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kate · Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2005 2:07 am Post subject:

John Kerry: The Chameleon Senator
By Ted Sampley
U.S. Veteran Dispatch October-December 1996 Issue
http://www.greenberet.net/Montagnard/2002/Nov/Kerry_Story.html

~snip
Kerry was a supporter of the "People's Peace Treaty," a supposed "people's" declaration to end the war, reportedly drawn up in communist East Germany. It included nine points, all of which were taken from Viet Cong peace proposals at the Paris peace talks as conditions for ending the war.

One of the provisions stated: "The Vietnamese pledge that as soon as the U.S. government publicly sets a date for total withdrawal [from Vietnam], they will enter discussion to secure the release of all American prisoners, including pilots captured while bombing North Vietnam."

In other words, Kerry and his VVAW advocated the communist line to withdraw all U.S. troops from Vietnam first and then negotiate with Hanoi over the release of prisoners. Had the nine points of the "People's Peace Treaty" favored by Kerry been accepted by American negotiators, the United States would have totally lost all leverage to get the communists to release any POWs captured during the war years.
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kate · Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2005 2:08 am Post subject:

http://www.soft-vision.com/hanoi/
In Memory of Col. Ted W. Guy

http://moonpie.home.att.net/fred.htm
Fred McMurray POW site
has links
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kate · Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2005 2:22 am Post subject:

Research thread by Calpernia @ Free Republic
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-vetscor/1274257/posts

"CLASSIFIED POW/MIA INFORMATION"
Hardcopied articles ordered from Congressional Record

posts have full text of articles / this is a list by post numbers in the thread

0)
Senate - July 31, 1990 Charles E. Grassley, U.S. Senator.

1)
April 16, 1990. The Assistant Secretary of Defense, Washington, DC,

2)
May 24, 1990. U.S. Senate, Washington, DC, Hon. Richard Cheney, Secretary, Department of Defense,

3)
April 27, 1992 Memorandum for: Vice Chairman, Senate Select Committee on Prisoners of War and Missing in Action From: John F. McCreary

4)
May 3, 1992 Memorandum for: Vice Chairman, Senate Select Committee on Prisoners of War and Missing in Action From: John F. McCreary

5)
October 30, 1992 Memorandum for the Record From: John F. McCreary Subject: Obstruction of the Investigation

6,7,8 )
INTERIM REPORT ON POW/MIA'S (Senate - October 27, 1990)

9,10,11)
EXPRESSING THE SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING AMERICANS STILL MISSING OR OTHERWISE UNACCOUNTED FOR IN SOUTHEAST ASIA
(House of Representatives - July 12, 1990)

14)
TERRY ANDERSON (Senate - September 27, 1991)

15)
TERRY ANDERSON, FRANK REED, AND BRIAN KEENAN (Senate - July 10, 1990)

16)
PRESIDENT STONEWALLING ON AMERICAN POW'S AND MIA'S (Senate - October 31, 1995)

17)
OFFICE OF THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE COUNCIL OF MINISTERS OF THE SOVIET UNION FOR REPATRIATION
Department of Repatriation of Foreign Citizens // 1945

19)
WORLD WAR II: AMERICAN POWS AND MIAS

21)
CENTRAL COMMITTEE. COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE SOVIET UNION [TsK KPSS] Additional Measures To Expose Imperialist Policies

23)
Khruschev Letter to President Kennedy

24)
U.S. - Russia Joint Commission on POW/MIAs Joint Commission Support Directorate (JCSD) Vietnam War Working Group
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kate · Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2005 2:24 am Post subject:

FBI’s FOIA Reading Room
http://foia.fbi.gov/room.htm

American POWs/MIAs in Southeast Asia
http://foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex/powsmias.htm

4,888 pages ( in 48 pdf files)

kate · Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2005 5:04 pm Post subject:

more links

Official home page of the Vietnam era Prisoners of War (1961-1973)
http://www.nampows.org/

Naval Institute
Oral History
Vietnam POW Interviews
http://www.usni.org/oralhistory/Collections/pow.htm
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kate · Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 2:01 pm Post subject:

