Stage3Alpha Q&A Monday Evening - Part 1 of 3

Stage3Alpha Q&A Monday Evening -  Part 1 of 3

9/29/2014

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STAGE3ALPHA LIVE Q & A CHAT WITH EXO, RENE, CARDEN, SUNSHINE62 & INCOGNITO

AGOGHG  Ok...so what is the real scoop with the 800 #'s...are they a trap?

Sunshine62 > AGOGHG The 800#s will certainly be a beautiful way to notify what is called Dinarland.  From these, you will be able to make an appointment with an exchange center (or bank)...and all will be done in an orderly fashion.We have never considered 800# to be a trap.

LVegas If we are given an 800#, are we then consider calling from a group? As sure the general public does not get these 800#'s. Do we need 800#'s for VND's, or when see Santa Suit, go to the bank?

Incognito > LVegas Dinarland is considered a group. If you have a 800 number, you are in the Dinarland group.
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Jana What is the latest info on the ZIM, is it in or out , 6 or 9?

Incognito > Jana  The ZIM is still in and it cannot be lopped more than 6 zeros per law

Sunshine62 > Jana The last we heard, the ZIM is in the basket with a 6 zero lop.

Keep your eye on this currency however.  Be sure you receive the correct rate/zeros lopped when you go to exchange.

MrT So in the past, we discussed on a conference call exchanging into other currencies at the time of exchange. As per conversations with Sterling, at least with those that you can talk to, they said that they would only exchange into USD. As per your knowledge, do you believe that by going to WF, we will be able to exchange directly into an MCA?

EXOGEN > MrT You do not EXCHANGE into an MCA account. An MCA account is for portfolio diversification and leverage. Currency can be parked into an MCA and NOT exchanged. This is a leveraged hedge against USD devaluation , but interestingly the USD is increasing in value. The MCA accounts at many banks are now only on the Wealth side of the bank

Sunshine62 > MrT It is indeed true that if you exchange with Sterling, they will only exchange into the USD....You will need to locate a bank that handles those accounts, as not all do have them.

T.O.T Millionday posted that Kurds where competing for and now have been given 4 seats.  Was this a delay for the announcement?

EXOGEN > T.O.T That is part of the plan. Keep in mind Kurdistan has all of the oil and the USA is opening up 3 military bases and the weapons are safe and secure in Kurdistan. Remember they have to have a government that represents all of the people

Kenpoist79 How should a multi currency account be setup?

Rene > Kenpoist79 Please check with your bank -- each bank has different specifications.  Ask YOUR banker the DIFFERENCE for YOU between Multi and Multiple currency accounts.  Ask for the reason why each account would be beneficial for you.

LVegas I do not own a lot of VND's, so want to make sure I get the best rates possible. Will I be able to get a contract rate? Would I need to sign an NDA? And do I have to leave a percentage in the bank (WF)?

EXOGEN > LVegas Keep in mind that banks are in the business of making money. At this point there are no definitive answers like will I do this or that as there are no rules. You have to structure your plan based on what you need to NET, not base it on RATES.
Sunshine62 > LVegas This is certainly a great question!  You will absolutely take your time to read the contract to see what your bank is using as a stipulation for giving you that rate.  I am sure it will vary.  We do not know at this time, if that would mean leaving a percentage in the bank.

FD Do you think rates will come out high and go down or reverse? Exchange some and wait for later?

Rene > FD Waiting would not be a great idea.  Remember,  there could be a chance of NEW currency and the currency in your hands 'could' become obsolete.  (We have NO idea when!  Market will drive rates,  but also remember--the GCR is for parity between ALL the worlds' currencies.  Don't let GREED ruin it for you.

Kenpoist79 How should a multi currency account be setup?

EXOGEN > Kenpoist79  Understand the difference in the 2 accounts.

1. Multi Currency Account

2. Multiple Currency Account

Each of these work differently

Condor Is October 1st a drop-dead back wall date for Iraq? Have heard this mentioned. What's your opinion, if you don't mind? Thanks !!!!

Sunshine62 > Condor Condor, we are quickly approaching that date and I would not be at all concerned should we NOT meet that.  There may be 1 or 2 loose ends they are tying up for OUR benefit (such as the banking side for instance). I only use that as an example as we do not forsee anything at this moment.

 Janet > Question...at time of exchange...can we take our foreign currency and with that buy other foreign currency... there fore avoiding taxes? Thanks...

Incognito > Janet No, it would be exchanged into USD.

Sylvia    Does anyone know anything about the generals64 group?

Rene > Sylvia  We understand it is now called The WF Group.  You will get an email with some notification of what to do......that is what we know at this time.

Sylvia   Rene will they be one of the groups to go first?

Sunshine62 > Sylvia I'm not Rene, but questions are coming fast and furious so we are grabbing them as fast as we can.  It was first thought the WF group would be "first" but at this point and time, we are not sure....

pebbles Thanks everyone for what you are doing, my question is will the CBI put the international rate up on Oct 1 so everyone can see it.

Sunshine62 > pebbles We highly doubt that.  There has always been the knowledge there are 2 sites, and there may be a time lapse before we see the new site actually show the international rate.

Steph:  What is the best way to find a great tax attorney? A team of advisers? If the system is truly changing, then how do we know if the  professionals will be knowledgeable on the new system?

EXOGEN > steph There are online resources you can use and make sure you have your list of Interview Questions structured and already know the answers you are looking for before you ask the questions

Sunshine62 > steph Great questions.  Personally, I would think it would come in the way of referrals from people you know and trust and already have a reputable team they are using....ASK questions!  Take your time and use only people you feel comfortable with.  Find out their track record from clients they already have.

efren  Based on your opinion rene and exo what date you think the rv will come to exchange to the banks?

Rene > efren we are hoping as soon as possible!!!!  How about YOU???

BlueEyedGoddess Is it even remotely possible that this is all an elaborate scheme to sell currency that is never going to be worth more than we paid for it, making only the currency dealers wealthy?

EXOGEN > BlueEyedGoddess  NO

Osso Exo what are the chances of an RV in the next 48hrs?

EXOGEN > Osso We are looking for this to happen sooner than later

Edward are you ever going to do a live conference call with intel?

EXOGEN > Edward yes

Sunshine62 > Edward Not the same type of call that you are hearing from the other gurus.  At this time, the next conference call will be immediately after you see the full santa suit here on this site indicating that it is time to go to the banks

AJM0603 Hello Exo & Mods: are you still hearing a 6 zero lop on the Zim?
Also, do you think in your gut that this RV will be announced no later than Oct 1st?
Thks!

EXOGEN > AJM0603 Yes we are hearing 6 zero lop on the ZIM. October 1st we are looking for a number of things.

1. Bills to be paid

2. Approved Budget

3. The process of salaries in motion

4. LIVE RATE

Note: Keep in mind the CBI is an Independent body like the Federal Reserve

Link to PART 2

PART 2

Springs Is there any confirmed groups cashing out right now?

Rene > Springs not to our knowledge

Philip is there a problem putting money in the banks knowing that they have a derrative problem

Sunshine62 > Philip I would certainly give that some long, hard consideration!  Why not move it into a bank that has no or low derivatives so that your money is safe?

LVegas Do we know yet if #1) have to pay fee to the bank to do our exchange? #2) Pay a Capital Gains tax, whether short-term or long-term? #3) Pay high Federal Tax on our exchange? And rumor was out there all we had was a possible 14% exchange fee/exchange tax and that was it.

