A presumptive finding of death in each case!
Disturbing Information
A presumptive finding of death in each case!
Disturbing Information
KOREA - WHAT IS THE U.S. DOING TO GET THOSE 10 - 15 POWS HOME!
THE FOLLOWING IS EXCERPTED FROM A BACKGROUND PAPER TITLED
"ACCOUNTABILITY OF MISSING AMERICANS FROM THE KOREAN WAR --
LIVE-SIGHTING REPORTS."
"THE U.S. GOVERNMENT HAS RECEIVED NUMEROUS REPORTS CONCERNING AMERICANS
LIVING OR DETAINED IN NORTH KOREA AFTER THE PRISONER EXCHANGES WITH NORTH
KOREA IN 1953. BASED ON NUMBER OF UNACCOUNTED FOR PERSONNEL CAPTURED BY
THE COMMUNIST FORCES AND NOT RETURNED FROM THE KOREAN WAR AND, A NUMBER
OF RECENT LIVE AMERICAN SIGHTINGS IN NORTH KOREA, THE DPMO CONCLUDES THAT
THERE ARE TWO GROUPS OF AMERICANS IN NORTH KOREA... A SMALL GROUP OF
DEFECTORS AND A LARGER GROUP OF 10 - 15 POSSIBLE POWS."
"A SECOND, LARGER GROUP OF AMERICANS IS COMPRISED OF US SERVICE MEMBERS,
MOST LIKELY POWS FROM THE KOREAN WAR AND POSSIBLY VIETNAM WAR ERA. THERE
HAVE BEEN NUMEROUS REPORTS OF BOTH AMERICAN AND BRITISH POWS IN NORTH KOREA.
ONE OF THE MOST COMPELLING REPORTS RECEIVED OVER THE YEARS WAS A SIGHTING
REPORTED TO DOD BY A ROMANIAN IN 17 FEB 1988."
"SINCE THE OPRICA/TOMESCU SIGHTINGS A VARIETY OF ADDITIONAL SIGHTINGS
REPORTS HAVE BEEN RECEIVED, CULMINATING IN A RECENT FLURRY (LAST 60 DAYS)
OF VERY COMPELLING REPORTS."
THE REPORT CONCLUDES BY SAYING "THERE ARE TOO MANY LIVE SIGHTING REPORTS,
SPECIFICALLY OBSERVATIONS OF SEVERAL CAUCASIANS IN A COLLECTIVE FARM BY
ROMANIANS AND THE NORTH KOREAN DEFECTORS' EYEWITNESS OF AMERICANS IN THE
DPRK TO DISMISS THAT THERE ARE NO AMERICAN POW'S IN NORTH KOREA."
THE REPORT WAS PREPARED BY I.O. LEE: DPMO AS OF 03/26/96.
