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Castro’s Torture of American POWs in Vietnam
Frontpage ^ | December 9, 2016 | Jamie Glazov

Posted on 12/09/2016 3:39:15 AM PST by detective

The death of communist tyrant Fidel Castro has yielded much-deserved coverage of the monstrous nature of his tyrannical rule.

What has gone virtually unreported, however, is the direct and instrumental role Castro played in the torture and murder of American POWs in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. The story of Castro’s atrocities against American soldiers in this conflict is rarely ever told, least of all by our mainstream media.

During the Vietnam War, Castro sent a gang of his henchmen to run the “Cuban Program” at the Cu Loc POW camp in Hanoi, which became known as “the Zoo.” As Stuart Rochester and Frederick Kiley have documented in their book Honor Bound in a chapter entitled “The Zoo, 1967–1969: The Cuban Program and Other Atrocities,” one of the primary objectives of this “program” was to determine how much physical and psychological agony a human being could withstand.

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TOPICS: Cuba; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: castro; pows; torture; vietnam
Castro sent Cubans to North Vietnam to run a program that tortured American POWs.
1 posted on 12/09/2016 3:39:15 AM PST by detective
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To: detective

McCain of course made sure everyone in America knew this and that the U.S. govt made no overtures to legitimize Casto’s regime

Sarc


2 posted on 12/09/2016 3:57:39 AM PST by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: detective

where the hell was God in this?


3 posted on 12/09/2016 4:34:50 AM PST by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: silverleaf

USA should require full disclosure and documentation of who these war criminals were and where They are now. Commie Cuba has records on this. This should be one of the conditions for resumption of normalization of relations.


4 posted on 12/09/2016 4:43:48 AM PST by TnTnTn
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To: detective

Russia did the same to American POW’s in North Korea.


5 posted on 12/09/2016 4:52:13 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: detective

... I once heard (no source disclosed) that during the invasion of Grenada, US military forces discovered a “Cuban R&R” facility. The worst part of the story was that there were American English speaking females at the facility. After calling in the discovery, the troops were ordered to withdraw. ... Or so it went.


6 posted on 12/09/2016 5:00:10 AM PST by Coffee... Black... No Sugar (I'm gonna' BICKER!)
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To: yldstrk

Why don’t you ask Him?


7 posted on 12/09/2016 5:55:02 AM PST by IronJack
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To: yldstrk

“where the hell was God in this?”

Atheist communists did this, not God.


8 posted on 12/09/2016 6:23:59 AM PST by vladimir998 (Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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To: Coffee... Black... No Sugar

Grenada is English speaking, and the U.S. did not invade, we liberated it from the Cubans.


9 posted on 12/09/2016 6:58:49 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Psephomancers for Hillary!)
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To: IronJack

I have asked Him a lot of stuff. His creation is effed up.


10 posted on 12/09/2016 7:57:53 AM PST by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: yldstrk
"His creation is effed up."

Only the parts us humans have control of.

11 posted on 12/09/2016 10:10:12 AM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: yldstrk

Don’t be so hard on yourself.


12 posted on 12/09/2016 10:20:15 AM PST by IronJack
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To: detective

Bump


13 posted on 12/09/2016 6:18:47 PM PST by Popman
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