Sunshine62 > LVegas #1.  Depends on the rate/contract you accept and what may be attached to that.

#2.  Do not know, be sure to consult a tax attorney immediately after exchange

#3.  That is still a rumor

jumping4joy can you explain the wealth side of banking

Sunshine62 > jumping4joy There is the public side (tellers) and the wealth side and Private side of the bank. 

You definately want to build a relationship with the wealth managers and private bankers in your bank as each may be able to assist you.

They are also accustomed to dealing with wealthy clients and what is required for accounts, perks, etc. etc.

Mark Everyone speaks of WF Bank... What about other banks to exchange...How about BBVA Compass????
Will different banks offer different rates??
How would the bank know that we are part of the S3A group??

EXOGEN > Mark You need to interview your banks based on things like derivatives exposure, products and services, rating and rankings

Margaret Hello everyone….I'm so glad to get a response from my question.
What do you think the VNDONG will reval at, do you assume or know if
this will actually take place at the same time as the Dinar reval.
Now that all the smoke and mirrors has been exposed, why are we still playing this waiting game?

Sunshine62 > Margaret The Dinar and Dong will reval at the same time.  We are hearing rates as high as 2+ but we will not ever be sure until we actually see the live rates.

Adanais Do you expect American and Canadian Banks to exchange at the same time?

Incognito > Adanais Each country will strategize and come up with the best plan for their banks and people.

Bold n Courageous Will the Zim be just as exchangeable as the dong and dinar at the exchange centers or could there be complications?

Sunshine62 > Bold n Courageous We are hearing that WF will be exchanging the ZIM, and possibly Chase.  There will not be complications at all...and it is even possible that all the BIG4 will exchange the ZIM.

tweetabird do you think that the report in the Gazette regarding rate being $3.58 is real?

Carden > tweetabird The "Gazette blog" is already in question. The debate continues...

steph I know there is much misinformation out there. How much do we need to worry about the USD devaluing? I know I want to do a MCA, but how do I know what currencies to do? I want stable currencies. US will not be home base 100% of the time.

Rene > steph There will be other choices, (EXO has showed you many on the site). please note we are NOT investment professionals so it is best to do your homework and be conservative until the financial reforms shake out.

steph > Rene SYes I understand you are not investment professionals :) and thank you for all you do. So we shouldn't be concerned about a collapse immediately and just take our time to invest wisely? Again, it's hard because it's hard to know what is out there to scare us and what is out there that is truth. It isn't like we have anything to reflect on. Thank you again!

Carden > steph GLOBAL CURRENCY REFORMATION HAS NEVER BEEN DONE BEFORE.... that's why every answer anyone gives anywhere can change in a second. the only "REAL SOLID INTEL" will come once the GCR/RV finally occurs and the rules are made known.

Jana Can we use foreign banks that have branches here in the US to do exchanges at?

Sunshine62 > Jana Not all banks will be exchanging the dinar dong, zim, and rupiah.  This is why we suggest NOT calling the banks (as most banks are saying NO we are NOT)....and with the 800# you will be directed to banks who are participating in this currency exchange.

gum leaf Is it important at exchange to say VNN or VND?

Rene > gum leaf We hear it is important,  you have that knowledge -- might as well use it!

gg4 When it comes to paying off my bills, is it best to get cashiers checks made out to each payee requiring the checks to be mailed or can I just get a lump sum check amount to deposit into my regular household checking acct and pay my bills the way I normally have via online banking. Is there a paper trail needed or do I need to keep my checks under 10K. Thank you for your time and effort.

Sunshine62 > gg4 It seems to be that would be your preference, and also the manner in which you want to pay off your creditors....We highly discourage having a huge amount in the account you are using online banking so please consider that as well.  Keep you online account as a "working account" and not a "holding account"    You would not have to keep your checks under 10K..

J. L. Glover Is it true that the people who I gave 1,000, 10,000 & 25,000 notes (& gift letter) ONLY get the street or international rate? NO chance of a contract rate?Do they need to call the 1-800 # or can they just walk into any bank with their one or two notes?

Sunshine62 > J. L. GloverNo, they are free to exchange at whatever rate they desire, just like you. THey may also use the 800#....this is more advisable than just walking into a bank as you will not be using the public side of the bank, and neither will they. (as in tellers)

Edward does October 1,have a big significance to this event?

Incognito > Edward October 1 is the beginning of the fiscal year for most countries

Adanais Is publishing the rate in the Official Iraki Gazette means that we could go to the bank and ask for exchange at that rate?

Sunshine62 > That is certainly not OUR signal at all.  We are looking for live rates from different directions and the Official Iraqi Gazette, is just that - for Iraq only.

Robert L.  How soon after RV do we go to the bank for Dong?    Still hearing 2 plus for rate?

Incognito > Robert You will exchange all currencies at the same time

EXOGEN > Robert Should take place simultaneously, unless other plan executed

Ron Burgundy Can the USA be bypassed?   Can they keep a US citizen from exchanging?

EXOGEN > Ron Burgundy Yes the USA can be bypassed.Yes there are ways to block rates from showing in the USA

dinardiva EXO-- Something great happened yesterday that brought us closer can you tell us what that was?

EXOGEN > dinardiva The World Bank did what they needed to do

Olewiseone > EXOGEN GREAT! What did they do???

EXOGEN > Olewiseone executed

Link to PART 3

PART 3

Carden > Sem, this question is beating the drum. WHAT ABOUT THE TRN'S? When will the projects start to be funded? Has anyone been paid on their historic bonds that you know? Have you seen USN listed on any public currency trading forums? I haven't.

Chances are good that you'll know when the TRNs are viable (I'm not even saying "live" because we know they are!) along with the rest of us immediately! Maybe TONIGHT.

J Star   Here is my question.  The IQN and the VNN have the potential for a contract rate from the one of the chosen Big Five Banks.  The ZIM and the IDR has no contract, Can you exchange the ZIM and the IDR any bank or foreign exchange center at any time during the exchange process. And also can the ZIM and the IDR accounts intermingle.  Thank you : )

Sunshine62 > J Star You may exchange the Zim and IDR at any exchange center that accepts those 2 currencies...WF is going to accept them.  The reason the Dinar was to be kept in a separate account was the taxation was to be different on that currency.  I see no reason why you cannot intermingle the other currencies.

Sem > EXOGEN PLEASE DISCUSS THE TRN/USN

Sonny:  Exo: Any chance that exchanging with a dealer will cost us higher tax rates since the currency is not going to the UST but rather directly back to the CBI ?

Sunshine62 > Sonny Not a chance.  Your tax rate will be the tax rate even even you exchange with the dealer.  That was a good thought tho, I liked it!

FD Do you think world bank having done their part is the final step (granted US does not stop it )?

EXOGEN > FD It was a CRITCAL step

john Will there be a cap on currencies how much we can exchange per currency?

Sunshine62 > john We believe the cap will be on the HIGH CONTRACT RATES, not how much you can exchange per currency.

Ron Burgundy Exo has stated that there is a Plan A, Plan B and Plan C all running simultaneously. Please explain these three plans?\

Sunshine62 > Ron Burgundy The Plan A is the one we have planned for all along, and of course the BEST of plans!  This is the one we want.Plan B is if the BRICs decide they will no longer wait on the USA and will "go around us"  At this moment in time, we believe that GOOD WILL PREVAIL and PLAN C.....we have a long, long way to go there.

