FBI shares ideas with POW/MIA search unit
Stars and Stripes
Pacific edition, Sunday, June 10, 2007
The military unit tasked with locating Òunaccounted-forÓ U.S. servicemembers met with the FBI in Hawaii to improve the way it conducts business.
The Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command meeting was the first time another government agency had come to share methods, Intelligence Directorate director Bob Richeson said in a news release.
Ò[The] deputy commanding officer requested that we take a look at our investigative process,Ó Richeson said. ÒThere are some parallels in the way [the FBI] conduct their investigations.Ó
The meeting was held May 30.
Richeson said the FBI was helpful in areas of case prioritization, evaluating witness credibility and case documentation.
JPAC manages about 13,700 case files for U.S. troops missing from conflicts ranging from World War I to the Korean War.
They send teams to sites worldwide to locate and repatriate the remains of unaccounted-for servicemembers.