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Re: NAF Bits 'N' Pieces
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From: Andi Wolos & Bob Necci
(POW-MIA InterNetwork)
Date: November 23, 2002
"BITS 'N' PIECES
THE NEWSLETTER OF THE
NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF FAMILIES
FOR THE RETURN OF AMERICA'S MISSING SERVICEMEN
+ WORLD WAR II + KOREA + COLD WAR + VIETNAM + GULF WAR +
November 23, 2002
How Do We Say Good-bye To A True Friend - It is always difficult to say good-bye. It is especially difficult when the friend has come to mean so much to us all. Such a friend is Senator Robert "Bob" Smith (R-NH). To say Bob Smith will be missed when he leaves the Senate at the end of this year is an understatement.
Over the years, we could not have asked for a better friend, stronger supporter or stauncher voice for our POW/MIAs, on Capitol Hill, than Senator Bob Smith. All too often, his was the only voice for our Prisoners and Missing. He was never afraid to stand against the majority, when the cause was right and just. Often his support of our Prisoners and Missing, came at the loss of his own political capital. We never heard him discuss the cost of his POW/MIA stance on his political career. All he would ever say regarding his support for our POW/MIAs was . . . it was the right thing to do.
His Senate and Pentagon detractors snidely referred to him as the "POW Senator." It was a tag he wore proudly, because Senator Bob Smith is truly the "POW Senator" speaking out for men whose voices are silenced by distance or death. When Bob Smith spoke about our POW/MIAs it was from his heart because he knows, as we do, that men were left behind at the end of America's wars. He also knows that some of those men may very well be alive today.
His position on the POW/MIA issue was not popular on Capitol Hill. It was even less popular with his Vietnam Veteran Senate colleagues. He didn't care. He knew the right road and he never ever deviated, no matter the cost. That is a true friend.
To paraphrase a well-known song . . . the record shows he took the blows and did it his way!
Senator Smith, how do we thank you for your courage, your years of support, your sacrifices, your dedication to our POW/MIAs and your friendship? How do we say good-bye to someone who has come to mean so much to so many? Well, we won't say good-bye, we can't.
We can only hope that our paths will cross as we fight the good fight....
Senator Smith, we wish you well in your future endeavors and know, as we will never forget you, you will never forget our POW/MIAs and their families.
Speicher's Gonna Get Screwed - The trial balloons are up. The anonymous sources are out in force. Even H. Bruce Franklin, author of MIA - Myth Making In America" has weighed in. "Speicher dead." "Speicher is almost certainly dead." "Survived the ejection but he died afterward." "All the signs... say he's dead." "It has not been resolved, and it may never be." Yep, Speicher gonna get screwed.
The following is from a Nov. 11th The Boston Globe article by Anne E. Kornblut, and Robert Schlesinger - "On the second day of the Gulf War in 1991, Defense Secretary Dick Cheney made a grim announcement. A Navy pilot from Florida, Michael Scott Speicher, had been killed in action when his fighter jet was shot down over Iraq. Eleven years later, after exhaustively combing the little evidence that exists in the case, Speicher's friends and family insist he is still alive. Even his wife, who remarried in 1992, believes her first husband survived the plane crash, according to her lawyer."
"But the saga is more than a POW dispute. As the Bush administration has built its case against Iraq in recent months, Speicher, whose body was never recovered, has suddenly emerged as a controversial symbol of US interests in the region. Without revealing any new evidence, Navy officials took the extraordinary step last month of reclassifying Speicher as "missing/captured," his second status change in less than two years. President Bush, backed up by Cheney, has incorporated Speicher's disappearance into his list of grievances against Saddam Hussein. Earlier this year, Bush raised the possibility that Speicher might be living as a prisoner in Iraq, describing Hussein as someone "who would be so cold and heartless as to hold an American flier for all this period of time without notification to his family."
"Yet many intelligence and military officials assert that Speicher is almost certainly dead, and the administration's critics question its motives for revisiting the case as it plans for another war against Iraq. Skeptics note that 23 other servicemen captured during the Gulf War were released at the end of the conflict; Speicher (pronounced SPY-ker,) who was officially declared missing on Jan. 17, 1991, the day Cheney reported his death, was the only member of the US military to go completely unaccounted for in that battle or any military engagement since."