Janie > Sunshine62 yay! Thank you. I'm still curious to know how ugly Plan C is.... LOL

John Weis > Ron Burgundy   Just a guess, Plan C is a mixture of A and B.

Kudu70 What happened in Texas banks this past weekend?  More Friends and Family exchanging?  Gov't employees exchanging?

EXOGEN > Kudu70 Wealth Managers meeting with private clients

Louis :  Can the RV BE delayed at this time?

EXOGEN > Louis Yes it can be delayed, however many obstacles have now been removed

EXOGEN > Understand there are NO RULES

Kudu70   Are you planning a call this week?

Carden > Kudu70   YEP!

Janie   with 5 minutes left - what the bleep is Plan C?

EXOGEN > Janie Global Contingency plan to make sure the right thing is done and USA citizens complete exchanges

Edward do you think the extreme upward movement upward of the us dollar is a major indicator of this blessing happening

EXOGEN > Edward If you divide the number 1 by the current IQD program exchange rate you will find an interesting number

Rick W > EXOGEN 1/1166 =.0008576???

Sunshine62 > Edward In our opinion, it is a VERY EXCITING indicator.  We are watching it almost minute to minute.

MJSeeker if I get reserves and contract rates are no longer available when I can get them, can I choose to deposit vnn and iqn directly into mca then take that currency to invest in respective country's markets to avoid tax at that time.  this bypasses exchange I think

Carden > MJSeeker This question and so many more will be answered completely once the final D DAY arrives. Many have this question.

MJSeeker what does the the dragon family's gold have to do with gcr.  are they issuing bonds to help level playing field for those countries without enough resources?

Carden > MJSeeker GOOGLE, GLOBAL COLLATERAL DEBT ACCOUNTS. That will answer this question fully.

Steven why can we say the NESARA will be Anounced After the GCR ? what tax implications will it have on all global currency After the exchange since it takes away the IRS and THe Federal reserve system ? it also states 14% tax on New Items . no more taxes or capital gain taxes?

Carden > Steven  Sounds good to me! Looking forward to the happy Event!

FD I am going to ask for several cashiers check to cover mortgage and deposit in two or three other banks and separate accounts, will that be ok or should I open no interest account in same bank deposit there and go in another day for the cashier's checks Will they lock the account? Not planning on contract rate.

Sunshine62 > FD There has always been the advice to put your dinar into a NIB account, (at time of exchange).  However, as you start to move your money around to different accounts, (and even different banks)  the best advice would be from your personal banker as to which kinds of accounts to open so suit your needs. ....I see no reason why they would lock your account.

LoveChild If you have an established llc and you have chosen the way it is taxed can you then change it to be taxed as a C corp?

Sunshine62 > LoveChild Best advice would be from your attorney on this question, or your investment advisor.

MMullen Hello. Do you feel zim will come out good value? if so, can you give ball park guess?

Sunshine62 > MMullen We have heard .11 rate and a 6 zero lop.

Incognito > MMullen ZIM will be a very pleasant surprise

Mac Exo and staff do you think the USA or Obama can do anything to continue and hold this up?

EXOGEN > Mac That is a NO BRAINER question. YES.That is why there are now Plans A,B, & C all running simultaneously

Sem Whether this helps or not:   I have interest in a Historical Bond and the platform where there is a DP and 40 week payout says the banks/platform was given the green light to start the payout to us tomorrow.  We will see but, it falls in line with the whole 1st date.  I also have dinar/dong and have an associate in the Reno group and they were given a backwall date of Friday  where they will start.

I know the Bond is not the dinar but, I have learned this whole process is connected in some form.

Anyway, maybe this information eases some fears.

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AJM0603 > Hello Sem I am involved with Historical Bonds where the Hong Kong Platform (sanctioned by the IMF) but we cannot begin trading yet till RV takes place and TRN/USN are live on bank screens. Just so you have my 2 cents worth.

However, we are ANXIOUSLY awaiting the RV to kickstart everything tonight or tomorrow hopefully.

Kudu70 THANKS EXO AND INTEL TEAM!!!!!!

Mr. Chen thanks Exo, Rene, Incognito, Carden, and Sunshine for answering all of our questions, you guys are the best!!!

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US Senate Report on POW/MIAs: Proof of Betrayal, Abandonment & Treason

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No man left behind? The United States Senate Subcommittee Report on Prisoners of War documents with irrefutable evidence that American POWs were knowingly left behind by the federal government in communist prison camps at the end of World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Indochina and the Gulf War, all with the full knowledge and approval of every sitting president at that time and every president thereafter.

"Readers will find in this report something which has never before been attempted: An historical analysis of the fate of U.S. POW/MIAs." — Senator Jesse Helms, Ranking Member of the Minority Staff of the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, as quoted in An Examination of U.S. Policy Toward POW/MIAs, May 23, 1991.

"I will never leave a fallen comrade to fall into the hands of the enemy..." — An excerpt from the Ranger Creed, developed by Army Chief of Staff General Creighton Abrams who, in the midst of the Vietnam War in 1974, created battalions called Rangers, elite infantry soldiers derived from the Rogers' Rangers of the French and Indian War.

"Because none were left behind according to Washington, none are obviously there, so why bother looking?" — Colonel Robert Miller, America's Abandoned Sons, (Xlibris Corporation Publishers, June 19, 2012), Chapter 4, p. 134.

"Military men are 'dumb, stupid animals to be used' as pawns for foreign policy." — Henry Kissinger in an address to Alexander Haig, former United States Army General and Secretary of State (1981-1982), as quoted in The Final Days by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, (Simon & Schuster, 2005), Chapter 14, pp. 194-195.

"Everyone is Expendable." — Colonel Millard A. Peck, United States Army, Chief of the Special Office for Prisoners of War and Missing in Action (POW/MIA), in his request memorandum to resign his position on February 12, 1991.
Please send this to everyone you know with a loved one's name on a wall who was "officially" declared a prisoner of war or missing in action.

BACKGROUND

Senator Jesse Alexander Helms, Jr. (R-NC) was a leader of the conservative movement and the longest-serving popularly elected Senator in North Carolina's history. Helms was the most stridently conservative politician of the post-1960s era, especially in opposition to federal intervention into what he considered state affairs, and the Almanac of American Politics once wrote that "no American politician is more controversial, beloved in some quarters and hated in others, than Jesse Helms."

As long-time chairman of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he demanded a staunchly anti-communist foreign policy that would reward America's friends abroad, and punish its enemies.

However, as ranking member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Senator Helms discovered during the examination of U.S. policy toward POW/MIAs that our government had been knowingly leaving our sons behind in the hands of those communists that he had so ardently fought against. He wrote about the on-going investigation of the issue, saying that "It was not, and was never intended to be, a search for specific POW/MIAs." But rather, Helms continued in his report, "it was an attempt to ascertain whether the agencies of the U.S. government responsible for POW/MIAs were doing the job they were supposed to do—that is, to find any POW/MIAs who might still be alive."

An Examination of U.S. Policy Toward POW/MIAs
By the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations Republican Staff 

Prepared by the Minority Staff of the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations 

Thursday, May 23, 1991 

Senator Jesse Helms of North Carolina, Ranking Member 

James P. Lucier, Staff Director to the Minority; Tracy E. Usry, Chief Investigator; Daniel B. Perrin, Project Editor and Writer; Gregory Stanko, Layout and Production; Nancy Ray, Production Assistant 

The Minority Staff also wishes to thank Kris Kolesnik, of Senator Grassley's staff, and Dino Carluccio, of Senator Smith's staff, for their cooperation and encouragement. 

