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From: Andi Wolos & Bob Necci
(POW-MIA InterNetwork)
Re: Statistics As Of June 2001
Date: July 06, 2001
From the NLF -
The years in which these 14 first hand sightings occurred is listed below:
Statistics provided by the Defense POW/MIA Office
Live Sightings: As of June 5, 2001, 1,910 first-hand live sighting reports in Indochina have been received since 1975; 1,896 (99.27%) have been resolved. 1,318 (69.01%) were equated to Americans now accounted for (i.e. returned POWs, missionaries or civilians detained for violating Vietnamese codes); 45 (2.36%) correlated to wartime sightings of military personnel or pre-1975 sightings of civilians still unaccounted for; 533 (27.91%) were determined to be fabrications. 14 (.72%) unresolved first-hand reports are the focus of current analytical and collection efforts: 13 (.68%) are reports of Americans sighted in a prisoner situation; 1 (.05%) are non-POW sightings.
Year
Pre-76
76-80
81-85
86-90
91-92
93-94
95-96
97-01
Total
13
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
14
Accountability: : At the end of the Vietnam War, there were 2,585 unaccounted for American prisoners, missing in action or killed in action/body not recovered. As of June 5, 2001, 1,973 Americans are still missing and unaccounted for, over 90% of them in Vietnam or in areas of Laos and Cambodia where Vietnamese forces operated during the war. A breakdown of the years during which the 612* Americans were accounted for follows:
1965-1974
War years: (recently identified)
1
1974-1975
Post war years:
28
1976-1978
US/SRV normalization negotiations:
47
1979-1980
US/SRV talks break down:
1
1981-1984
1st Reagan Administration
23
1985-1988
2nd Reagan Administration
155
1989-1992
Bush Administration
111
1993-1996
1st Clinton Administration
202
1997-
2nd Clinton Administration
43
Vietnam
444*
Laos
150*
China
2
Cambodia
16
*4 remains were recovered from indigenous personnel; 1 from North Vietnam and 3 from Laos; in addition, one person identified was actually recovered in Vietnam before the end of the war.
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