Concerned Americans Working to Return American POW/MIAs to America
http://www.greasyonline.com/

http://www.greasyonline.com/news/wmpeck.php
The Peck Resignation Letter
He was the head of the United States government office that is supposed to account for POW/MIAs. Read and find out why he resigned.

http://www.greasyonline.com/tfo/index.php
Task Force Omega
Evidence
•A Closer Look at an Ugly Issue - Did America Abandon Vietnam War POWs? Part 1
•A Closer Look at an Ugly Issue - Did America Abandon Vietnam War POWs? Part 2
•The Evidence Is Clear: There are LIVE American POWs in SE Asia!!
•Who is Hiding What? And from Whom?
•American POW's Left Behind by David S. Sullivan
•The Smoking Gun has been Found!

........and more
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kate · Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 3:04 pm Post subject:

see posts in this thread FBI Files > VVAW // CIA files > HanoiJane related to POWs
http://www.swiftvets.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=63915&sid=63915

Jane Fonda's propaganda broadcasts for the North Vietnamese
http://www.swiftvets.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=84335&sid=#84335

CIA reports and transcripts of broadcasts monitored by the Foreign Broadcast Information Service.
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kate · Posted: Wed May 11, 2005 5:43 am Post subject:

kate · Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2005 3:18 pm Post subject:

Library of Congress-link
The Vietnam-Era Prisoner-of-War/Missing-in-Action Database

This database has been established to assist researchers interested in investigating the U.S. Government documents pertaining to U.S. military personnel listed as unaccounted for as of December 1991. The title of this collection is "Correlated and Uncorrelated Information Relating to Missing Americans in Southeast Asia." The documents are declassified by the Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) and released to the Federal Research Division, Library of Congress, for public access

Contents:
• Search POW/MIA Database
• Updated Casualty List (More Names)
• History of the Database
• POW Bracelets/Contacts
• Summary Reports
• Ordering Information

Related Documents:
• The "McCain Bill"

• U.S. Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs

Report of the Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs (01/1993)

Hearings on the U.S. Government's Efforts to Learn the Fate of America's Missing Servicemen (11/1991)

Hearings on the U.S. Government's Efforts to Learn the Fate of America's Missing Servicemen (06/1992)

Hearings on U.S. Government's Post-War POW/MIA Efforts (08/1992)

Hearings on the Paris Peace Accords (09/1992)

Hearings on Cold War, Korea, WWII POWS (11/1992)

• U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee on Missing Persons in Southeast Asia
The Committee's Final Report was issued on December 13, 1976.

Final Report of the Select Committee on Missing Persons in Southeast Asia (12/1976)

Hearings on Missing Persons in Southeast Asia - Part 1 (09-10/1975)

Hearings on Missing Persons in Southeast Asia - Part 2 (11-12/1975)

Hearings on Missing Persons in Southeast Asia - Part 3 (02-03/1976)

Hearings on Missing Persons in Southeast Asia - Part 4 (04-06/1976)

Hearings on Missing Persons in Southeast Asia - Part 5 (06-09/1976)
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kate · Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2005 3:27 pm Post subject:

Library of Congress link
United States-Russia Joint Commission on POWs and MIAs
and the
Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office Joint Commission Support Division Archival Documents Databases

Working under authority of the U.S.-Russia Joint Commission on POW/MIAs, the Joint Commission Support Division (JCSD) of the United States Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) makes available to the public those documents obtained from archives in the former Soviet Union that pertain to Americans who are unaccounted for from World War II, the Korean Conflict, the Cold War, and the war in Southeast Asia. The documents have been translated from Russian into English.

The documents indexed in this database were retrieved from various official Soviet-era and Russian archives, and were redacted (edited) to remove personal information, as well as information regarding the location, condition, and treatment of the missing Americans. United States law requires redaction of such information in order to preserve privacy.

