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For national security reasons, Sen. John McCain, the presumed Republican nominee for President and Commander in Chief of the United States military must be required to release his medical and POW files.
Presidential candidate John McCain claims his experience as a prisoner of the communists for 5
1/2 years (three of which he spent in solitary
confinement) better qualifies him to be President of the United States. He has forged that experience along with his military record deeply into his campaign.
McCain has admitted that his Vietnamese captors considered him a "special prisoner," the "crown prince" of U.S. POWs, because his father, Adm.
John McCain, was commander of all U.S. forces fighting in Vietnam.
He has admitted that because he was considered such a "special prisoner," he was targeted for intense indoctrination sessions by Vietnamese, Soviet, Chinese and Cuban intelligence agencies operating in U.S. POW camps.
According to McCain, the indoctrination sessions included nonstop brutal beatings and threats to withhold medical attention if he did not cooperate. McCain admits that on his fourth day of captivity, he broke and began cooperating with the communists.
"Demands for military information were
accompanied by threats to terminate my medical treatment if I [McCain] did not cooperate.
Eventually, I gave them my ship's name and squadron number, and confirmed that my target had been the power plant." Pages 193-194, by John McCain.
McCain implies that he collaborated with communist only once while being tortured and that he was so disturbed because he broke that he attempted suicide.
But, declassified U.S. government files show that McCain traded cooperation with the enemy for better treatment, not just once, but at least 32 times spanning about 18 months of the time he was kept isolated from other U.S. POWs.
How much more cooperation did POW McCain give his communist interrogators? How many statements and radio broadcasts did McCain actually make for the enemy? Why is he continuing to demand that his POW records remain classified?
It is incumbent upon McCain to prove to the American people that the 5 1/2 years he spent at the mercy of communist interrogators did not make him mentally unstable.
Does McCain still harbor stress triggered suicidal tendencies?
McCain was once treated for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) which is said to get worse over time for former POWs, what is the status of his treatment?
Does McCain’s former interrogators, the communist Vietnamese, Russians, Chinese and Cubans have anything in their secret intelligence files about his behavior as a prisoner which they could use to blackmail a President John McCain.
McCain must be required to explain why, during a May 1993 meeting with Vietnamese officials in Hanoi, he and former POW Pete Peterson (the U.S.
ambassador to Vietnam) threatened to derail U.S.
normalization of trade and diplomatic relations with Vietnam if "Vietnamese files possession pertaining to American POWs who were released in 1973 were ever made public."
Garnet Bill Bell, special assistant to Gen.
Thomas W. Needham, commander of the Joint Task Force for Full Accounting, was present at that meeting along with several other Americans.
The Vietnamese, according to Bell, agreed to keep the files, which were apparently extensive, confidential but threatened to release their files on former POW Marine Private Robert Garwood if he continued "to say bad things about them and accuse them of holding living American prisoners of war."
McCain must be required to explain why he wants those files kept secret.
McCain was a strong advocate for bringing Bosnian and Yugoslavian war criminals before a war crimes tribunal, but he opposed any kind of war crimes investigations of the Vietnamese. McCain must be required to answer why he is opposed to bringing to justice the Vietnamese torturers known by the American POWs as "the Bug, Slopehead, the Prick, the Soft Soap Fairy, Rabbit, the Cat, Zorba" and many others that were responsible for the murder of at least 55 U.S. POWs and the brutal torture of hundreds of others.
In November 1991, when Tracy Usry, the former chief investigator of the Minority Staff of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, testified before the Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs, he revealed that the Soviets interrogated U.S. prisoners of war in Vietnam.
McCain became outraged, interrupting Usry several times, arguing that "none of the returned U.S.
prisoners of war released by Vietnam were ever interrogated by the Soviets."
Yet, former U.S. POW Laird Gutterson, who was held with McCain, told the that McCain told him the Soviets were involved when McCain needed special medical attention as a result of his shootdown in 1967.
Former KGB Maj. Gen. Oleg Kalugin testified under oath before the 1992 Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs that the KGB interrogated U.S. POWs in Vietnam.
Gen. Kalugin stated that one of the POWs worked on by the KGB was a "high-ranking naval officer,"
who, according to Kalugin, agreed to work with the Soviets upon his repatriation to the United States and has frequently appeared on U.S. television.
Col. Bui Tin, a former Senior Colonel in the North Vietnamese Army, testified on the same day, but after Usry, that because of his high position in the Communist Party during the war, he had the authority to "read all documents and secret telegrams from the politburo" pertaining to American prisoners of war. He said that not only did the Soviets interrogate some American prisoners of war, but that they treated the Americans very badly.
McCain stunned onlookers at the hearing when he rushed forward to the witness table and warmly embraced Col. Bui Tin as if he was a long, lost brother. Why did McCain physically embrace his former interrogator.
McCain must explain, in detail, exactly what contact he had with the former Soviets while he was a prisoner of the communists.
Candidate McCain must answer why he warmly embraced Col. Bui Tin, one of his former interrogators.
During the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs hearings, McCain opposed all efforts by the POW/MIA families and activists to have the Select Committee expand its investigation to study how successful the Vietnamese, Soviet, Chinese and Cuban interrogation apparatuses were at exploiting American prisoners of war . During the Korean War, one out of every three U.S. POWs collaborated.
McCain must answer why he has opposed a U.S.
government study that would determine the success or failure of Vietnamese, Soviet, Chinese and Cuban attempts at exploiting American prisoners of war
For national security reasons, Sen. John McCain, the presumed Republican nominee for President and Commander in Chief of the United States military must be required to release his medical and POW files.
