From: jewell@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Larry Jewell)
Subject: 'NamVet Newsletter, Vol.5, no.1 (1/7)
Followup-To: soc.veterans
Organization: Purdue University
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 11:14:49 GMT


     Volume  5, Number  1                             January 21, 1991

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                     T A B L E   O F   C O N T E N T S

     
     1.  Editorials n' Things Worth Thinkin' About
          This is NOT "de ja vu"! .................................  1

     2.  Ol' Glory n' Shiftin' Sands
          We are all involved in the MidEast ......................  3
          Show your support! Counter-protests: How to! ............  5
                                                                         .   7
          Persian Gulf Force Facts ................................  8
          Persian Gulf Short Wave Broadcasters  ................... 12

     3.  In a country far away...
          Fake Doctors Identify GI remains ........................ 13
          Senate says US Abandoned MIAs ........................... 16
          MIAs Widow Has Questions ................................ 18
          US Veterans Group Offers POW Reward ..................... 20
          They haven't forgutten US!!! ............................ 22
          Captured GIs listed as "Dead" ........................... 23
          POW/MIA Family Members Arrested in Hanoi ................ 25
          POWs - YOU can help! .................................... 27

     4.  Break out the Clearasil <tm>!
          Criminal Investigation of Monsanto Corporation .......... 30
          Break out the Clearasil <tm>! ........................... 36

     5.  From Aztec Shore to Arctic Zone
          COAST GUARD UNITS JOIN MIDDLE EAST OPERATIONS ........... 37
          USCG in SEA - Part 2 .................................... 39

     6.  In-Touch
          In-Touch: What is it??? ................................. 45
          IN-TOUCH Registration/Request Form!!! ................... 48

     7.  The NamVet Chapel
          Return to the Killing Fields ............................ 50
          The Electronic Chapel ................................... 55
          Vietnam, US vets seek peace ............................. 56

     8.  Don't Abandon 'em
          Writing Our Incarcerated Veterans ....................... 58
          Operation Self-Help Background/Referral Checklist ....... 60
          A visit or note once in awhile? ......................... 65
          List of Incarcerated PenPals ............................ 66

     9.  Hearts n' Minds
          Christmas in 'Nam - Vietnam vets DO have heart! ......... 69
          Combat Stress - The Forgotten Warrior ................... 70
          VC Are Experts .......................................... 77
          Clay Hut Builder Seeks Peace ............................ 79

     10.  Uncle Sam wants YOU to know
          Ask the Veterans' Affairs Counselor ..................... 81
          No COLA  .... Yet! ...................................... 84
           ........................................................ 85

     11.  Concentrated IVVEC/NamVet Service
          The NamVet Service Desk ................................. 94
          Vet Asks "WHY civilian and not a vet hired?" ............ 96
          VETLink #1 Asks Congressman's Involvement ............... 97
          Congressman says "VA can't help BBSs..." ................ 98

     12.  Please keep this in mind
          The Unknown Soldier ..................................... 100
          Some Gave All... ........................................ 102











































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     E d i t o r i a l s   n '   T h i n g s   W o r t h   T h i n k i n '   A b o u t
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                          This is NOT "de ja vu"!
     
                             By G. Joseph Peck
                         NamVet's Managing Editor
                        VETLink #1 - Pittsfield, MA
                              (413) 443-6313
     
        I don't see reenactment of the military draft on the immediate 
     horizon.  I haven't yet heard the word "DEROS" when members of my 
     family or yours have been assigned to areas of the Persian Gulf.  
     Squadrons, Companies, Fleets and Brigades are going as a UNIT and 
     not as piecemeal replacements for others whose tour of duty has 
     ended.  Each is allowed to do his or her BEST.  I don't see the 
     thousands and thousands of protestors lining the streets as I did 
     in the mid-to-late sixties.
        And, within hours after I heard the words "The Liberation of 
     Kuwait has begun" I heard your President and mine say:  "This will 
     NOT be another Vietnam!  We will not tie our troops hands behind 
     their backs."
        I know that for many of you, the bombings and battle scenes we 
     too-often see on CNN <tm> and other network news stations bring 
     back memories that hurt sometimes beyond description.  I share 
     with you that pain and, as with many of you, that longing to get 
     out there in the front lines and serve our best.  Telephone calls 
     to the local recruiting stations too-painfully reveal that "age" 
     has caught up with me and I'm told "You're a little beyond the 
     maximum age" <WHERE have I heard THAT before <smile>)...
        What CAN we do and HOW can we serve now?  Its a question that 
     continuously intrudes upon my thoughts - especially when I'm 
     listening to the news or thinking about my sons, my brother now in 
     Dehrahn, my relatives now in-service.  WHAT will help them the 
     most - both now and in their future?  
     