United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
Washington, D.C. 20510-6225 

May 23, 1991

The following are notable excerpts from the document:

From the Prologue Part I 

Throughout this century, the United States, as a nation, has anguished over the plight of American prisoners of war, both known and missing. The emotional ordeal of the families, the debt which the nation owes to those who have put their lives on the line for their countries, and the human dignity of each and every single soldier, or sailor, or airman ought to have an incalculable bearing on our national policies and our honor. 

On the record, the U.S. government has professed to give these concerns "the highest national priority." Off the record, this priority vanishes. Instead, other considerations emerge: Grand visions of a foreign policy of peace and reconciliation; desire for a new economic order of trade and investment; ideological imperatives to down play the hostility of antagonistic systems; and the natural tendency of the bureaucracy to eliminate its workload by filing cases marked 'closed' instead of finding the people. 

[In October 1990], the Minority Staff published an Interim Report based on hundreds of interviews and reviews of raw intelligence data in DOD files. The Interim Report suggested that DOD was more interested in manipulating and managing the issue than in finding living POWs listed as missing. But as the investigation proceeded, the weight of evidence of failure—a failure of the U.S. Government to meet its sacred trust—became overpowering. 

Was it really possible that officials in the Executive Branch charged with the solution of POW/MIA issues could have failed so miserably to respond to the needs of the American people? Was it simply that the emotions of the POW/MIA-concerned community were making objective appraisal of DOD's work impossible? 

The resignation of the director of DOD Special Office for POW/MIA Matters, Col. Millard A. Peck, submitted on February 12, but made public only last month, offered unexpected and extraordinary support for the findings of the Interim Report. (Col. Peck's resignation will be treated in detail later in this report.) But the question remained: Was it credible that such a failure could occur? To answer that question, it was necessary to turn to history.

From the Overview 

The interim conclusions are very disturbing. After examining hundreds of documents relating to the raw intelligence, and interviewing many families and friends of POW/MIAs, the Minority Staff concluded that, despite public pronouncements to the contrary, the real, internal policy of the U.S. government was to act upon the presumption that all MIAs were dead. 

As a result, the minority Staff found, any evidence that suggested an MIA might be alive was uniformly and arbitrarily rejected... 

On February 12th of 1990 the Chief of the Special Office for Prisoners of War and Missing in Action (POW/MIA) resigned. "Colonel Millard A. Peck," wrote Helms, "a man who had accepted the position with high motives and a sense of deep dedication, felt that he could no longer fulfill the demands of duty, honor, and integrity under the policies which he was asked to implement." 

In a detailed and forthright letter, which did not become public until May, Colonel Peck confirmed that a "cover-up" has been in progress. He spoke of a "mindset to debunk." He said that there was no effort to pursue "live sightings." He stated that "any soldier left in Vietnam, even inadvertently, was, in fact, abandoned years ago." Lastly, he criticized the U.S. government's treatment of the families and friends of the POW/MIAs. 

The fact that Colonel Peck's conclusions were so similar to the conclusions of the Minority staff is a matter of regret, rather than a vindication. I had hoped that the Minority Staff investigators would be able to alter their preliminary findings, because the implications of a deliberate effort by the U.S. government to deceive the American people is a matter that all of us would prefer to believe unthinkable. 

Helms wrote that as the Minority Staff pursued its investigations, it became clear that the U.S. experience with the Vietnam POW/MIAs is not unique in history. 

Echoes of similar experiences in dealing with other, and earlier Communist regimes on the subject of POW/MIAs came up with increasing frequency. 

Readers will find in this report something which has never before been attempted: An historical analysis of the fate of U.S. POW/MIAs in the hands of the Bolshevik regime after World War I, the Soviet regime after World War II, the North Korean regime after the Korean War, and the Vietnamese regime after the Vietnam War. 

In each case, the same dismaying scenario appears: On the Communist side, the regimes denied holding U.S. prisoners, contrary to credible reports, while in fact they were holding the U.S. POW/MIAs as slave laborers and as reserve bargaining chips to get diplomatic recognition and financial assistance. On the U.S. side, our government downplayed or denied the report of POW/MIAs, and failed to take adequate steps to prove or disprove the reports, while elements in our government pursue policies intended to make diplomatic recognition and financial support of the revolutionary regimes possible.

Senator Helms concludes his overview with:

"This report has required many hundreds of hours of work, not only from the Minority Staff, but from many dedicated persons who shared their experiences and research with the Minority Staff," and that "more time and more resources need to be devoted to the work."

World War I

"An administrative determination has been placed on each of their records, that they were killed in action on the date they were reported missing." — Memorandum, To: Acting Chief of Staff, G-2, Subject: Alleged confinement of American Officers and Soldiers in Russian prisons, November 12, 1930

In other words, all of the men who were MIA were determined to be KIA-BNR [killed in action, body not recovered] on the date they were reported missing.

"...the Soviet bloc and the Chinese Communists are holding in their jails and slave camps many foreigners, including soldiers, and civilians, women and children... according to State Department figures, the total number of Americans held by the Soviets and their European satellites exceeds 5,000 . . . Many of these Americans, like many Europeans, were residents in the iron curtain countries caught by the Communist tide; others were deported from German war prisoner camps; some, like Cox were simply kidnapped." — The Other Russians, The New York Times, January 5, 1954

"HUNDREDS WERE MISSING FROM OUR RANKS"

It is difficult to accept the official U.S. accounting of U.S. casualties of the 1918-1919 Northern Russian Expedition, particularly because all men who were MIA were officially determined to be KIA-BNR on the date they were reported as missing.

"Negotiations for the exchange of prisoners have been terminated by orders from General Pershing." — Telegram No. 221,To: Military Intelligence, From: Archangel, U.S. War Department, April 14, 1919

In fact, the Bolsheviks wanted diplomatic recognition in return for the release of Allied POWs; at the suggestion of the U.S. Secretary of State, the U.S. Secretary of War reminded the U.S. Military Attache at Archangel of this fact in a May 12, 1919 letter: "the United States has not recognized the Bolshevik regime as a government either de facto or de jure."

The negotiations never resumed.

World War II

World War II was a great military victory for the United States Armed Forces. In both the European and the Pacific theaters, the enemy unconditionally surrendered. However, despite the total victory in Europe by Allied Forces, thousands and thousands of U.S. soldiers—perhaps as many as 20,000—were never repatriated from prisoner of war (POW) camps, prisons and forced labor and concentration camps.

These American soldiers were being held in Nazi prison camps, along with other Allied POWs and some Nazi captives, when they were overrun by the Red Army. Thus, hundreds of thousands of Allied POWs who had been held by the Nazis, as well as millions of Western European citizens, or Displaced Persons, came under Red Army control. Indeed, this number increased because General Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, decided to stop the U.S. and British drive eastward into Germany, in order to wait for the Soviet forces driving West, so that the U.S. and Soviet forces could meet in Berlin.