"All the signs that the military has say he's dead," said Vincent Cannistraro, a former CIA official. A defense official said the case is more ambiguous. "There is a conflict between the evidence that says he's alive and the evidence that says he's not alive," said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
"To critics, the Speicher case is "a pretty blatant example of the cynicism of the Bush administration," said H. Bruce Franklin, author of "MIA or Mythmaking in America." Franklin, a former military intelligence officer, accused the administration of "just rushing around trying to find some cause for war with Iraq that will get some emotional support." Even Speicher advocates find the administration's rhetorical involvement in the case wanting. "I can mention it 50 times in a speech, but if I'm not at the table doing anything about it, it doesn't matter; it's only worse," said Cindy Laquidara, a Jacksonville lawyer representing Speicher's wife, Joanne. "I'm hearing speeches, but I'm not seeing any activity by anybody with a plan to close the issue."
"... Speicher appeared to have escaped his stricken Hornet, but what happened to him afterward remained unknown. "We think he survived the ejection but he died afterward," one US intelligence official said on condition of anonymity. "That's the best guess on our part. But the intelligence community's best guess is as good as anybody else's."
"Other friends and supporters of the Navy pilot argue that he probably survived the ejection and was taken prisoner - an argument bolstered by several eyewitness accounts of varying reliability. In particular, one Iraqi who defected in 1999 has been widely reported to have said that he drove an American flier to a hospital in Baghdad, later identifying the pilot from photographs as Speicher. The defector passed a lie detector test. That account was used by Speicher's supporters in their lobbying campaign to persuade the US government to keep the case alive. Absent evidence he died, many advocates say, he should be presumed alive...."
"But skeptics question the supposed evidence, starting with the defector's tale. "It's like many of the stories about POWs that came out of Vietnam, where people who defected wanted to tell a story that would make them of some value," said Franklin, the author of the POW book..."
Another article from the London Evening Standard, by Jeremy Campbell in Washington and Hugh Dougherty, states: "...Captain Speicher is now at the centre of the biggest mystery in the US military: is he still alive in an Iraqi prison? As a possible war with Iraq looms, many feel the White House is raising hopes he survived in order to drum up public anger against Baghdad."
"...Influential members of Congress managed to have the pilot's status changed to "missing in action", and
last month he was reclassified as "missing/captured", a move widely believed to be ordered by the White
House."
"CIA analysts say the pilot is almost certainly dead, and the case has illustrated the growing fear that George Bush will do anything to promote a war with Iraq."
"Even if he was alive, the now 45-year-old Speicher would have no "home" to return to - his wife married
one of his fellow pilots a year after his crash.
Did We Read That Last Sentence Correctly - Who are these reports to presume Speicher has no home to return to. We resent their statement and we resent the implication that because of that we shouldn't expend the effort to bring him home.
We also resent the implication that there was no reason to change Speicher's status other than to justify war with Iraq. Obviously, these reporters both American and British didn't do their research. Unfortunately, we've come to expect that from certain members of the media.
The Buzz Words Are All There - "Speicher dead." "Speicher is almost certainly dead." "Survived the ejection but he died afterward." "All the signs... say he's dead." "It has not been resolved, and it may never be." Yep, Speicher gonna get screwed.
Tune In - To the History Channel on Tuesday December 10, 2002 at 8:00 PM (check your local listings for the channel in your area.) A one hour segment on POW/MIA Capt. John T. McDonnell, lost March 6, 1969, will air at that time. Regular readers of Bits know that Capt. McDonnell was last seen alive in mid-to-late February of 1973, and he was not alone. To refresh you memory of the McDonnell case visit http://www.nationalalliance.org/mcd/index.htm
POW/MIA Flag Bill Passes - S1226 known as the POW/MIA Flag Bill passed both the Senate and the House this week. The bill is now on its way to the White House for Presidential signature. This legislation requires the POW/MIA Flag be flown 24/7 at our national war memorials in Washington DC.
That means the POW/MIA Flag will now fly at both the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the Korean War Memorial. Upon completion, the flag will also fly at the World War II Memorial.