The archive folders often contain a large number of documents that relate to a particular event or subject. The documents offered to the public at this website were selected from those larger archival files according to their relevance to the actual cases of unaccounted-for Americans. Therefore, selected pages of often larger documents are included in this database. One archive subject heading may contain hundreds or thousands of pages of documents, only a few of which may cite information on the American(s) whose whereabouts is questioned. For example, the classification "TFR65-1" (designating "Task Force Russia") refers to archive document number 65, page one (and, in some cases, additional following pages). The user may also find the designation "TFR65-23," which indicates that the document being viewed is page 23 of document 65. Pages 2 through 22 may or may not have been translated and released to the public. This numbering system was established by the DPMO/JCSD personnel who actually examined and retrieved the documents.

The documents have been indexed in order to provide organized searching. The index includes the title of the document (or a statement concerning its subject if the document has no exact title), document date, the total number of pages, name(s) identified in the document, keywords, and comments giving the searcher additional information about the document. Once the search term(s) is entered in the search engine, a list of "hits" will appear. The searcher may click on each "hit" and then click on "view tiff image" link to view the image of the complete document.

Additional Information
• US-Russia Joint Commission Veteran Interview Database
• The Gulag Study, DPMO/JCSD
• Vietnam-Era POW/MIA Database
• Wringer Collection
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kate · Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2005 3:43 pm Post subject:

Two of the best non-government sites, each has a wealth of information...sample of their indexes

Advocacy & Intelligence Index For POWs-MIAs Archives
http://www.aiipowmia.com/

Welcome to the Advocacy & Intelligence Index For
POWs-MIAs Archives
Here you will find reports, testimony, statements, depositions, documents, daily news, articles, lists, updates and announcements on POWs and MIAs from ALL wars. The Archives are updated and added-to daily.

To better navigate the massive volume of material in the AII POW-MIA Archives, please use the Section Links above. Please Note - It is impossible to list every single item in the Archives on one menu page as there are tens of thousands of pages.

Sections
:: InterNetwork Daily News ::
:: Current Statistics All Wars ::
:: Operation Iraqi Freedom ::
:: Persian Gulf War ::
:: SouthEast Asia ::
:: Korean War - Cold War ::
:: World War II ::
:: Unit 731 ::
:: Critical Reports ::
:: USG Reports ::
:: Legislation ::
:: Hearings and Testimony ::
:: Presidential Determinations and Executive Orders ::
:: Monthly Updates ::
:: Research Links ::
:: Issue Histories ::
:: FaxNetwork Archived News ::

samples…behind the links.....

Documents, Articles, Testimony and Reports for Southeast Asia http://www.aiipowmia.com/sea/

Senate Select Committee Testimony & Depositions
http://www.aiipowmia.com/ssc/ssctest.html

Memos of John F. McCreary
John F. McCreary Memoranda - The 3 Memos That May Have Saved the Oral Intelligence Briefing
http://www.aiipowmia.com/ssc/mccreary.html

National Alliance of POW/MIA Families
http://www.nationalalliance.org/

RELIABLE SOURCES

KOREA - COLD WAR Were POWs Transfered to the Former Soviet Union

Did Vietnam Hold Back Prisoner of War?

Nhammarath.... ""We missed the best chance we ever had to find POWs still alive" former National Security Advisor Richard Allen

What Do the Vietnamese Know... and When Did They Know It.....

Foreign Involvement with American POWs in Southeast Asia

Government Failures in the POW/MIA Issue... In their own words....

Testimony

Case Specific Information

What Former POWs Have to Say

Archives

Project X
It was our research on a speicific case that led us to Project X. Over the years, we have looked at several of the Project X cases and discovered that Project X doesn't tell the whole story.

Read the Project X case summaries and where available, read what we've learned. In most cases the additonal information bolsters the conclusions reached by the Project X study.
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kate · Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 8:27 pm Post subject:

CIA's FOIA Reading Room
http://www.foia.cia.gov/

samples..

Special Collections....

The National Intelligence Council (NIC) Vietnam Collection
http://www.foia.cia.gov/nic_vietnam_collection.asp

Frequently Requested Records.....
Top 25 docs last month
# 1
INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT OF THE LIEUTENANT COMMANDER SPEICHER CASE

#5
VIETNAMESE INTENTIONS, CAPABILITIES, AND PERFORMANCE CONCERNING THE POW/MIA ISSUE
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