"In the matter of evacuation of American ex-prisoners of war from Poland I have been informed that the approval from General Deane to survey the United States prisoners of war situation in Poland has been withdrawn. You stated in your last message to me that there was no need to accede to my request that American aircraft be allowed to carry supplies to Poland and to evacuate the sick. I have information that I consider positive and reliable that there are still a considerable number of sick and injured Americans in hospitals in Poland and also that there have been, certainly up to the last few days and possibly still are, large numbers of other liberated American prisoners either at Soviet assembly points or wandering about in small groups not in contact with Soviet authorities looking for American contact officers. I cannot, in all frankness, understand your reluctance to permit American contact officers, with the necessary means, to assist their own people in this matter. This Government has done everything to meet each of your requests. I now request you meet mine in this particular matter. Please call Ambassador Harriman to explain to you in detail my desires." — Personal and Secret Cable, From President Roosevelt, To: Marshal [Joseph] Stalin, March 18, 1945
On May 30, 1945, General Kenner, Eisenhower's Surgeon General at SHAEF Headquarters, received a memorandum on the subject "Displaced Persons, Allied ex-PW and German PW." The Kenner memorandum stated 20,000 Americans remained under Red Army control. Major General Deane requested information from the Assistant Chief of the Red Army in Moscow about over 15,500 Americans the Soviets were believed to be holding in a letter dated May 31, 1945. Therefore, it is difficult to reconcile these facts with a cable signed by Eisenhower on June 1, 1945, which read:

"It is now estimated that only small numbers of U.S. prisoners of war still remain in Russian hands. These no doubt are scattered singly and in small groups as no information is available of any large numbers in specific camps. They are being received now only in small driblets and being reported as received. Everything possible is being done to recover U.S. personnel and to render accurate and prompt reports thereon to the War Department." — Cable, To: AGWAR, From: SHAEF FORWARD, SIGNED EISENHOWER, REF. No. FWD-23059, June 1, 1945

The claim of the second Eisenhower cable that "only small numbers of U.S. prisoners of war still remain in Russian hands" and that these "no doubt are scattered singly and in small groups as no information is available of any large numbers in specific camps," directly contradicts the information in the Kenner memorandum which states, a mere 48 hours earlier, that 20,000 U.S. POWs were still being held by the Red Army. Furthermore, it directly contradicts the information in General Deane's letter dated the day before that "information which indicates that 15,597 United States liberated prisoners of war are now under control of Marshal Tolbukhin." Given the contents of Major General Deane's TOP SECRET letter, and given the contents of the Kenner memorandum, the Eisenhower cable of June 1 appears to be an attempt to gloss over a serious problem.

The conclusion is that even a rudimentary assessment of the Allies' own figures suggests that some 12,500 Americans were never repatriated from Red Army controlled territory.

Korean War

U.S. government documents state that nearly one thousand known captive U.S. POWs—and an undetermined number of some 8,000 U.S.MIAs—were not repatriated at the end of the Korean War.

"Figures show that the total number of MIAs, PLUS KNOWN CAPTIVES, LESS those to be US repatriated, leaves a BALANCE of 8,000 unaccounted for." — Report, U.N. Combined Command for Reconnaissance Activity Korea, (CCRAK). CCRAK SPECIFIC REQUEST Number 66-53

Vietnam War

In 1973, the Vietnamese used POWs in an attempt to blackmail the United States into providing nearly $5 billion in so-called "reparations." Both the United States and Vietnam asserted in that year that "OPERATION HOMECOMING" was bringing home all known prisoners. The Vietnamese believed that they had a deal—a dirty deal, to be sure, in which prisoners would be exchanged for cold cash. It was a deal brokered by Secretary of State Henry Kissinger via a secret hand-carried letter. It would be perfectly consistent with the historical Communist policy to hold back prisoners against their will, and even the remains of the dead, to exchange for dollars at a later date. The evidence of this investigation, therefore, must be weighed against the probabilities of the historical background.

Most of this information is not well-known by the American public; however, all of it is based on open-source material, including official U.S. Government documents that have been declassified and collected from official agencies through Freedom of Information Act requests and through research from the National Archives, Washington, D.C. 

"U.S. sources believe that a substantial number of the missing [in Laos]—perhaps as many as 100—still may be alive. The conclusions are based on inspections of crash sites by search teams and on intelligence reports." — United Press International dispatch, Vientiane, Laos, March 25, 1973

Two weeks into this stalemate over the repatriation of U.S. POWs held by Pathet Lao, between the Pathet Lao and the North Vietnamese on one side, and the United States on the other, the United States announced that, "There are no more prisoners in Southeast Asia. They are all dead." — Statement issued by the Department of Defense, Washington, D.C., April 13, 1973

Furthermore, one news report quoted a United States government spokesman, who stated, "Rumors that there were hundreds of U.S. Servicemen held in Laotian prison camps, does the families [of the missing] a disservice." — United Press International dispatch, Washington, D.C., April 14, 1973

These statements were made notwithstanding the eighty men cited by Henry Kissinger held by the North Vietnamese, and notwithstanding the fact the no U.S. POWs held by Pathet Lao forces have ever been repatriated. Clearly, both of the above United States Government statements were demonstrably false; they were designed—one can only speculate—to persuade the media that information with regard to prisoners still alive in Southeast Asia had no foundation whatsoever, and furthermore, only compounded the emotional anxiety of anxious and grieving family members.

The fact of the matter is that the Pathet Lao publicly admitted to holding U.S. POWs in Laos, yet the U.S. government abandoned any attempt to bring them back home.

For Vietnam, the U.S. Government has at least 1,400 [live-sighting] reports, including reports that have been received in 1991; indeed, even, one is told, in the past few weeks. In addition, the U.S. Government has received thousands and thousands of second-hand reports—accounts often full of vivid detail, such as "my brother told me he saw 11 American POWs being transported in a truck at such and such a place."

Yet amazingly, the U.S. Government has not judged a single one of these thousands of reports to be credible. Instead, the policy enunciated by an official statement of the U.S. Government in 1973 was that there was "no evidence that there were any more POWs still alive in all of Indochina." In spite of 1,400 unresolved reports of first-hand live-sightings, the Department of Defense, remarkably, still believes it has "no evidence." How does it dismiss these reports?

Gulf War

It should be noted that "missing," under U.S. Army regulations, is quite distinct from MIA. "Missing" is reserved from personnel unaccounted for in non-combat operations. From the Army's point of view, the convoy [Heavy Equipment Transport] was a non-combat operation, even though it was under heavy enemy fire. SPC Melissa Rathbun-Nealy and SPC David Lockett "were never listed as MIA or POW, even though the Army had information that they had been captured under fire. This distinction is an important illustration of how DOD uses technical distinctions to avoid a finding of POW/MIA.

In a letter to Mr. and Mrs. Leo Rathbun, Lt. Colonel J.G. Cole, Chief POW/MIA Affairs, demonstrates how DOD, even in real-time cases, fails to follow up obvious leads or to ask obvious questions.

The case of SPC Rathbun-Nealy and SPC Lockett is a vivid illustration to keep in mind when considering the bureaucratic mindset that refuses to go outside of artificial restrictions in order to find real people. If the case had been prolonged, if the report had come months or even years later, if the vivid memories of the event had gathered dust in DOD files, the same facts would have been true.

Covert Black Operations

Numerous government documents available under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), documents in public archives, and published works, most of the extensive covert military operations throughout Southeast Asia between 1955 and 1975 remain classified. As a result, DOD's list of U.S. personnel lost while on covert or "black" military operations in Southeast Asia (i.e., Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, North Vietnam, South Vietnam, Burma, and the southern provinces of the People's Republic of China) is highly suspect.