The National Alliance of Families thanks Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell, for introducing this legislation and his wonderful staff, especially Larry Vigil for their efforts on behalf of the legislation. We also thank our members who made the call and sent the faxes. Thanks for another great job.
Fake or Real - Real or Fake - On October 30th, the Chicago Tribune published a story by Colleen Mastony and Ted Gregory, titled "Vietnam dog tags stir up emotions." The following is excerpted from that article: "Earl Quarterman died in the jungles of Vietnam more than 30 years ago, so this spring when a tourist brought his dog tags back to his mother, it felt like a visit from the past. "I could hardly believe it. It was the best moment of my life. ... It was like bringing my son back home to me," said Sarah Quarterman, 71, who held a prayer service at her South Side home, where family members cried and sang hymns around the old tag."
"It felt like a miracle, except for one hitch: Earl Quarterman's dog tags weren't missing. The government had mailed them to his family shortly after his death in 1967."
"The American government says more GI dog tags are coming back from Vietnam, and most of them are fake, produced for unsuspecting tourists by entrepreneurs who recognize their emotional and monetary value. "We're seeing more of these things coming back with tourists," said Larry Greer, a Defense Department spokesman. "The sad thing is that they are virtually all phony."
"... defense officials say when American troops pulled out of Vietnam, many of the tag-making machines were left behind. Officials say they've gotten dozens of reports of found dog tags all bearing the same name. Earl Smith has been reported more than 40 times, Walter Robinson more than 75 times. Defense officials believe that black-market producers are copying real dog tags or downloading information about veterans from the Internet."
"... Some forgers copy information from abandoned military equipment, Greer said. One reported name, "Johns Manville," is an insulation company that helped build American F-4 Phantom jets.
"It's almost humorous," Greer said. "What's sad is when one of the tags finds its way to a family whose son or husband has been killed. The family could have closed this sad chapter 30 years ago. Then here comes a well-meaning person with another little tidbit from the past. I can only imagine the pain that it causes."
Fake or Real, this article got us to thinking about dog tags found at battle and crash sites. We know the Vietnamese have salted remains and other artifacts at loss sites. Anyone who doubts that should visit http://www.nationalalliance.org/borah.htm
Would it be so hard for the Vietnamese to fake a dog tag and plant it at a site? They have the necessary information, required to fake a dog tag. The U.S. has provided the Vietnamese with all records pertaining to our POW/MIAs and their loss incident.
Specifically, this article brought to mind the dog tag found at the crash site of the Baron 52, downed February 5, 1973. That tag bore the name of Sgt. Joseph A. Matejov. The tag was not discovered during the excavation and recovery operation. It was found during the site survey, several months earlier, laying in plain view. Someone looked down and there it was.
Mary Matejov, Joe's mother, wonders about the tag. She once stated that Joe told her he flew "sanitized," meaning the crew carried no identification media. However, that has never been confirmed. She also wonders about the condition of the tag. It seemed to be in far better condition than a tag that supposedly laid on the jungle floor for over 20 years.
Intelligence reports indicated that four "air pirates" were captured short after Baron 52 when down. The Baron 52 was the only plane downed in all of Southeast Asia on February 5th of 1973. Yet, for years DPMO personnel insisted the intelligence reports related to a South Vietnamese air crew.
Also ignored were the statements of those in the best position to know who got out of that aircraft and who didn't. Those statements came from members of the search and rescue team who examined the site and wreckage on February 9th of 1973, five days after the incident.
In August 1989, members of that team shared their recollections as part of the an Air Force Oral History Program. The full text of that interview may be found at http://www.nationalalliance.org/baron.htm
During that interview the following exchange took place between Chief M/Sgt. Ronald Schofield, a member of the SAR team and Mr. Willard Ellison. Unfortunately, a small portion of the exchange was redacted.
Schofield: We found the aircraft was on its back. We knew it had a full fuel load which accounts for the intensity of fire. All I was there for was to make sure there was no classified still available. When we got there, one of the PJs set up a parameter, and the other one and myself were looking for bodies. We only found three bodies and that was the pilot, the copilot and the third pilot. The backend, even the equipment was burned, and the Colonel (Blau) and I have talked about it. These aircraft flew with the doors on. If that aircraft had crashed with the door on, there would have been a little bit of it left at the top. There was absolutely nothing. It was gone. It looked like it had been kicked off.
