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China-Japan-Koreas
President Xi Jinping: What Happened to the U.S. POWs China Has Never Returned?
2015-09-28
[American Thinker] Families across America have a pressing question for Chinese leader Xi Jinping, now visiting the U.S. It's not among President Obama's public priorities for this trip, such as climate change, trade and cybersecurity. Nor is it likely to be asked by the news media or the Secretary General of the United Nations during Xi's visit there.

The question: What did Russia China do with the Americans it captured during the Korean and Cold Wars but never returned? The fate of these husbands, fathers, sons and brothers continues to haunt their loved ones, who are frustrated at Beijing for its long stonewalling and Washington for its failure to press the issue.
A special DoD intelligence cell should be committed to this research effort.
We can now report that a celebrated 2008 U.S.-China agreement to open Chinese military archives has failed to resolve the case of even a single U.S. POW, according to the Pentagon. The Chinese "cite classification issues that prevent them" from releasing information on American POWs, a spokesperson admitted to us late last week.

Take the case of Richard "Dick" Desautels, a handsome, blue-eyed nineteen-year-old from a Vermont dairy farm who was imprisoned by China and never returned. After decades of claiming he had "escaped" in 1953 from a Chinese-run prison camp in North Korea, Beijing in 2003 finally admitted it had actually abducted Desautels to China that year. According to their new story, Desautels died soon after from a sudden "mental illness" and his body was misplaced. Asked for proof of his fate, Beijing refuses to release the files it admits having on this missing American hero.
Sadly, the Chinese are not the only ones obfuscating facts regarding the status of American POW's.
Posted by:Besoeker

#1  I fear for what happened to those POWS who must all be dead by now.

China would have put them to use possibly as human guinea pigs in grisly medical experiments.
Posted by: anon1   2015-09-28 19:49  

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