[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

[JDoutrider]

What they must have meant was "All the "0" grade POW'S have been released"...

I believe only a few enlisted POW'S were released at the time. As you know, being with MACV and all, most enlisted men were not captured, but killed, as they didn't have the "trade value" an officer had.

JDoutrider

PhuBai/Ashau Valley/Laos

Hundred and Worse

Pukin Buzzard grunt

[Mark17]

My fervent prayer is that nixon is in a very hot place awaiting kissinger.

Not to mention LBJ, who is most likely also in that same hot place. Bien Hoa, 70-71.

[habaes corpussel]

"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."

There was a intelligence report of a letter dated in 1983 from SECSTATES Office to the Vietnamese Government at that time asking for a last ditch effort for release of live POWs. It was reported that this letter was in NSA's classified vaults. Whether this article is true or not knowing the source (NewsMax) and if NewsMax has this information it has a moral obligation to discuss it with DOD's Office of POWs as well as the Armed Services and Veterans Affairs Chairmen.

But, knowing the press, if this story was true, this would be a block buster and to good to hold the sources back. I have my doubts.

[Quix]

i SURE have long felt there were plenty left behind. I don't trust any of them to be entirely candid for a long list of reasons. Reagan COULD sometimes be tooo trusting of what he was told, IMHO.

If someone made a patriotic sounding case for the status quo, I can IMAGINE Reagan accepting it. If someone made a quasi threatening case he may have decided it was one battle he didn't need to fight with too little prospect for wining it.