Ellerson: Kicked off; You mean ejected? The door had been ejected?
Schofield: Pulled the handle and got rid of it and people bailed out. Because there was about 12 to 14 inches of the aircraft left and where the door was, the top of the door was open. The top of it was not there. But everything else had burned. And also the frontend -- nomex flight suits are good, I learned that -- you could recognize the pilot, copilot and third pilot, and there should have been some remains of the backenders in the fire, but there wasn't anything.
Ellerson: Wasn't the aircraft totally flattened.
Schofield: No sir, it was upside down. But, we found the pilot and copilot right where they should have been, and the third pilot in front of the firewall. There was an area in there where the radios were on one side, and the distribution panel on the other side, and there was a little table in there.
Ellerson: Now, wasn't the backend flat down to the ground when you walked in there?
Schofield: The whole bottom was burned off. The aircraft was inverted and the whole bottom was off. The three bodies were right where they should have been. There should have 'been some remains in the backend, but there was absolutely nothing.
Ellerson: It was upside down. Wasn't the floor on top of those things?
Schofield: It was gone.
Ellerson: It was gone. So it was all burned out.
Schofield: The top of the aircraft was all there was left.
Ellerson: The bottom of the aircraft, which was upside down, was all gone and everything was burned down. There's no possibility in your mind that they could have been cremated?
Schofield: I thought so originally. I've had this on my mind for a long time because, whatever I said, had a direct impact on the decisions made. No, I've given it a lot of thought and I've talked to the Colonel (Blau) about that, and the absence of the top of the door,: the intel report about the four fliers, shock, which indicates that they'd been suffering from burns, which they probably would have. We had another interesting phenomenon. DATA
I brought this up and they said, "No, that's happened before."; But I had five years in Southeast Asia, 4 1/2 on flying status, and never have I seen them just DATA
They were very cautious because they could screw up pretty bad. And they were very amateurish out there. They had very little training and whenever they DATA
DATA
DATA And I felt in my own mind that they had, in fact, been captured and had been interrogated."
Real or Fake - DPMO representative Larry Greer, when referring to the fake dog tags stated "I can only imagine the pain that it causes."
Imagine the pain inflicted on a family, when intelligence reports indicating their son had bailed out of his stricken aircraft. Imagine learning of these reports, some 5 years later, not from your government, but from Jack Anderson during a segment of Good Morning America. Imagine learning these intelligence reports discuss the "capture of 4 air pirates," plans to move them to Hanoi and even a request for a truck to transport the POWs because their captors were having difficulty moving them. Imagine government officials insisting that all this intelligence reporting referred to a South Vietnamese air crew lost in the general area. Keep in mind that in spite of a certain former DPMO employee's insistence, no other air crew South Vietnamese, or American was lost on February 5th 1973 in all of Southeast Asia.
In spite of all this, Joseph A. Matejov is considered remains returned, and identified. Imagine the pain, knowing that no remains were ever recovered for Joe Matejov, returned for Joe Matejov or identified as Joe Matejov. Imagine knowing that should a live sighting report cross the desk of a DPMO employee naming Joe Matejov or any other POW/MIA accounted for by the creative methods employed to reduce the number of missing, that report will be dismissed. It will be dismissed because Joe Matejov is considered identified.
Real or Fake - we don't know if the Matejov dog tag is real or fake. We do find it hard to believe it laid, undisturbed, on the jungle floor for over 20 years. We have no difficulty believing the Vietnamese may have planted the dog tag, bearing Matejov's name. We also find it interesting that in spite of the fact that the remains of three crewmen were known to be in the aircraft, the only item individually identifiable at that crash site was the Matejov dog tag. The 1&Mac218;2 of one tooth supposedly identified as belonging to Peter Cressman was the only individually identifiable remains, to come from the crash site.
For years, both the Matejov and Cressman families took very vocal and public stances, challenging the U.S. Government to provide answers as to what really happened to the back-enders of Baron 52. It is interesting that
of the eight men on Baron 52, the only items found supposedly belonged to Matejov and Cressman.
