Pentagon Officials Told Russians ‘No Evidence’ U.S. Korean War POWs Taken to Soviet Union
Experts: Closed-door comments undermine decades of research
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KOREAN WAR
Troops of the First U.S. Cavalry Division land ashore at Pohang on the east coast of Korea on July 19, 1950 during the Korean War / AP
BY: Morgan Chalfant
November 14, 2016 5:00 am
Pentagon officials leading efforts to recover missing American service members told their Russian counterparts in May there is no evidence that U.S. prisoners of the Korean War were brought into the Soviet Union, dismissing intelligence reports and eyewitness testimony compiled over the last two decades.
American officials made the claim during a May meeting of the U.S.-Russia Joint Commission on POW/MIAs, and experts say it could undermine the Defense Department’s efforts to recover further information about the more than 7,800 military personnel still unaccounted for from the Korean War of the 1950s.
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/pentagon-officials-told-russians-no-evidence-u-s-korean-war-pows-taken-soviet-union/
