1. Report from the Escape and
Evasion Section of the 6004th Air Intelligence
Service Squadron, Oct. 19. 1955 - Ashley and four
crew members, (Turner, Olsen, Shaddick, and Ishida)
were known to be alive in Communist hands as of the
close of the Korean conflict, Jul 53.@ What happened
to these men?
2. "I am not certain that we have
fully clarified everything. I know that quite a few
documents were destroyed. However, one document,
probably sensational, is still in storage. I have a
copy of it. It's content is as follows: at the end
of the 1960s the KGB (external foreign intelligence)
was given the task of "delivering informed Americans
to the USSR for intelligence gathering purposes.@
General Dmitri Volkogonov, Chairman Russian side of
the U.S./Russian Joint Commission on POW/MIAs. Would
General Volkogonov made such a statement without....
evidence?
3. Testimony of Avraham Shifrin
before the Subcommittee to Investigate the
Administration of the Internal Security Act and
Other Internal Security Laws, Committee on the
Judiciary United States Senate, February 1, 1973 -
"First I must ask you to excuse my English, because
I cannot speak like you. I learned my English in
concentration camps and my first teachers were
kidnapped American officers."
4. Dispatch No. 947 to the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Union of Soviet
Socialist Republic from American Embassy Moscow
April 5, 1954 (note: on the document April is
crossed out and May is handwritten in) - "The United
States Government has recently received reports
which support earlier indications that American
prisoners of war who had seen action in Korea have
been transported to the Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics and that they are now in Soviet custody.
5. Joint Casualty Resolution
Center Message Traffic 282114Z Jan 92 - The fact is
an anthropologist with many years of experience
rendered a professional opinion that based on the
condition of Lt. Mc Kinnie's (sic) remains, he was
alive subsequent to Operation Homecoming....
6. Today, Defense Department files
contain evidence that at least 59 Americans were --
or may have been -- taken prisoner and their precise
fate is still unclear. This includes the 20-30 not
officially acknowledged by Vietnam in 1973. This
represents the minimum number of possible live POWs
today…. U.S. field teams in Vietnam since 1989 have
uncovered evidence that more Americans were in fact
taken captive than officially recorded.” (Memo dated
August 17, 1992, “The Universe of Possible POWs:
1973 versus 1992” by Sedgwick D. Tourison for the
Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs 1991 -
93.)
7. "As of now, I can come to no
other conclusion,." Former Secretary of Defense and
CIA Director James Schlesinger before the Senate
Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs, when asked
directly if the United States left men behind in
Southeast Asia. Support H.Res 111 It's time for
another look at the POW/MIA Issue!