As a result, this precludes a presentation of evidence that the lists of POW/MIA and KIA-BNR from Southeast Asia are skewed as a result of withholding of casualty counts from black operations. But the continued effort by the U.S. government to keep records of these operations classified, or to withhold information related to these operations under FOIA exemptions tends to indicate information on U.S. casualties related to these activities may not be accurate. An early 1970's Senate hearing on military operations on Southeast Asia was given classified information on losses from classified operations in Southeast Asia, but that information remains classified and is not included in this report.

Needless to say, the covert nature of classified operations has to remain secure even when personnel involved disappear. According to sources interviewed for this report, if an individual on a covert military of intelligence operation is lost—becomes an unrecovered casualty, i.e. either captured or KIA-BNR [killed in action, body not recovered]—he might be declared dead immediately.

Epilogue / Colonel Peck's Resignation

Date: 12-Feb-1991 memorandum ATTENTION : POW/MIA U-0173/POW/MIASUBJ: REQUEST FOR RELIEFTO: DR

1.  PURPOSE:  I hereby, request to resign my position as the Chief of the Special Office for Prisoners of War and Missing in Action. (POW/MIA)

2.  BACKGROUND

1. Motivation. My initial acceptance of this posting was based upon two primary motives: first, I had heard that the job was highly contentious and extremely frustrating, that no one would volunteer for it because of its complex political nature. This, of course, made it appear challenging. Secondly, since the end of the Vietnam War, I had heard the persistent rumors of American Servicemen having been abandoned in Indochina, and that the Government was conducting a "cover-up" so as not to be embarrassed. I was curious about this and thought that serving as the Chief of POW-MIA would be an opportunity to satisfy my own interest and help clear the Government's name.
2. The Office's reputation. It was interesting that previous exposure to the POW-MIA Office, while assigned to the DIA [Defense Intelligence Agency], both as a Deputy Director for Intelligence (DDI) and as the Chief Of the Asia Division for Current Intelligence (JSI-3) was negative. DIA personnel who worked for me, when dealing with or mentioning the office, always spoke about it in deprecating tones, alluding to the fact that any report which found its way there would quickly disappear into a "black hole."
3. General Attitudes. Additionally, surveys of active duty military personnel indicated that a high percentage (83%) believed that there were still live American prisoners in Vietnam. This idea was further promulgated in a number of legitimate veterans' periodicals and professional journals, as well as the media in general, which held that where there was so much smoke there must be fire.
4. Cover up. The dark side of the issue was particularly unsettling because of the persistent rumors and innuendos of a Government conspiracy, alleging that U.S. military personnel had been left behind to the victorious communist governments in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, and that for "political reasons" or running the risk of a second Vietnam War, their existence was officially denied. Worse yet was the implication that DIA's Special Office for POWs and MIAs was an integral part of this effort to cover the entire affair up so as not to embarrass the Government nor the Defense Establishment.
5. The Crusade. As a Vietnam veteran with a certain amount of experience in Indochina, I was interested in the entire POW-MIA question, and willingly volunteered for the job, viewing it as a sort of holy crusade.
6. The Harsh Reality. Heading up the Office has not been pleasant. My plan was to be totally honest and forthcoming on the entire issue and aggressively pursue innovative actions and concepts to clear up the live sighting business, thereby refurbishing the image and honor of the DIA. I became painfully aware, however, that I was not really in charge of my own office, but was merely a figurehead or whipping boy for a larger and totally Machiavellian group of players outside of DIA. What I witnessed during my tenure as the cardboard cut-out "Chief" of the POW/MIA could be euphemistically labeled as disillusioning.

3.  CURRENT IMPRESSIONS, BASED ON MY EXPERIENCE

1. Highest National Priority. That National leaders continue to address the prisoner of war and missing in action issue as the "highest national priority" is a travesty. From my vantage point, I observed that the principal government players were interested primarily in conducting a "damage limitation exercise" and appeared to knowingly and deliberately generate an endless succession of manufactured crises and "busy work." Progress consisted in frenetic activity, with little substance and no real results.
2. The Mindset to Debunk. The mindset to "debunk" is alive and well. It is held at all levels, and continues to pervade the POW-MIA Office, which is not necessarily the fault of the DIA. Practically all analysis is directed to finding fault with the source. Rarely has there been any effective, active follow through on any of the sightings, nor is there a responsive "action arm" to routinely and aggressively pursue leads. The latter was a moot point, anyway, since the Office was continuously buried in an avalanche of "ad hoc" taskings from every quarter, all of which required an immediate response. It was impossible to plan ahead or prioritize courses of action. Any real effort to pursue live sighting reports or exercise initiative was diminished by the plethora of "busy work" projects directed by higher authority outside DIA. A number of these grandiose endeavors bordered on the ridiculous—quite significantly—there was never an audit trail. None of these taskings was ever requested formally. There was, and still is, a refusal by any of the players to follow normal intelligence channels in dealing with the POW/MIA office.
3. Duty, Honor, Integrity. It appears that the entire issue is being manipulated by unscrupulous people in the Government, or associated with the Government. Some are using the issue for personal or political advantage and others use if as a forum to perform and feel important, or worse. The sad fact, however, is that this issue is being controlled and a cover up may be in progress. The entire charade does not appear to be an honest effort and may never have been.
4. POW/MIA Officers Abandoned. When I assessed the office for the first time, I was somewhat amazed and greatly disturbed by the fact that I was the only military officer in an organization of more than 40 people. Since combatants of all Services were lost in Vietnam, I would have thought there would at least be a token service representation for a matter of the "highest National priority". Since the normal mix of officers from all services is not found in my organization it would appear that the issue, at least at the working level, has, in fact, been abandoned. Also, the horror stories of the succession of military officers at the 0-5 and 0-6 level who have in some manner "rocked the boat" and quickly come to grief at the hands of the Government policy makers who direct the issue, lead one to the conclusion that we are all quite expendable, so by extrapolation one simply concludes that these same bureaucrats would "sacrifice" anyone who was troublesome or contentious—including prisoners of war and missing in action. Not a comforting thought. Any military officer expected to survive in this environment would have to be myopic, an accomplished sycophant, or totally insouciant.
5. The DIA Involvement. DIA's role in the affair is truly unfortunate. The overall Agency, has generally practiced a "damage limitation drill" on the issue, as well. The POW/MIA Office has been cloistered for all practical purposes and left to its own fortunes. The POW office is the lowest level in the Government "effort" to resolve the issue, and oddly for an intelligence organization, has become the "lighting rod" for the entire establishment on the matter. The policy people manipulating the affair have maintained their distance and remained hidden in the shadows, while using the Office as "toxic waste dump" to bury the whole "mess" out of sight and mind in a facility with limited access to public scrutiny. Whatever happens in the issue, DIA takes the blame, while the real players remain invisible. The fact that the POW/MIA Office is always the center of an investigation is of no surprise. Many people suspect that something is rotten about the whole thing, but cannot find an audit trail to ascribe blame, so they attack the DIA/POW/MIA "dump", simply because it has been placed in the line of fire as a cheap, expendable decoy.
6. "Suppressio Veri Suggesto Falsi." Many of the puppet masters play a confusing murky role. For instance, the Director of the National League of Families occupies an interesting and questionable position in the whole process. Although assiduously "churning" the account to give a tawdry illusion of progress, she is adamantly opposed to any initiative to actually get to the heart of the problem, and, more importantly, interferes in or actively sabotages POW-MIA analyses or investigations. She insists on rewriting or editing all significant documents produced by the Office, inserting her own twist or meaning to what was originally prepared. This is then touted as the DIA position. She apparently has access to top secret, codeword message traffic, for which she is supposedly not cleared, and she receives it well ahead of the DIA intelligence analysts. Her influence in "jerking around" everyone and everything involved in the issue goes far beyond the "war and MIA protester gone straight" scenario. She was brought from the "outside" into the center of the imbroglio, and then, cloaked in a mantel of sanctimony, routinely impedes real progress and insidiously "muddles up" the issue. One wonders who she really is and where she came from. . .

