Posted on 05/14/2005 6:05:01 AM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
Don't ever believe that our government tried to get the POW's. The families got lip service and an empty cup - still goes on today.
Bump for later
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Besides evidence contrary to DPMO's stated position on the "Cuban Program," the documents I examined reveal:
the possibility that a number of American POWs from the Vietnam War had been held in Los Maristas, a secret Cuban prison run by Castro's G-2 intelligence service. The Cuban who claims to have seen them later escaped and made it to the United States, and was reportedly debriefed by the FBI;
a Cuban Official had offered the State Department to ransom some American POWs from Vietnam, but there was no follow up;
that Cubans, along with Russians, guarded a number of American POWs in Laos;
the Cubans photographed a number of American POWs in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia;
that besides the "Cuban Program," the Cubans were very heavily involved in Vietnam. They had several thousand "engineers" in Vietnam constructing, repairing and guarding the Ho Chi Minh Trail where a large number of Americans disappeared; the possibility that American POWs were "treated" in Cuban hospitals in Hanoi;
the Cubans had a permenant DGI agent assigned to the COSVN headquarters in Cambodia, the North Vietnamese command center directing the war in South Vietnam.
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1209454/posts?page=201#201
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The loss of pilots was further exacerbated by Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's Dr. Strangelove-like obsession of directing targets to be bombed at the same time every day. To some, it seemed as if DOD, led by McNamara, was intentionally aiding the communists by providing them with some of our best and brightest military minds [e.g., one F-111 pilot was shot down over North Vietnam shortly after leaving the Gemini space program.] Concurrently the Soviet equivalent to the Gemini program made quantum leaps over the next two years in the area of the F-111 pilot's specialty. An F-111 capsule was found in a Russian museum by U.S. investigators. There are several other similar examples of vast improvement in communist technologies after the capture of these pilots. According to DIA's "asset", the American POWs were "a gold mine of information to brief ... specialists in the technologies used by the enemy."
Michael D. Benge
2300 Pimmit Drive, #604-W
Falls Church, VA 22043
Tel: (703) 698-8256 (H)
(202) 712-4043 (W)
October 4, 1999
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Michael D. Benge spent 11 years in Vietnam, over five years as a prisoner of war--1968-73, and is a diligent follower of the affairs of the region. While serving as a civilian Foreign Service Officer, he was captured in South Vietnam by the North Vietnamese, and held in numerous camps in South Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and North Vietnam. He spent 27 months in solitary confinement and one year in a "black box." For efforts in rescuing several Americans before being captured, he received the Department of State's highest award for heroism and a second one for valor.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1209454/posts?page=204#204
The Venona Cables
Links:
NSA Web site, "Introductory History of VENONA and Guide to the Translations, http://www.nsa.gov/docs/venona/monographs/monograph-1.html
NSA Web site, "Introduction to the VENONA Project,"
http://www.nsa.gov/docs/venona/index.html
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1209454/posts?page=227#227
John Kerry, VVAW and the FBI files.
SO WHAT? And who cares? After any plane crash, train derailment, or industrial accident, experts conduct analyses and seek to determine the culpability of anyone who had the slightest connection with what occurred. Likewise with crime: in a lawful society, even petty offenses are subject to investigation, judgment, and punishment, and serious offenses all the more so. War crimes? The embers in Bosnia had not yet cooled before an international tribunal was established to look into the atrocities committed in that conflict.Will politicians ever have the stomach to examine this holocaust on humanity? A full reckoning of communism's crimes may take a hundred Nuremberg trials.Only the USSR has been given a special dispensation. What happened there was a catastrophe that affected practically every country in the world, wasted hundreds of billions of dollars, took scores of millions of lives, and nearly brought about global destruction, and yet no one, no one, has been brought to account.
Perhaps the best we can do is hang a few of our local 'progressives'.
"How old is this article? Dornan and Clinton are both gone." - KidGlock
Exactly. This is an important story, but it is totally bone-headed for Insight Magazaine and Tailgunner Joe to date it as current.
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thanks for the posts, bttt.
Excellent work Calpernia. ~jj
And I'd be very careful with relying on Gen. Sejna's information. For example: Does anyone recall the Prague Spring and the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia? Do you really think the KGB would have entrusted the Czechs to carry out experiments on POWs AT THE SAME TIME they were distrusting them enough to invade them to keep them from turning to the West??
FootNote to Post 19
Points of contact cite:
Major Tim Falkowski, Project Manager
Chief Petty Officer Michael Allen, Gulag Study Analyst
are no longer current contacts for the Gulag study.
They were contributors to the intel product that is posted and were contacts at that time.
THANK YOU so much for the link!! I try to hold onto these things when I can find them...
If you have a McCain ping list, please add me. But I will do my part and keep my eyes open.
I sincerely hope he is NOT a candidate for President.
Thanks again! ~jj
As we all know, Communism does a poor job at producing technology.
bttt
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