Vietnam releases MIA photos
WASHINGTON (AP) — U S officials on a
weekend trip to Vietnam gained access to a cache
of secret information, including thousands of
photographs, that could shod light on the fate of
Americans missing in action in the Vietnam War.
government sources said Tuesday.
"There's a good chance we'll got a lot of cases
solved — dozens, hundreds maybe," said one De
fense Department official, like others, speaking
only on the condition of anonymity
One source said the photographs are all of dead
servicemen.
Another official said intelligence personnel are
"working night and day" to glean clues to what
became of U.S. servicemen believed captured or
killed.
If positive identifications are made, families of
the missing men will tie noli Hod first, the officials
suid. President flush is to be briefed on the results
Thursday; then there will he a public announce
ment.
At tile Pentagon, spokesman Bob Hall refused
to comment on the situation except to promise
that, if now information is developed, "wo will
talk fairly quickly with the families to alert them
to the issue."
Another official said the information "may Ik; a
whole new vein” of evidence about those listed
as prisoners of war or missing in action during
that war It could he especially useful In pursuing
the scores of so-called "discrepancy cases," in
which servicemen were last seen or heard from
alive, but in imminent danger of i upturn
"We know it's gmxl, but we won't know how
good until wu run clunk it against whirl we al
ready know , said the official
A Senate source said between 4.000 and 5.000
photos are in tile newly uncovered archives, but
many are duplicates, or different shots of the
same individuals And. he said, "They all deal
with dead people "
The United States had long suspected that such
information, which reportedly includes more
than 4,000 photos, existed in Vietnam Out the
trip over the weekend to Hanoi bv retired (len
John Vessey Jr and Sen Joint McCain, K-Ari/ ,
was die first time its existence lias been officially
acknowledged
Vessey is President Bush's special emissary lor
POW-MIA affairs, and McC.im is a former Viet
nam prisoner of war and a member of the Sen
ate’s Selis t Committee on POW-MIA Affairs
The three-day trip was hastily arranged after
the United States got word that Vietnam was pre
pared to cooperate in turning over material it It.is
previously held buck
In addition to the photos, then- may Ih- other
documentation that could shod light on the l it.- ol
POYVs and MIAs That could ini lude reports ol
aircraft being siiol down, prisoner lists or other
data, the officials said
One official said the information appears In be
the most important breakthrough tit the long
POW-MIA effort in two dot udes
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