4.  CONCLUSIONS

1. The Stalled Crusade. Unfortunately, what began on such a high note never succeeded in embarking. In some respects, however, I have managed to satisfy some of my curiosity.
2. Everyone is Expendable. I have seen firsthand how ready and willing the policy people are to sacrifice or "abandon" anyone who might be perceived as a political liability. It is quick and facile, and can be easily covered.
3. High-Level Knavery. I feel strongly that this issue is being manipulated and controlled at a higher level, not with the goal of resolving it, but more to obfuscate the question of live prisoners, and give the illusion of progress through hyperactivity.
4. "Smoke and Mirrors." From what I have witnessed, it appears that any soldier left in Vietnam, even inadvertently, was, in fact, abandoned years ago, and that the farce that is being played is no more than political legerdemain done with "smoke and mirrors", to stall the issue until it dies a natural death.
5. National League of Families. I am convinced that the Director of this organization is much more than meets the eye. As the principal actor in the grand show, she is in the perfect position to clamor for "progress", while really intentionally impeding the effort. And, there are numerous examples of this. Otherwise, it is inconceivable that so many bureaucrats in the "system" would instantaneously do her bidding and humor her every whim.
6. DIA's Dilemma. Although greatly saddened by the role ascribed to the Defense Intelligence Agency, I feel, at least, that I am dealing with honest men and women who are generally powerless to make the system work. My appeal and attempt to amend this role perhaps never had a chance. We, all, were subject to control. I particularly salute the personnel in the POW-MIA Office for their long suffering, which I regrettable was unable to change. I feel that the Agency and the Office are being used as the "fall guys" or "patsies" to cover the tricks of others.

5.  RECOMMENDATIONS

1. One Final Vietnam Casualty. So ends the war and my last grand crusade, like it did actually did end, I guess. However, as they say in the Legion, "je ne regrette rein..." For all of the above, I respectfully request to be relieved of my duties as Chief of the Special Office for Prisoners of War and Missing in Action.
2. A Farewell to Arms. So as to avoid the annoyance of being shipped off to some remote corner, out of sight and out of the way, in my own "bamboo cage" of silence somewhere, I further request that the Defense Intelligence Agency, which I have attempted to serve loyally and with honor, assist me in being retired immediately from active military service.

Signed Millard A. Peck
Colonel, Infantry USA

Further Research

How many people in America know that 19% of our casualties from World War II are still missing today? That's 78,000 people, not a statistic. How many people know that 25,000 of them were POWs held in German prison camps captured by the Russians and then shipped off to Stalin's work camps and were worked to death? How many Americans know that thousands of Korean and Vietnam War POWs also suffered the same fate? How many know that in 1995, then-Russian President Boris Yeltsin publicly stated that the Soviets had kept thousands of American servicemen in their Gulag system, and the Russian government offered the American military the personnel files of the first 4,000 Americans who perished in their slave labor system? How many people know that the U.S. military's missing persons office, Defense Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO), turned down the offer so that they could maintain the fiction that they didn't know anything about it?

Robert S. Miller, a retired Air Force intelligence Colonel and Defense Department intel analyst, deftly chronicled in his book, America's Abandoned Sons, how the military-industrial complex and American politicians left behind over 88,000 servicemen from America's wars of the 20th century. Miller's encyclopedic knowledge of the subject and presentation of incontrovertible facts are both remarkable and sobering.

America's Abandoned Sons description:

Tens of thousands of America's WWII, Korean Conflict, and Vietnam War military servicemen ended up as hostages secretly hijacked into the USSR. Today this regrettable saga is still one of America's most closely guarded secrets. As WWII ended Stalin captured all of Germany's eastern areas in which tens of thousands of captured American POWs were then being detained by Hitler's armed forces. Stalin secretly held them as hostages and denied any knowledge of them as the Cold War began. 

Their status unknown, Washington eventually declared them dead when in fact they were still alive in captivity. Thousands more were lost the same way when the Korean War ended: China and the USSR secretly exploited these hostages for intelligence purposes and then also disposed of them. Vietnam saw still more held back by Hanoi after that conflict ended, for the same reasons again. 

Today these abandoned sons, a few of whom may still be alive in captivity as you read this, are considered one of Washington's most closely guarded secrets. Now is time to expose this secret and end this unfortunate Cold War saga.

America's Abandoned Sons presents this subject in the clear, concise, objective verbiage of a veteran defense department analyst. This is a landmark book for the POW/MIA issue, as it was written by an insider and it is packed with evidence to back up the allegation that the Defense Department has been lying about the fate of its missing servicemen for almost seven decades.

Another seminal work on this subject, An Enormous Crime: The Definitive Account of American POWs Abandoned in Southeast Asia, by Bill Hendon and Elizabeth A. Stewart, presents according to Kirkus Reviews, a "sprawling indictment of eight U.S. administrations."

An Enormous Crime description:

An Enormous Crime is nothing less than shocking. Based on thousands of pages of public and previously classified documents, it makes an utterly convincing case that when the American government withdrew its forces from Vietnam, it knowingly abandoned hundreds of POWs to their fate. The product of twenty-five years of research by former Congressman Bill Hendon and attorney Elizabeth A. Stewart, this book brilliantly reveals the reasons why these American soldiers and airmen were held back by the North Vietnamese at Operation Homecoming in 1973, what these brave men have endured, and how administration after administration of their own government has turned its back on them. 

This authoritative exposé is based on open-source documents and reports, and thousands of declassified intelligence reports and satellite imagery, as well as author interviews and personal experience. An Enormous Crime is a singular work, telling a story unlike any other in our history: ugly, harrowing, and true.

 David Martin reviewed this work thus:

"If this 563-page heavily documented book by Bill Hendon and Elizabeth A. Stewart, published in 2007, doesn't make your blood boil, you are either as cold blooded as a snake or you are completely lacking in reading comprehension skills. Yes, we all know that soldiers are just expendable pawns in the game of politics, but condemning hundreds of your countrymen to a life of imprisonment far from home and pretending they are dead takes mistreatment of these pawns and their families and loved ones to a whole new level."

From Publishers Weekly:

Controversial former North Carolina congressman Hendon and attorney Stewart make the case that the U.S. knowingly left hundreds of POWs in Vietnam and Laos in 1973, and that every presidential administration since then has covered it up. The main reason for the secrecy, say the authors, is the billions in war reparations demanded by the Vietnamese and promised by Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon at the Paris Peace talks. 

Hendon and Stewart provide a mountain of evidence, mainly intelligence reports of live sightings of American prisoners in Vietnam and Laos that make for less-than-scintillating reading. But riveting sections describe Hendon's crusade on this issue in the early 1980s, including two meetings with President Reagan, pleading his case that the government free the live POWs. 

