RUSSIAN GENERAL CONFIRMS HOLDING AMERICAN POWS IN SOVIET HOSPITAL DURING KOREAN WAR
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- September 12, 1995
- From Bob Necci: VOICE - (316) 967-9057: FAX - (516) 244-70917
The September/October 1994 issue of Conservative Review magazine ran a ten page article by Dr. Joe Douglass detailing the mistreatment of American POWs during World War II, Korea and the Vietnam wars by the Soviet Union. The article told of American prisoners held in a Soviet run hospital in North Korea during that war. Eighteen Czech and twenty Soviet doctors experimented on our men using radioactive isotopes. When the Korcan War ended some 100 of these American POWs were shipped to the Soviet Union for further experimentation with CBW weapons. In fact one GULAG they might have been sent to was Wrangel Island in Siberia, where Raoul Wallenberg was sighted in 1962. This GULAG was reported to be one carrying on further experiments of this nature. Photos of one of these GULAGS on Wrangel Island have become available and can be obtained from State Department Watch by calling (703) 241-3700.
On August 30, 1995, in a press conference in Moscow, former political general, now historian and friend of Boris Yeltsin, Dmitry Volkogonov, admitted that Soviet authorities had in fact held American fliers in a Soviet hospital during the Korean War. Up till now, the Russians have denied holding any American POWs in the Soviet Union during or after the Korean War. During the same press conference, Volkogonov also mentioned 147 Russian prisoners of the Afghans, still reported to be alive. As is well known, the United States Government has been assisting Russia in attempting to recover these men.
Now that a highly placed Russian has admitted that our men were taken from North Korea to the Soviet Union and not returned to us, what are U.S. authorities waiting for???? The information is readily available for them to press the case with Moscow.
At the very least we ought to have the graves of these men located and their families ought to be given the option to have their remains returned to the United States for proper burial. If we do not act, the question arises as to why we are going to permit the Russians to get away with these wartime atrocities?? There also remains the question of other American POWs imprisoned in the Soviet Union after World War II and during the Vietnam War. Persons in a position of responsibility at that time should be asked to explain their lack of activity on behalf of our fighting men!
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