Parzival
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RE: N.Korea: US student cries & admits to being "severe criminal" during...
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/real-life-stories/american-soldier-found-living-vietnam-1862473
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War_POW/MIA_issue#Kerry_committee
http://www.nytimes.com/1996/07/19/world/decades-later-tales-of-americans-in-soviet-jails.html
They don't tell you everything...
Quintus Curtius said:Parzival said:There are rumours that the Soviets did kidnap US Soldiers that had be held prison in the eastern parts of Germany. They kidnap them to the Soviet union. There was also an report about John Kerry that did investigate about kidnapped US Soldiers in the Vietnam war, that they had be brought to the USSR.
Parzifal,
Are there any actual documented cases of this? I'm not finding anything with Google searches. As far as I can tell, only the North Koreans do this sort of thing.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/real-life-stories/american-soldier-found-living-vietnam-1862473
American soldier presumed dead 44 years ago 'found living in remote Vietnam village'
He was captured and tortured but survived and went on to build a new life, according to a startling documentary
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War_POW/MIA_issue#Kerry_committee
"We acknowledge that there is no proof that U.S. POWs survived, but neither is there proof that all of those who did not return had died. There is evidence, moreover, that indicates the possibility of survival, at least for a small number, after Operation Homecoming.
http://www.nytimes.com/1996/07/19/world/decades-later-tales-of-americans-in-soviet-jails.html
about 500 American military prisoners kept after World War II by Stalin as bargaining chips; about 30 F-86 pilots and crewmen captured during the Korean War and transferred to the Soviet Union in a secret aircraft industry intelligence operation; and as many as 100 American airmen who survived downings of spy planes over Soviet territory during the cold war.
"Clearly, there were a lot of Americans washing around the gulag, but it is unimaginable that any of the World War II prisoners are still alive," said Paul M. Cole, who wrote a three-volume report for the Rand Corporation in 1994 on American prisoners from World War II, the Korean War and the cold war who were held in the Soviet Union.
"In 1955, a repatriated Japanese P.O.W. identified a picture of my dad," said Mr. Sanderson, who was born a few months after his father was shot down. "He could still be alive. It was just in 1992 that the Russians freed the last 80 Japanese P.O.W.'s from World War II."
On both sides, ingrained traditions of secrecy seem to block progress.
"Even as Government 'insiders' with security clearances, we had great difficulty in locating documents" from United States Government agencies, Col. Stuart A. Herrington of the Army, the task force's American deputy director, wrote in an appraisal in 1994. "Once located, documents are frequently classified -- often mindlessly."
They don't tell you everything...