Presidential candidate John McCain claims his experience as a prisoner of the communists for 5
1/2 years (three of which he spent in solitary
confinement) better qualifies him to be President of the United States. He has forged that experience along with his military record deeply into his campaign.
McCain has admitted that his Vietnamese captors considered him a "special prisoner," the "crown prince" of U.S. POWs, because his father, Adm.
John McCain, was commander of all U.S. forces fighting in Vietnam.
He has admitted that because he was considered such a "special prisoner," he was targeted for intense indoctrination sessions by Vietnamese, Soviet, Chinese and Cuban intelligence agencies operating in U.S. POW camps.
According to McCain, the indoctrination sessions included nonstop brutal beatings and threats to withhold medical attention if he did not cooperate. McCain admits that on his fourth day of captivity, he broke and began cooperating with the communists.
"Demands for military information were
accompanied by threats to terminate my medical treatment if I [McCain] did not cooperate.
Eventually, I gave them my ship's name and squadron number, and confirmed that my target had been the power plant." Pages 193-194, by John McCain.
McCain implies that he collaborated with communist only once while being tortured and that he was so disturbed because he broke that he attempted suicide.
But, declassified U.S. government files show that McCain traded cooperation with the enemy for better treatment, not just once, but at least 32 times spanning about 18 months of the time he was kept isolated from other U.S. POWs.
How much more cooperation did POW McCain give his communist interrogators? How many statements and radio broadcasts did McCain actually make for the enemy? Why is he continuing to demand that his POW records remain classified?
It is incumbent upon McCain to prove to the American people that the 5 1/2 years he spent at the mercy of communist interrogators did not make him mentally unstable.
Does McCain still harbor stress triggered suicidal tendencies?
McCain was once treated for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) which is said to get worse over time for former POWs, what is the status of his treatment?
Does McCain’s former interrogators, the communist Vietnamese, Russians, Chinese and Cubans have anything in their secret intelligence files about his behavior as a prisoner which they could use to blackmail a President John McCain.
McCain must be required to explain why, during a May 1993 meeting with Vietnamese officials in Hanoi, he and former POW Pete Peterson (the U.S.
ambassador to Vietnam) threatened to derail U.S.
normalization of trade and diplomatic relations with Vietnam if "Vietnamese files possession pertaining to American POWs who were released in 1973 were ever made public."
Garnet Bill Bell, special assistant to Gen.
Thomas W. Needham, commander of the Joint Task Force for Full Accounting, was present at that meeting along with several other Americans.
The Vietnamese, according to Bell, agreed to keep the files, which were apparently extensive, confidential but threatened to release their files on former POW Marine Private Robert Garwood if he continued "to say bad things about them and accuse them of holding living American prisoners of war."
McCain must be required to explain why he wants those files kept secret.
McCain was a strong advocate for bringing Bosnian and Yugoslavian war criminals before a war crimes tribunal, but he opposed any kind of war crimes investigations of the Vietnamese. McCain must be required to answer why he is opposed to bringing to justice the Vietnamese torturers known by the American POWs as "the Bug, Slopehead, the Prick, the Soft Soap Fairy, Rabbit, the Cat, Zorba" and many others that were responsible for the murder of at least 55 U.S. POWs and the brutal torture of hundreds of others.
In November 1991, when Tracy Usry, the former chief investigator of the Minority Staff of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, testified before the Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs, he revealed that the Soviets interrogated U.S. prisoners of war in Vietnam.
McCain became outraged, interrupting Usry several times, arguing that "none of the returned U.S.
prisoners of war released by Vietnam were ever interrogated by the Soviets."
Yet, former U.S. POW Laird Gutterson, who was held with McCain, told the that McCain told him the Soviets were involved when McCain needed special medical attention as a result of his shootdown in 1967.
Former KGB Maj. Gen. Oleg Kalugin testified under oath before the 1992 Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs that the KGB interrogated U.S. POWs in Vietnam.
Gen. Kalugin stated that one of the POWs worked on by the KGB was a "high-ranking naval officer,"
who, according to Kalugin, agreed to work with the Soviets upon his repatriation to the United States and has frequently appeared on U.S. television.
Col. Bui Tin, a former Senior Colonel in the North Vietnamese Army, testified on the same day, but after Usry, that because of his high position in the Communist Party during the war, he had the authority to "read all documents and secret telegrams from the politburo" pertaining to American prisoners of war. He said that not only did the Soviets interrogate some American prisoners of war, but that they treated the Americans very badly.
McCain stunned onlookers at the hearing when he rushed forward to the witness table and warmly embraced Col. Bui Tin as if he was a long, lost brother. Why did McCain physically embrace his former interrogator.
McCain must explain, in detail, exactly what contact he had with the former Soviets while he was a prisoner of the communists.
Candidate McCain must answer why he warmly embraced Col. Bui Tin, one of his former interrogators.
During the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs hearings, McCain opposed all efforts by the POW/MIA families and activists to have the Select Committee expand its investigation to study how successful the Vietnamese, Soviet, Chinese and Cuban interrogation apparatuses were at exploiting American prisoners of war . During the Korean War, one out of every three U.S. POWs collaborated.
McCain must answer why he has opposed a U.S.
government study that would determine the success or failure of Vietnamese, Soviet, Chinese and Cuban attempts at exploiting American prisoners of war
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