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From: Andi Wolos & Bob Necci
(POW-MIA InterNetwork)

Re: US Heaps Praise on Vietnamese 'MIA' Efforts

Date: November 04, 1998

DPMO or the Deceptive Missing People's Office as it has been called, has stated that the Vietnamese cooperation on 'missing' Americans this past ten years has been just peachy.

Deputy ASD, Bob Jones, said,"We are very happy with the results we have achieved," and then "It's a very emotional issue, something that's very close to the hearts of the American people."

Guess it's a 'don't expect much and then you won't be disappointed when you don't get it' situation.

According to AP reports, 200 'alleged' live sightings have yielded nothing. That the LKA cases have 'shrunk' from 196 to 43, "with 35 sets of remains returned and enough information to determine that the others were dead.'

Of the 2,078 'official' unaccounted-for, 1,549 are in Vietnam, who is doing a 'superb' job.

In an evident caveat, Jones was reported to say that 'he was not willing to rule out that a POW might emerge someday.' "There is always hope that there is a live American somewhere," he said, pointing to recent cases in which an American veteran returned from North Korea after living there since the Korean War and Japanese POWs were freed from a Russian gulag, according to AP.

Too little, too late.