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Search results for "POWs" ...
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The Unreturned
An examination of the fate of American combatants secretly taken into the Soviet Union during the Korean War.
Tags: Korean War; POWs; KGB; Soviet Union; Sabre; Siberia; U.S. Air Force; American prisoners-of-war; Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office; Memorial Society
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Is John McCain a War Hero?
This article examines presidential candidate Senator John McCain's war record and focuses on the time he spent as a prison of war in Hanoi during the Vietnam War. It also investigates "a small but vocal subculture of Americans who claim that McCain is anything but a war hero.... Most of these individuals' claims dissolve under scrutiny, but their anguish over their loved ones' fate is real, and so is the animosity with McCain that exists both ways."
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America's Top-Secret Spy War
U.S. News & World Report conducts a six month investigation using 10,000 classified records which had been sealed away at the National Archives for nearly 30 years. The records and more than 150 follow-up interviews reveal an aggressive U.S. espionage campaign whose full scope has never before been disclosed.
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Her Own Private Tailhook
The New York Times Magazine reports that "after the Gulf War, the Air Force Academy beefed up cadet training with a mock rape 'scenario.' Elizabeth Saum was the first casualty.
Tags: Department of Defense; DOD military training Persian Gulf POW prisoner General Accounting Office GAO SERE Survival Evasion Resistance and Escape; irewar03; war; military
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No title (id: 10698)
California Zephyr describes the secret relocation of American POW's from Vietnam to the United States. Paper trail and computer data show POW's and captives were given new identities and medical care at U.S. Airforce and Veteran's Administration hospitals. The article links the secret relocation to the normalization of relations between the U.S. and Vietnam, 1994.
Tags: CA Rogers CAJ Military POW's Returned Secretly From Vietnam; 17 pgs.
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No title (id: 10467)
Penthouse describes how six successive presidential administrations, Congress and the media have allowed the issue of Vietnam prisoners of war to be forgetten; documents and interviews describe POW sightings and the existence of a separate POW prison system and statistics point to the fact that some prisoners had to have been left alive, possibly up to the present, August 1994.
Tags: DC Schanberg MIA Veterans Administration Defense Intelligence 12 pages
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No title (id: 9604)
American Legion Magazine compiles, through military and congressional experts, nine recommendations for U.S. law and foreign policy which will prevent problems with POW/MIAs in future wars, March 1993.
Tags: Epstein 14 pages
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No title (id: 9411)
Morning News Tribune (Tacoma, Wash.) looks at the POW-MIA issue and reveals how the U.S. Government knowingly abandoned hundreds of U.S. POWs in the Soviet Union after World War II, Korea, the Cold War and Vietnam; also reveals that Americans were left in China, North Korea and Southeast Asia, 1992.
Tags: WA Sauter CAJ
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No title (id: 9393)
ABC News 20/20 (New York) reveals that a former U.S. Air Force officer who had raised millions of dollars from Americans by claiming he knew the location of POW/MIAs from the Vietnam War was nothing more than a con artist who has a long history of POW fraud, June 5, 1992.
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No title (id: 9215)
Time magazine investigates the question of American prisoners of war left in Southeast Asia; looks into the individual cases of several missing-in-action servicemen as well as the groups that solicit money from family members of POW/MIA's; reveals the hunt for missing Americans in Vietnam is little more than a corrupt enterprise that takes advantage of the false hopes of the families.
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