsin will present an American delegation representing families of the disaster's victims with documents that may include transcripts from KAL 007's black box.
Korean Air Lines Flight 007 was shot down by Soviet fighter planes over Sakhalin Island in August 1983, killing all 269 aboard. After the accident, the government retrieved the 747's black box, and it has been concealed ever since.
Yeltsin has already announced that he would give information from KAL 007's flight recorder and other materials to South Korea.
The new evidence could finally decide the theory that KAL 007 was acting as an American spy plane.
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