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

Re: Americans Murdered In Cambodia

Date: June 25, 1997

In his book, The Bamboo Cage, Nigel Cawthorne writes;

"The MIA roster did not close with the end of the war. South-East Asia has continued to swallow people up as if they had never existed.

At least two Australians and four Americans went missing while sailing in the Gulf of Siam. It was assumed that their boats had sunk and they had drowned - until January, 1979, when the Vietnamese entered Phnom Penh. It seems that these men had been forced into port by Khmer Rouge gunboats. They had been taken to the Tuol Sleng prison in the, then, deserted Phnom Penh. When the Vietnamese entered Phnom Penh, they searched the prison and found photographs of westerners, including women, who had clearly been tortured. Records show that they had been tortured almost daily until they confessed to being CIA agents. They were killed shortly before the Vietanmese arrived."

AII POW-MIA writes - A number of scholars and researchers have long claimed that Americans were horribly tortured and then murdered at Tuol Sleng, and that evidence of this existed. Very recent news reports have stated that four Americans, captured in two separate boating incidents, (presumably those about whom Cawthorne wrote) were murdered in Tuol Sleng in 1978. Those four Americans are -

James Clark

Lance McNamara

Michael Deeds

Christopher Lance