News-Info-Alerts

To: ALL

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

Re: NAF ALERT

Date: November 12, 1998

The following is from the National Alliance of Families:

From: National Alliance of Families
To: All POW/MIA Family Members and Friends

IMMEDIATE ACTION REQUIRED
Nov. 11, 1998

Today's Washington Post reports that Russian Officials confirm the existence of orders to transport American POWs to the former Soviet Union. According to the article, Senator Bob Smith (R-NH), confirmed ". ..he and Toon were told yesterday by Vladimir Semichastny, KGB chief from 1961 to 1967, that the Soviets did have a plan during the Vietnam War to bring American prisoners to the Soviet Union. But Semichastny, Smith said, would go no further than confirming the plan's existence, leaving open the question of whether it was implemented."

Appeals by high ranking US officials, including Secretary of State Albright, for release of the document have been ignored by the Russians.

In an article titled "Yielding to Outcry, Clinton Might Ask Primakov About KGB Document," the Washington Times reported "The White House said yesterday that President Clinton may ask Russian Prime Minister Yevgeni Primakov next week about Moscow's refusal to provide a KGB document mentioning a plan to use captured Americans for intelligence purposes."

The article continued: "However, Mr. Clinton will only broach the subject during next week's scheduled meeting in Malaysia if the Russian government fails to turn over the document during a meeting in Moscow this week of the US-Russian commission on prisoners of war..."

We hope that the Russians will turn over this important document to Senator Smith and Ambassador Toon. However, we must prepare for the worst, that they will not. If the document is not turned over to the commission, we must then depend on the "Might" and "May" of the White House. That is unacceptable.

We must turn the White House "May" and "Might" into "Will" and "Absolutely"

Your voices are needed. We cannot do this alone. Time is short. President Clinton leaves for his meeting with Prime Minister Primakov, on Friday. We must make our voices heard, before he leaves. If the Russians do not turn over the document to the US side of the Joint Commission, the President must ask for it during his meeting scheduled for either Monday or Tuesday.

Make your voices heard. Contact:

The Honorable Bill Clinton
1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
Washington DC 20500
Tel: 202-456-1414
Fax: 202-456-2461
e-mail: president@whitehouse.gov

Mr. Samuel R. Berger, National Security Advisor
National Security Council
1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
Washington DC 20500
Tel: 202-456-9481
Fax: 202-456-9460 OR 202-456-2883

Madeleine K. Albright
Secretary of State
2201 C St. NW
Washington DC 20520
Tel: 202-647-5291
Fax: 202-647-1533 OR 202- 647-7120
e-mail: secretary@state.gov

The Honorable Yuli M. Vorontsov, Ambassador Russian Federation
2650 Wisconsin Ave., NW
Washington DC 20007
Tel: 202-298-5700
Fax: 202-298-5735
e-mail: russ-amb@cerfnet.com