        As many of you know, we've worked hard over the past few years 
     trying our best to build VIETNAM_VETS and NAMVET into areas where 
     veterans from all era's can derive the services and information 
     they need WHEN they need it.  In VIETNAM_VETS we've talked about 
     having parades for all our returning troops, about writing letters 
     TO ANY SERVICEPERSON, about sending cookies and other mementos of 
     home.  We've also talked about paving the way NOW for those who 
     return by doin' our best to insure that the services they will 
     NEED are there for them WHEN THEY NEED IT.  I'm including in this 
     issue a listing of Vet Centers as published in Ralph Roberts book: 
     "The Veterans Guide To Benefits."  (ISBN 0-451-16017-7)  In 
     upcoming months, I'd like to ask each of you to post in the 
     VIETNAM_VETS echo the name, address and contact person of any 
     Veteran Service Agency or group near you.  We'll be collecting and 
     amassing a list at VETLink #1 for any and all who are interested.
     
        What about NOW?  What can we do?  Many of us, I know, are 
     finding it extremely difficult to look beyond the sometimes-
     traumatic events of our pasts and the long, long, painfully-long 
     road we've travelled from isolation and rejection to acceptance 
     and respect.  The road has, for some of us, been unfairly long and 
     seemingly never-ending.  As I've seen in VIETNAM_VETS, some of us 
     
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     are having a very tough time sleeping at night and thinking beyond 
     the jungles, valleys and paths of yesterday. 
     
        We MUST, though, do our best to grow beyond what has held US 
     back for so many years.  
     
        One of those ways is helping NOW - helping a soldier's family 
     provide the food and housing they need, doing what WE can to help 
     carry the burden all those young (and not-so-young) families must 
     now bear.  
     
        Here at VETLink #1, we're also working to help in a massive 
     communications project involving political, military and civilian 
     personnel which holds the potential for involving and linking 
     veterans, their dependents and concerned others.  As we've 
     discovered, SERVICE seems to run in more than one direction.  Our 
     troops in the Persian Gulf NEED to hear from us, NEED to hear our 
     support and faith in them, NEED to know we believe in them.  
     Family members here in the U.S. NEED to communicate with our 
     troops, NEED to give and share their support and faith, NEED to 
     have contact with our new veterans.
     
        What WILL help our returning veterans the MOST, I feel, will be 
     OUR acceptance of them, OUR inclusion of them into OUR family, OUR 
     taking the time to listen to THEM - and helping where we can, 
     sharing things that soldiers know well.
     
        For a last-minute update on what we've all endured, Craig Roberts
     has very graciously contributed a very helpful article concerning
     the Post-Traumatic Stress many of us have endured.
     
        I've got to get this NamVet out to the many of you who have so 
     long waited for it.  My apologies that it IS late, but, as with so 
     many of you, there has been a lot taking up any of my SPARE 
     time...
     
                              'Til next month
                     Show a brother or sister veteran
                             That YOU care!!!
     
                              Ci'ao for Ni'ao
     
                                 -  Joe  -
     















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           O l '   G l o r y   n '   S h i f t i n '   S a n d s
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                   "We all are involved in the Mideast"
                by John Laird in the 12/23/90 El Paso Times
                           Input by: Joyce Flory
               NamVet's Incarcerated Veterans Section Editor
                    Desert Dolphin BBS - Las Cruces, NM
                              (505) 523-2811
     
       You  don't  have to be swabbing sand out of a tank turret to  be 
     involved in the Mideast crisis.
       The impact - if not the congressional commitment - is national.
       Consider what happened last month in Silver City,  NM,  when one 
     man answered his country's call.
       Jim  Hansard  works  as a radiologist in Silver City.  He  is  a 
     lieutenant colonel in the Army reserves. Previously,  he served in 
     the  active  military and saw duty in Vietnam.  One war should  be 
     enough  for one man,  but if fighting breaks out in the Mideast  - 
     God  forbid  -  it  could be the second war  for  the  47-year-old 
     Hansard.
       Shortly after Thanksgiving, Hansard's unit was called up. He now 
     is in Oklahoma. Plans are unannounced,  but we may assume that the 
     Pentagon is not focusing on Oklahoma range wars.
       When  Hansard's unit was called up,  dominoes began falling.  He 
     and  his  partner are the only radiologists in  Silver  City.  His 
     partner  now  must  work harder.  Patient services  are  stretched 
     precariously thin. That was the professional impact.
     