Real or Fake, it's not the dog tags that cause the pain.
Why Does Johnnie Webb Still Have A Job?????????
Did Charles Robert Jenkins Defect - DPMO says flat out - yes. The evidence proves it. Yet, no one has ever seen the evidence, not even the Jenkins family. So, on the guilt of Charles Jenkins, we are supposed to take DPMO's word. NOT! Their history does not allow us to simply accept their word.
The National Alliance of Families believes no determination of Jenkins status should be made until he is questioned on neutral ground, with his family safe. He may have deserted but in this country we have a Constitution. That Constitution states a man is innocent until proven guilty. That is a right DPMO has not afforded to Jenkins.
We do know that the North Koreans had a plan in place to kidnap U.S. servicemen. The same intelligence report speaks of the kidnaping of a South Korean Patrol. We also know that the North Koreans kidnaped Japanese citizens to train their spies, in their version of the Charm School (for an excellent read pick up "The Charm School" by Nelson Demille) Wouldn't the North Koreans want Americans also?
If you are to believe DPMO the North Koreans didn't kidnap Americans. If you believe DPMO, no one ever wanted Americans, not the Soviets, the Chinese, the North Koreans, the Vietnamese and not the Iraqi's.
They wanted everyone else, the Japanese, the Germans, the South Koreans, the Brits, the French, the Iranians and the Kuwaities but no one ever wanted Americans.
Do you find it as had to believe as we do, that in the hot and cold wars of the 1940's, 50's, 60's 70's, 80's, and 90's that no one ever wanted Americans. That no one was interested in them for abilities ranging from teaching english to high tech engineering. Do you find that as hard to believe as we do.
There is another very important aspect of the Jenkins case. Having spent 37 years in North Korea, Jenkins could have information on other Americans and we don't mean deserters. Jenkins could have information on POWs. It is a longshot, but it is possible.
The Japanese government has asked the U.S. government to pardon Jenkins or at least promise not to request extradition should Jenkins join his wife in Japan. The Pentagon has taken a hard line in this case. Certainly, it is a harder line than they have taken with other Vietnam era deserters.
We DO NOT support leniency for deserters. However, there is a bigger issue here. Jenkins COULD have information on American POWs.
So here is your chance to play Secretary of Defense. Would you agree not to extradite Jenkins from Japan in on the gamble that 1) he might have information on American POWs and 2) we could learn if he really deserted or was kidnaped. Let us know what you think.
Mail comments to lynn@nationalalliance.org
Word From Japan - The story of the Japanese citizens abducted by the North Koreans is huge in Japan. The Japanese are equally interested in the fact that one of the kidnap victims is married to Charles Jenkins. We have been contacted by many members of the Japanese media and American media based in Japan, Hong Kong and Seoul South Korea.
One of our media contacts forwarded us an interview with Jenkins published in the Japanese Magazine "Weekly Friday" The note accompanying the article is as interesting as the article itself.
"Dolores, Here is a translation of the article. I hope that it is useful to you. It seems pretty clear to me that Mr. Jenkin's was spoon fed exactly what to say. I really doubt that he could say, "Oh, yeah. I was abducted, too."
The following is excerpted from the "Weekly Friday" interview with Charles Jenkins published November 15th.
Q: What was your motive for marrying Soga-san?
A: I was alone in North Korea without family or relatives. We felt sorry for each other. From 1972 until 1980 I taught English at the National University. I also appeared as a minor actor in several films.
Q: Why did you come to North Korea?
A: I don't want to talk about it. I can say one thing: I walked into North Korea.
Q: The Stars and Stripes, a prominent military newspaper says there is absolutely no possibility of you being pardoned.
A: I was in the Army but refused to go to Vietnam when I was ordered to do so. I have no interest in military matters now. However after three years, the statue of limitations will run. A friend joked to me, "you will be free after three years," but actually I have been free for the last thirty-seven years."
[Note: we know of no statute of limitation on desertion. If there is one, please let us know at lynn@nationalalliance.org
What The Family Says - The following was written by James Hyman, nephew of Charles Jenkins, on behalf of the Jenkins family.