Hendon and Stewart directly accuse a long list of government officials of the coverup. Among the most culpable: Kissinger, President George H.W. Bush, Senators John McCain and John Kerry, Gen. Colin Powell, former secretary of state George Schultz and former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld. It's a chore wading through the live-sighting reports and the massive, detailed end notes, but the descriptions of Hendon's unsuccessful personal mission provide an intriguing story—and carry the ring of truth.

Click here to download official prison inspection requests to government officials and the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC), from U.S. Reps. Bill Hendon (R-NC) and John LeBoutillier (R-NY), pertaining to the research and investigation for An Enormous Crime by Hendon and Stewart.

On July 1, 2010, Ron Unz of The American Conservative published an astonishing account by Sydney Schanberg of the role that POW songbird John McCain had played in suppressing information about what happened to American soldiers missing in action in Vietnam. The same John McCain who is now so cozy with al-Qaeda death squads in Syria. The article, McCain and the POW Cover-Up, recounts how the "war hero" candidate buried information about POWs left behind in Vietnam:

"The sum of the secrets McCain has sought to hide is not small. There exists a telling mass of official documents, radio intercepts, witness depositions, satellite photos of rescue symbols that pilots were trained to use, electronic messages from the ground containing the individual code numbers given to airmen, a rescue mission by a special forces unit that was aborted twice by Washington—and even sworn testimony by two Defense secretaries that 'men were left behind.' This imposing body of evidence suggests that a large number—the documents indicate probably hundreds—of the U.S. prisoners held by Vietnam were not returned when the peace treaty was signed in January 1973 and Hanoi released 591 men, among them Navy combat pilot John S. McCain."

Read Sydney Schanberg's expository story here.

According to Paul Springer, an associate professor of comparative military studies at the Air Command and Staff College, which was to leave no fellow soldier behind, "There are limits to the concept of what we will and won't do," regarding World War I and World War II not proving to be ideal conflicts in which to rescue soldiers who had found themselves in danger behind enemy lines.

"I think there's plenty of evidence that we've [left soldiers behind]," Thomas Phillips, coauthor of the book, Leave No Man Behind: The Saga of Combat Search and Rescue, told Mashable in June of 2014.

Journalist Colin Daileda wrote regarding the fate of American PWOs in Japan:

"At the end of World War II, when the U.S. was deciding whether to detonate atomic bombs in the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the government was aware that American POWs were being held in those cities, according to Springer. Ultimately, the U.S. decided to drop an atomic bomb on each of the above cities, knowing full well that Americans were likely to die in the process."

The Destroyer of Man

To add insult to injury, the Vietnam Memorial was built in the shape of a black Delta rune, a symbol of powerful occult magic.

 

The Greek letter Delta Δ, and likewise its sister glyph, the Phoenician Daleth ד, are symbolic doorways to the spiritual world of the occult, and are the symbol of Set, the pagan Egyptian god called "the destroyer of man."

20th Century occultist and satanist, Aleister Crowley (1875-1947), who wrote a number of books on black magic, including his magnum opus, Magick in Theory and Practice, Part III of Magick, Liber ABA, Book 4, considered Set to be synonymous with Shaitan (Satan), the Arabic name of the devil.

Likewise, the Temple of Set was consecrated in Santa Barbara, California during the summer solstice of June 1975, by Lt. Col. Michael A. Aquino, a former U.S. Army Psychological Operations research and analysis officer, who co-wrote the infamous document From PSYOP to MindWar: The Psychology of Victory with then-Colonel Paul E. Valley. The Temple of Set was an offshoot of the Church of Satan, founded by Anton LaVey, who authored the Satanic Bible.

To say nothing of the Army's Delta Force and its most notorious former commanders, Col. James Gordon "Bo" Gritz and Lt. Gen. William G. "Jerry" Boykin, the architects of the Waco massacre, which took place on April 19, the Spring Equinox occult blood sacrifice to the beast by fire.

You see? Its all a big sick joke to these people.

Benghazi and the Conclusion

The federal government intentionally and routinely covered-up our live POWs abroad, and there have always been many unanswered questions regarding the official abandonment policy in Washington. The recent revelations regarding the changing policies toward POWs, however, became painfully clear with the highly politicized and scripted "prisoner swap" for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. That was merely a bone thrown to the American public, and three of the five Taliban terrorists exchanged for the deserter are now high level commanders of the Islamic State.

But we don't negotiate with terrorists. Right? 

Also, if you had any doubts about our government's abandonment policy, after Benghazi, there should no longer be any question.

Investigative journalist Mitchell Zuckoff, explained in his book, 13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened In Benghazi, what U.S. security operators who survived the attack on Benghazi experienced the night of September 11, 2012, and how the victims: U.S. Ambassador to Libya J. Christopher Stevens, U.S. Foreign Service Information Management Officer Sean Smith, and U.S. Navy SEALs Glen Doherty and Tyrone S. Woods, were intentionally abandoned to die by the current administration.

Emails have surfaced from insiders which prove that virtually every single member of Obama's White House staff—including those at the U.S. State Department—knew that the terrorist strike was not a mob uprising, which had been the White House talking point from day one. These emails also prove that the White House, in fact, knew that the assault was taking place in real time, and not only did nothing to intervene, but ordered top military commanders like General Carter Ham to stand down. 

 

Mitchell Zuckoff details in his book how the survivors of Benghazi were gagged by investigators of federal agencies in order to make it very difficult to officially recount their testimony of the events of that night.

Why? Because the Central Intelligence Agency's safe-house at the "consulate" in Benghazi was actively engaged in arming, training and funding terror cells of the Islamic State for future Middle East incursions in the continuing CIA covert Operation Cyclone to militarily attack and destabilize targeted regions for conquest.

That's what was going on there, that's why it was covered-up, and that's why these men were abandoned to die by the Obama Administration. The fact that this administration was arming the enemy was not supposed to get out. The truth was supposed to die with Ambassador Stevens and the rest.

The House Select Committee hearings on Benghazi are now underway with Representative Trey Gowdy (R-SC) chairing. Thankfully, some of the truth about this treason against our nation may finally see the light of day. However, my better judgment tells me different. Considering similar past Select Committees (such as Iran-Contra) confirms that not much will come of this at all. For, as history has shown us, the real intent of these committees and so-called "investigations" are not to disclose the truth, but to act as gate-keepers and disseminate only so much information as to satiate the public cravings and paint over the truth under a benevolent, thinly-veneered gloss of betrayal.

And now, Attorney General Eric Holder is announcing his resignation, yet another rat jumping ship. He is staying one step ahead of the burning bridge, and I guess he is feeling too much heat from either the Benghazi hearings, or the facilitation of criminal banking, or the purging of whistleblowers, or the Fast & Furious gun-running operation to arm Islamic extremists and Mexican drug cartels for a future invasion of the southern U.S. border states, or any number of other high crimes perpetrated during his tenure as the martial law administration arm of the Executive Branch in the military districts of the United States.

Also to consider, is the fact that any future prosecution of the criminal Wall Street bankers (money changers) and their political facilitators will lead directly back to Washington and land on the desk of the Attorney General of the United States of America.

No man left behind? That's just a slogan that is no longer in effect; a spirited cliché to make apathetic people feel better about abandoning America's sons on foreign enemy battlefields; an old principle that doesn't suit the ambitions of the new military-industrial complex.

The amusement park is closed. The rides have stopped. The music has fallen silent. The people have left and your ticket has expired . . . It's time to come out of Fantasy Land.

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