     CONTROLLING EMOTIONS
       The personal impact included a severe dent in the family income.
       Worse,   though,   is  Hansard's  absence,   which  largely  was 
     unanticipated. His wife,  Nancy,  and two teen-  age daughters are 
     rearranging  their  lives  to  make the adjustment  as  smooth  as 
     possible.
       "You just have to go into your practical mode,"  Nancy said,"and 
     concentrate  on the practicalities of life.  Otherwise,  emotional 
     upheaval can drive you nuts."
       Nancy and Jim were married when he was in Vietnam,  but that was 
     different."  We  had no children,  I had a job back then,  I lived 
     with  my parents and we did not have the financial obligations  we 
     face now."
       Nancy talks to Jim regularly by telephone. They talk about their 
     family. They talk about you and me, too.  "  Jim would like to see 
     the  nation  stand  together in this effort.  If we're  united  in 
     purpose, we can accomplish objectives more quickly,  and then they 
     can all come home."
       The  big picture here is clear.  Nancy didn't mention it,  but I 
     knew.  For  you and me,  next  year could bring another chance  to 
     give our military people a decent homecoming.
       We  blew  it  last time.  Jim Hansard and  thousands  of  others 
     remember.
     
     A SOLDIER WRITES
       Spec.  4 Scotty Dean of El Paso writes from Saudi Arabia:  "I've 
     been  a  'Lairdoid'  ever since you went up to the Basic  Training 
     area and acted like one of them for a week.  After that,  I hardly 
     ever  missed a column and now my wife Leslie mails your columns to 
     
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     me  in Saudi Arabia.  That one about Little Billy Bubba wanting  a 
     ponytail was hilarious.
       "I've never written to a newspaper before,  but keep up the good 
     work.  If  anyone ever tries to cut you down for writing what  you 
     believe, just remember where this letter came from. And, remember, 
     what my job represents."
       Dean's letter, it would seem, is to all of us." 
     



















































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                     PREPARING FOR A "COUNTER PROTEST"
                              by Sam Thompson
                       SeaHunt BBS - Burlingame, CA
                              (415) 343-5904
                 
       This is an attempt to give you some assistance and ideas for 
     countering the "Anti-War" protests that may be occurring in your 
     area.             
                                                                        
       This is not a primer for "Pro War" actions but rather for "Pro 
     Troops" activity.                                                                    
                                                                        
       1.  If a permit is required... GET ONE!!!                                    
       2.  Maximum effectiveness can be obtained by using local Media.  
           The best way to increase numbers is to notify the "local" 
           Country and Western radio station of what is going on, and 
           where, when, etc.                 
       3.  CB radios can be used to ask for support from "Truckers" in 
           most cases they will gladly "Take a few Laps" for you.                              
       4.  Use "Marshals" (crowd control) give them distinctive 
           markings (coloured duct tape for arm bands works well.  Also 
           use them to cover your six.     
       5.  Materials;                                                               
           a. For "fixed signs" (leaned against trees, etc.) use 
              drywall (also called sheetrock) takes paint real well and 
              does not blow away.                                                    
           b. For "yellow ribbons" (everyone should have one) there is      
              as very thin poly type tape used by contractors, works        
              well and is cheap.                                            
           c. Flags (US) are vital...as many as possible.... good 
              source for cheap ones is a "Party supplies" type of place            
           d. Use duct tape to attach signs etc to vehicles, does not 
              mess up paint and is easy to remove.                               
           e. "Butcher" paper is very good for large banners.               
       6.  If your efforts bear fruit you will attract large crowds of 
           Americans, accidents and illness may occur.  Try to get 
           "medics", first aiders, Volunteer Firemen there with you, 
           they should have basic "aid kits" with them.  Have them wear 
           RED armbands (again coloured duct tape is good).           
       7.  Communicate with local police at scene, advise them that 
           your efforts will be peaceful... keep it that way... control 
           DRUNKS...one idiot driving against traffic in a pickup 
           covered with flags will be the ONLY thing to make "The News 
           at 11"                                                     
       8.  AVOID marches as they are very hard to control....DO NOT 
           parallel "anti's"... instead be waiting at their 
           destination... take the places that have the best "sun" or 
           "Lighting" (media loves this, makes their job easier)                                                               
       9.  If interviewed, STRESS that you are NOT "PRO WAR" but rather 
           "PRO TROOPS".   STRESS the fact that the "anti's" are 
           helping "Iraq" not stopping ANYTHING, that they are just 
           "Helping Iraq"                               
       10. Force the "coward issue".   Remember the bumper stickers 
           that had the "peace sign" and said "Footprint of the 
           American Chicken"?  Use that!!  Make the peace sign "yellow" 
           and the lettering Black......               
       11. Short slogans in BIG PRINT are best... "HONK to support your 
           Troops" is very effective.                                                       
       12. Recon area and locate assets, convenience stores, fast food, 
     