"On a January 5, 1965, Sgt. Charles Robert Jenkins who was on a military assignment with 3 other men on the DMZ line in South Korea went missing. Records show he asked his men to stay behind while he went to check out something. Three weeks later Pyongyang announced over the loud speaker that "Sgt. Jenkins had defected to a better life in North Korea."
The US military then advised there had been a letter left in his footlocker stating "Dear mother, Forgive me for I know what I must do. Tell my family I love them." Then signed, "Love Charles." It wasn't until the early 1980s that the military located Sgt. Jenkins in propaganda pamphlets and in a movie called "Unknown Heroes."
In 1996 the US Army confirmed that Sgt. Charles Robert Jenkins was alive and living in North Korea. Now in late September of 2002 another twist has come to light. Hitomi Soga who was kidnapped by the North Korean government in 1978 from Japan at the age of 19 was located and scheduled for a return visit to Japan in October. The twist was that she was married to Robert Jenkins, The man the US Army claimed was a defector and had two children by him. They were married in 1980 in North Korea.
I am James K. Hyman, the nephew of Robert Jenkins. The side of the story that you first read is accurate to my knowledge according to the US and numerous articles from Japan. Since October, I have had interviews or talked to Fuji TV, TV Asahi, NHK - Japanese Broadcasting, and The Weekly Post in Japan. I am now in the process of requesting all military records and copies of the letters left (I state letters due to the fact it was reported as one letter and has increased to four letters) from the US Army.
My family has several questions. We were never shown the supposed letter nor to our knowledge has authenticity been made in regard to the supposed letter. Why has the Government already labeled him as a defector when they have had no personal contact with him? Why was the family never sent a copy of the letter? Why was the purported letter to his family signed "love Charles," when his family called him Robert? And why was he not entered into the National Crime Information Center as a deserter until 02-26-1982? The biggest question is why did the government allow our family live for almost 38 years not knowing if he was dead or alive?
I spent 15 years in the military myself. I joined the same unit as my uncle in Scotland Neck in 1978. In the early 80s I tried to find out some answers about by uncle and received a call from an Army Official to "Leave it alone."
Robert joined the Army in 1955 so he was not a new enlist, nor was he drafted against his will. He wore the uniform proudly for ten years. Our family, having been kept in the dark concerning his situation and knowing Robert's personal stance of the military have a major problem with the US Army calling him a defector. Our country has a system of justice that one is innocent until proven guilty. Why has this not happened in this case? How many other families are out there that has missing loved ones that have been forgotten by the US government?
The North Korean Government kidnapped Japanese citizens to train North Korean's language and customs. This was also done in the early 50's with American personnel. How do we know this was not the case here? As to the fact that he was seen in North Korea propaganda, this may have been his only source of survival since he was left there for 12+ years being forgotten by his own government.
Some have written that the family just has wishful thinking. But the facts not given has made this a fact, not just wishful thinking! The door has been opened for answers to be available to the US government and our family, and we will not rest until we get answers! Not only is Robert in North Korea, but several other sightings of Caucasian men has been noted working in North Korean fields.
Who's forgotten family member's are these men. Robert could be the key to unlocking a lot of questions on other POW/MIA's. If this is possible, then the opportunity should be made to find out the answers. One of our major contributors of information is The National Alliance of Families of POW/MIA's. They have been very supportive and without them a lot of our research could have taken a lot longer. I believe 38 years is quite long enough. The United States stands for Liberty and Justice for all, and that is exactly what we are seeking. Being proud citizens of America we deserve to find out and be given the opportunity to let this come to a closure.
Thank You,
James K. Hyman & Family
We, at the National Alliance of Families,
wish you all a very
Happy Chanukah
May your holidays, be filled with love and joy.
As we remember those absent
and pray for their return,
let us also give thanks for those present,
who support us in our daily struggle.
Dolores, Lynn and the Board of Directors of the National Alliance of Families.
Contact us here!
DOLORES ALFOND -
National Chairperson (dolores@nationalalliance.org)
425-881-1499
LYNN O'SHEA -
Director of Research (lynn@nationalalliance.org)
718-846-4350"
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