Official Policy: Abandon POWs
Our American POW/MIAs have been betrayed and abandoned by our elected leaders in Washington, and these same leaders have consistently lied to the American public on this issue. (February...
Perhaps the saddest and most despicable Vietnam policy from Washington involved the abandonment of thousands of American POWs and MIAs in Vietnam and Laos. Extensive documentation clearly shows that top government leaders intentionally abandoned many hundreds of POWs shortly after Operation Homecoming, and in the years that followed covered up the evidence of live American POWs in Vietnamese and even Soviet captivity.
Seven Myths About the Vietnam War
Three decades after pulling out of Southeast Asia, America remains hostage to a relentless barrage of distortion, myths, and outright lies about the Vietnam War. (March 2002) ...
America’s POW Secrets Exposed
“You are here to learn,” a Communist Chinese camp official explained to an American POW near the Manchurian-Chinese border in early 1951. The POW, U.S. Army Major Fred A....
Final Abandonment of POWs?
Who says President Clinton is not serious about resolving the issue of POW/MIAs who were left behind in Southeast Asia? Why, he unveiled a postage stamp in June commemorating...
Clinton Sells Out on POW/MIAs
President Clinton’s announcement on February 3rd that he was lifting the U.S. trade embargo on Vietnam should have surprised no one. By now even the most naive must know...
POWs and Truth Held Ransom
The Men We Left Behind: Henry Kissinger, the Politics of Deceit and the Tragic Fate of POWs After the Vietnam War, by Mark Sauter and Jim Sanders, Bethesda, MD:...
A Wound That Won’t Heal
The final report of the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs covers much but has finalized little. Though headlines in major newspapers and network news blurbs would have you...
No Thanks to Hanoi Just Yet
There has been a widespread spate of paeans and ringing expressions of relief concerning Hanoi’s supposed new candor on the MIA issue. Is it time to give the devil...
President Bush to POW/MIA Families:”Shut Up and Sit Down!”
The dam is beginning to crack badly, and a flood of hitherto concealed intelligence about Americans who were long held by the communists — some undoubtedly alive until at...
Bring Them Home!
It is an issue that refuses to die, one that will not go away. The callous abandonment of our fighting men in Southeast Asia by venal politicians and criminal...
They Deserve to Come Home
Barbara Robertson’s conviction is unshaken. Despite her government’s campaign to discredit the now-famous POW photo that hit the front pages of newspapers nationwide in July, she is certain that...
Exploding the POW Cover-Up
Last October 29th, the Minority Staff of the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, under the direction of Senators Jesse Helms (R-NC) and Charles Grassley (R-IA), released a bombshell:...
Mikhail Gorbachev, Let Our People Go
John M.G. Brown, a combat infantryman with the 1st and 9th Infantry Divisions in Vietnam, has been investigating the POW/MIA matter for seven years. He is the author of Rice...
The Few, The Proud, The Abandoned…
Every Effort, by Barbara Mullen Keenan, St. Martin’s Press, 1986, 351pp, hb. Rocky Marciano put my hometown on the map in the 1950s. It was a thrilling time for everyone...
Bring Them Home! – American POWs still languish in Southeast Asia
“There is no credible evidence to indicate that any Americans are currently being held against their will in Indochina.” — Official U.S. position1976-1981 “Although we have thus far been...
Our Forgotten Prisoners in Laos
Twenty two years ago this month the first American airman was shot down over North Vietnam and taken prisoner. Twenty years ago my husband, a Marine aviator, was shot...
Americans In Captivity
The deceit of the Communist Vietnamese and numerous U.S. government officials on the accounting for approximately 5,000 American soldiers from the Vietnam War — culminating in abandonment — is...
America’s Missing In Action
The Communist government of Vietnam has found an easy way out of dealing with the issue of American POWs still held hostage in Southeast Asia. In retaliation for the...
American POWs in Southeast Asia
Are American prisoners of war still being held hostage in Southeast Asia? A growing number of military and intelligence officers are publicly charging that not only are American POWs...
Vietnam Veterans Say, “Bring ‘Em Back Alive!”
Unquestionably, the live prisoner of war issue is of greatest concern to Vietnam veterans. As the comrades in arms who fought alongside those still missing, we have a legitimate...
MIAs and Reparations
Belmont, Massachusetts — Last May, Vietnamese officials claimed to have just discovered the remains of three American airmen missing since the Vietnam War. The first such remains reported since 1978,...
Catching the K.G.B.
The U.S. speaking tour of identified K.G.B. agent Wilfred Burchett has been a dismal failure. Instead of large campus crowds, Burchett has faced virtually empty halls; and, even in...
K.G.B. Agent Wilfred Burchett Tours U.S. Campuses
More than a thousand revolutionaries, radicals, and Communists jammed the Washington Irving High School auditorium in New York City on October 21st to hear a 66-year-old alien named (Peter)...
The Prisoners: Why Does America Abandon Her Own?
”I spent two minutes on the floor and repeated over and over the phrase…the phrase, ‘I love you, Rose.’ I thought this would keep my mind off what was...