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U.S. - Russia Joint Commission on POW/MIAs
Joint Commission Support Directorate (JCSD)

Vietnam War Working Group

The Vietnam War Working Group (VWWG) was established in 1993. The U.S. Chairman is Senator Bob Smith (R-NH), former Vice Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs (1991-1993) and currently a senior member of the Senate Armed Services Committee. The Russian Chairman is General-Major Nikolay Maksimovich Bezborodov, an active duty Russian Air Force officer and three-term member of the Duma. Senator Smith has been a member of the Commission since its inception in 1992 and has co-chaired the working group since January 1997; General Bezborodov assumed his position as a member of the Commission and VWWG co-chairman in February 2000.

The American side of the Vietnam War Working Group seeks further information from Russian archives and Russian veterans of the Vietnam War about America's missing service members from that conflict. It is pursuing leads and information in a variety of areas.

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Inta
A Polish witness recalled meeting two Americans in Camp #3 in Inta in 1954. They worked in his brigade, which was led by Wladyslaw Szyszko. He related that while they were building a bridge one of the Americans jumped into the Kosju river and drowned.

Inta
A Russian witness claimed that from 1956 until 1975, the KGB maintained a facility on the shore of the river Inta. In 1965, people were brought to Inta from Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam, where they were imprisoned and killed, and their records burned in the boiler room in the eastern suburb on Shakhtnaya Street. More than 1000 people ended up in Inta prison, both American soldiers and officers. The witness claims that this information can be confirmed by Petr Ivanovich Kuznetsov, who worked as a driver for the MVD for twenty years. (He lives on Mir Street in Inta.)

It appears that this country needs to work on the enemy that is within.

I don't know how to get the word out, as most don't want to hear it.

Mike Savage, might work with this? He is convinced that our rotting is coming from the "Enemy Within".

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