[JDoutrider]

We knew, now we know...

[ClearCase_guy]

Is this coming from Bob Woodward's interview with Casey? Or someone else just trying to imitate the master?

[NC_Libertarian]

[ladyinred]

Why would this person keep this a secret for so long?

[Mr. Bird]

Well, a "top aide" to Reagan who is now in Congress? Can someone with some time on their hands do a quick search of the 535 members? Can't be too many that fit that profile....

[Boonie Rat]

At the close of the war, when nixon and kissinger were saying "all American POWs" are home, an NSA analyst named Mooney was tracking over 500 LIVE POWS. Mooney testified before congress regarding this. I have a copy of the Congressional report that ADMITTED live POWs were left in captivity. My fervent prayer is that nixon is in a very hot place awaiting kissinger.

Boonie Rat

MACV SOCOM, PhuBai/Hue '65-'66

[Ditto]

Read the David Hendrix testomony before the Senate. It may well be that most returned home secretly while some did in fact choose to stay behind.

[SerpentDove]

Not to dispute the exisence of living MIAs (I don't know) but...

We are supposed to take the word of ONE unnamed source?!?! When Reagan is not mentally fit to defend himself? Get real.

[commish]

Ok - it just has to be said -- my apologies before hand

WHAT did the President Know, and WHEN did he FORGET it!!

[cynicom]

The author should put a name on it or stop peddaling such gossip.

[Buffalo Head]

No, you don't know - you believe.

I don't believe this story.

[mv1]

While he was in office he was, to me, the perfect President.
Out of office he did some things on 2nd Amendment that even son Michael knows were wrong.
I cannot ever give a pass to leaving our boys behind, never.

[Liberty Ship]

Kissinger promised billions in aid to (North) Viet Nam as part of our exit strategy. We never paid it. Instead, Kissinger sent Bud McFarland who I believe was with State Department at the time over with a C-5 full of medical and humanitarian supplies. I have always believed that in that context the "abandoned POW theory" was very credible. They held them as security against a promise that never materialized. As time passed and the bureaucracy's immune system moved to protect itself, it just became easier for the government to "let it go" than address it.

I also heard an interview with a very believable Army Captain once on a TV talk show. He claimed that he was sent to verify the existence of POW's in Viet Nam during the 80's (Regan administratin). He was dispatched from Korea and told to check a particular detention area, covert insertion. He said he did what anyone with a brain would do and checked a different one than he was told to. He and the guy with him actually laid eyes on what he believed to be US POW's. He was directly connected to "the White House" and was told to disengage. He did so expecting that there would be subsequent action, but there never was. I remember concluding at the time that his White House interface would have been McFarlane at the time...

[STONEWALLS]

......about 1700 American servicemen deserted "in country" in Vietnam....some were involved in criminal activities and stayed behind of their own choosing at war's end (think: Christopher Walken in 'Deerhunter').....others made their way home thru Asia and Europe.....others were believed to have been executed by the NVA upon detection after the fall of Saigon.....these American deserters are believed by some to be the basis of some of the "sightings" that came to the attention of the POW/MIA community desperate for hope in the 70's and 80s.....it's a little known and very sad chapter of the war.....
Stonewalls

[A CA Guy]

Reagan can't speak for himself, so this junk comes out.

Next expect that it will be said Reagan was a homosexual.

[Timesink]

Sorry, but this is "put up or shut up" material. Either the "unnamed source" comes out publicly, and provides some sort of corroboration, even circumstantial, our only choice is to believe this story is complete fiction.