National Security Committee - Military Personnel Subcommittee

June 1995 through September 1996

POW-MIA Hearings - September 17, 1996 List of Witnesses
POW-MIA Hearings - September 17, 1996 Description and Documents
Hearings - September 17, 1996 Statement of Robert K. Dornan
Hearings - September 17, 1996 Statement of Colonel Phillip Corso
Hearings - September 17, 1996 Statement of Jan Sejna
POW-MIA Hearings - September 17, 1996 Statement of Dr. Joseph Douglass
Hearings - September 17, 1996 Statement of Commander William {Chip} Beck, USNR
Hearings - September 17, 1996 Statement of George J. Veith
Hearings - September 17, 1996 Statement of Garnett E. Bell
Hearings - September 10, 1996 Statement of Chairman Robert K. Dornan
Hearings - September 10, 1996 Statement of Michael D. Benge, Ex-POW
Hearings - September 10, 1996 Statement of Lawrence J. Stark, Ex-POW
Hearings - September 10, 1996 Statement of Carol Hrdlicka
Wife of COL David L. Hrdlicka - POW - Laos
Hearings - September 10, 1996 Statement of Donna Downes Knox Korean/Cold War Family Association of the Missing
Hearings - September 10, 1996 Statement of J. Thomas Burch, Jr. Chairman National Vietnam Veterans Coalition, Inc.
Hearings - June 20, 1996 Statement of David G. Brown Director, Office of Korean Affairs Department of State
Hearings - June 19, 1996 Statement of George J. Veith
Hearings - June 19, 1996 Statement of Kent H. Wiedemann
Hearings - June 19, 1996 Statement of Jo Anne Shirley - National League of Families of Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia
Hearings - December 14, 1995 Opening Remarks of Robert K. Dornan, Chairman
Hearings - December 14, 1995 Statement of Kathy Borah Duez Sister of LT Daniel V. Borah, Jr.,USN, MIA in South Vietnam 9/24/74
Hearings - June 28, 1995 Statement of Michael Janich, Analyst, Linguist and Insider
Hearings - June 28, 1995 Statement of Ann Mills Griffiths Executive Director, National League of POW/MIA Families
Hearings - June 28, 1995 Statement of Dolores Apodaca Alfond National Chairperson, National Alliance of Families
Hearings - June 28, 1995 Statement of Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (POW/MIA Affais) James W. Wold
Hearings - June 28, 1995 Statement of Brigadier General Charles A. Viale, Commander - Joint Task Force-Full Accounting
Hearings - June 28, 1995 Statement of Colleen C. Shine Daughter, LTC Anthony C. Shine, USAF - MIA 12/2/1972
Hearings - June 28, 1995 Testimony Extracts

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The
MILPERSUB
Hearings

This hearing is a continuation of the Congressional oversight process to account for our servicemen still missing in Southeast Asia that I have initiated as Chairman of this Subcommittee. This hearing follows a long night of debate on the Administration's decision to send U.S. ground forces into the frozen hell of Bosnia, where we have already had one American MIA, Scott O'Grady recovered. In addition, two U.S. servicemen were wounded on a secret mission to rescue the two French POWs, Captain Frederic Chiffot and Lt. Jose Souvginet.

During the ordeal of the French POW/MIAs, who like O'Grady and so many POW/MIAs in Southeast Asia were written off as "dead" by American Intelligence, I could not help but compare the agony of their families to the ordeal still being experienced by American wives and family members such as Carol Hrdlicka and Kathy Borah Duez who will testify here today. The sacrifices of the wounded American pilots and troops during the "secret war" for freedom against the North Vietnamese in Laos. The fate of those captured by Communist forces is known only to God and the Vietnamese Communists and their Pathet Lao surrogates. We must not give any further economic aid or political recognition to those criminal regimes until they unilaterally and truthfully resolve the cases of heroes such as my best friend David Hrdlicka, whose fates are known only by God and the Communists who captured or killed them.
Robert K. Dornan
Chairman, Military Personnel Subcommittee
December 14th, 1995"