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The War Behind Me: Vietnam Veterans Confront the Truth about War Crimes
"'The War Behind Me' describes our search for answers, not only from the archive but also from the men named in it. We tracked down veterans accused of committing atrocities, witnesses who reported them, and higher-ups who covered them up."
Tags: Vietnam; war crimes; veterans; massacres; Quang Nam; My Lai; National Archives; declassified army investigations;
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The War Behind Me: Vietnam Veterans Confront the Truth about War Crimes
This book was born out of an archive of war-crime reports from the Vietnam war. Declassified in 1990, they shed light on the extent of such atrocities during the Vietnam conflict. "The War Behind Me describes our search for answers, not only from the archive but also from the men named in it. We tracked down veterans accused of committing atrocities, witnesses who reported them, and higher-ups who covered them up."
Tags: Vietnam; war crimes; atrocities; Army; My Lai; Quang Nam; massacre; Swift Boat Veterans; FOIA; National Archives; Marine; Veterans Administration; war
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Vietnam: The War Crime Files
"An LA Times investigation- based on thousands of declassified records from the Army chief of staff's office, scores of interviews and a trip to Vietnam- found that U.S. troops reported more than 800 war crimes in Vietnam, yet many were publicly discredited even as the military uncovered evidence that they were telling the truth."
Tags: Vietnam; war crime; army; military; torture; murder; My Lai; Seymour Hersh; national archive
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Gunrunners
This Web site was done jointly with a PBS Frontline/Word episode, "Gunrunners," which examined the "secret activities of international gun smugglers and the efforts of United Nations investigators to track and stop this trafficking," according to the contest questionnaire.
Tags: weapons; trade; crime; military intelligence; CIA; U.S. Customs; Department of Defense; arms; Somalia; Interpol; irewar03
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The City of Dallas' sick time policy
Analyzing a database of Dallas personnel records, KDFW-Dallas/Fort Worth found city workers burning weeks of sick time just before retirement. Retiring workers took off 3½ times more sick time than the average worker. Retiring firefighters burn the most sick time, and get paid for more sick hours than other city workers, the investigation found. Adrian concludes that the City of Dallas is about to spend more than twice the national average sick time cost found in a survey of more than 300 companies.
Tags: absenteeism; employment; labor; personnel; public sector; private sector
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Mayaguez
CBS News investigates what happened to three American troops left behind alive on Koh Tang Island in the last battle of America's war in Southeast Asia. The mission of the Marines who fought the battle was to save the crew of the SS Mayaguez, a merchant ship seized by the Cambodians. "For decades the mission was hailed as a victory. In truth, it was a military disaster in which bad intelligence cost American lives," the segment reveals. Other findings include that the government knew the three Marines left behind were alive; that the men could have been saved for days, possibly weeks, before being captured and executed; and that their families were told that the troops died in combat.
Tags: TAPE; TRANSCRIPT; FOIA; National Archives; military; Pentagon; intelligence; Vietnam
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Who Owns the Lubomirski Durers?
ARTworks follows through the centuries the path of Lubomirski Durers, a group of great drawings worth millions of dollars. The paintings were placed in a Polish museum in 1823 by Prince Henryk Lubomirski, later seized by the Soviets, exposed in a Ukrainian library, and finally looted by the Nazis. The art pieces were discovered by U.S. troops and secretly turned over to the grandson of Prince Lubomirski by order of the State department, the story reveals. Now both the Polish museum and the Ukrainian library demand the return, but American high-level diplomats and ten museums in the U.S.A. Canada and Europe have made a decision to reject the claims. "Experts say [this] is the most complicated of all war-loot restitution cases," the magazine reports.
Tags: National Archives; Monuments; Fine Arts & Archives (MFA&A); Central Collecting Point (CCP) Munich; property; National Gallery of ART; Ossolinski National Institute in Lemberg (Lviv; Lvov); CAR
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Search for Justice
ABC News 20/20 reports "an investigation of one of Germany's largest pharmaceutical companies Bayer and its role in human medical experimentation on concentration camp inmates during World War II. .... documented for the first time the depth and scope of Bayer's involvement in human medical experiments in concentration camps. The research protocol in (one) case involved infecting healthy children with life-threatening diseases like typhus and then using experimental Bayer vaccines to see if they could combat the disease...."
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Nazi Loot in American Museums
ABC News set out to unravel the mystery of how tens of thousands of precious artworks stolen during World War II by the Nazis from Jewish families disappeared from Hitler's secret stash in Paris only to resurface decades later in prominent museums and galleries around the world. The story asked whether American museums and art dealers had been willing to overlook the sometimes clouded history of the art they acquired. Had they unknowingly - or knowingly - collaborated with the Nazis by keeping valuable art from its rightful owners?
Tags: TAPE; VIDEO; Holocaust; Hector Feliciano; National Archives
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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.