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From: Bob Necci & Carol Hrdlicka, Andi Wolos
(POW-MIA FaxNetwork)

Re: Here We Go Again

Date: July 14, 1997

Deja vu. While Madeleine Albright hugged and kissed her way through the Czech and Polish Republics... while Bill Clinton embraced them into NATO... Bob Smith and Malcolm Toon skittered off to Czechoslovakia, Poland and Russia for discussions on POW-MIAs. Interesting timing. Here we have two of the most senior people in government doing the warm, fuzzy thing, and then, almost as an afterthought, the US-Russia Joint Commission turns up on the doorstep.

We hear that during the Czech leg of the trip, the US side was presented with 3 photos of of Korean War American POWs, and given a 'promise' of cooperation. The US SHOULD have made accountability a prerequisite for membership in NATO. Now with their new status guaranteed, there is no inducement for the Czech Republic or Poland to account for anything. The same thing was done two weeks ago with the North Korea talks and the Commission's announcement that there was 'no creidble evidence' of US POWs being transferred to the USSR from Korea. This is so reminiscent of the US scripting for Communist North Vietnam and Russia a couple of years back.