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From: Andi Wolos & Bob Necci

(POW-MIA InterNetwork)

Re: China Agrees to Assist US on POW-MIAs

Date: October 09, 1999

With 8,200 servicemen missing from the Korean War alone, the US has a problem with POW-MIAs and China. Beginning with WW II, the issue of Communist Chinese involvement and US accounting for over 50 years. Now, the US has secured what it believes is a good promise from China to cooperate and participate in a search for thousands of unaccounted-for Americans.

Several US officials trekked to China after the turnover of the B-24 artifacts and remains on 24 September, and look to this event as a beginning. The delegation provided Communist officials with the files and documents on 44 separate POW-MIAs and requested records on the Chinese military units that ran, organized or were responsible for POW camps during the Korean War. The material turned over included names thatwere published in Chinese propaganda materials, shootdowns, crash sites, the DMZ and Chosin Reservoir area.

As a result of the discovery and repatriation of the B-24 crew and thects, the Chinese have created a museum to the recovery effort and billed it as a symbol of US-Chinese friendship and cooperation. It includes images of the crash site, discovery phase, excavation, repatriation and pirces of the craft.