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           etc. that are close by... you will need them.                                       
                                                                        
       I hope that this is of help to those of you that have been 
     wanting to "DO SOMETHING".  It feels good to be at one of these 
     and with any luck the "anti's" will be discouraged by your efforts 
     and may leave.  Ours did!!      
                                                                        
       LET NO ANTIWAR PROTEST GO UNANSWERED.............
     
                            -- Sam Thompson --
     
















































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     .           For Information on our Saudi Soldiers:              .
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     .             ARMY:         1-703-614-0730                      .
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     .             NAVY:         1-800-732-1206                      .
     .                           1-800-255-3808                      .
     .                           1-202-746-5915                      .
     .             MARINES:      1-800-523-2694                      .
     .             AIR FORCE:    1-800-253-9276                      .
     .             COAST GUARD:  1-800-283-8724                      .
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                         Persian Gulf Force Facts
                         Submitted by John Mosson
               Weare Nh Pc Host (USCATCOM) - Manchester, NH
                              (603) 529-1948 
     
        The U.S.-dominated 28-nation force in the Persian Gulf is the 
     biggest such force assembled since the Korean War. In all, more 
     than 690,000 soldiers from 28 nations are arrayed against Iraq's 
     estimated 545,000 fighters in southern Iraq and Kuwait.
        Here's a breakdown of the forces confronting each other in the 
     Gulf:
     
                                   IRAQ
     The army has seven corps totaling 55-60 divisions, with 555,000 
     regular troops and 480,000 reserves, all believed to have been 
     mobilized. Regular forces include six divisions of elite 
     Republican Guards. Five others reportedly are being formed. Iraq 
     claims its Popular Army militia has 8 million men, but its true 
     strength is estimated at 850,000.
       In Kuwait and southern Iraq, as of Jan. 15, Iraq had an 
     estimated 28 to 33 divisions. Here is a breakdown of forces in the 
     war theater:
     
     ARMY
      545,000 troops
      4,200 tanks
      2,800 armored personnel carriers
      3,100 artillery pieces
     
     AIR FORCE
      700 combat aircraft (including Su-24 fighter-bombers; MiG-29 
     interceptors)
     
     NAVY UNITS
      A training frigate with anti-submarine torpedoes
      8 missile-attack craft
      6 torpedo boats
      Several captured Kuwaiti missile craft.
     
                            ANTI-IRAQ COALITION
     UNITED STATES
       About 425,000 military personnel are now in the region in 
     Operation Desert Shield. That is expected to reach at least 
     430,000. At the peak of the Vietnam War in 1968, 545,000 Americans 
     were involved.
     
     ARMY
       245,000 troops
       Major Army units deployed include:
       1st Infantry Division (Mechanized) of Fort Riley, Kan.
       1st Cavalry Division of Fort Hood, Texas.
       1st Armored Division of Ansbach, Germany.
       3rd Armored Division of Frankfurt, Germany
       24th Infantry Division (Mechanized) of Fort Stewart, Ga.
       82nd Airborne Division of Fort Bragg, N.C.
       101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) of Fort Campbell, Ky.
       2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment of Nurenberg, Germany; and the 3rd 
         Armored Cavalry Division of Fort Bliss, Texas.
     There are 2,000 U.S. tanks, 1,700 helicopters and 2,200 armored 
     
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     personnel carriers deployed.
     
     MARINES
       75,000 troops
       Important Marine Corps infantry deployments include:
       Marine Division from Camp Pendleton and Twentynine Palms, Calif.
       Marine Expeditionary Brigade from Little Creek, Va.
       Marine Expeditionary Brigade from Camp Pendleton, Calif.
       3rd Marine Aircraft Wing from El Toro, Calif.
     
     SPECIAL FORCES
       1st Special Operations Command (contingent)
     
     NAVY
       60,000 personnel; 108 ships in gulf, the Arabian Sea and the 
        eastern Mediterranean Carriers: Saratoga, John F. Kennedy, 
        Midway, America, Theodore Roosevelt and Ranger 450 warplanes 
        (A-6 Intruders; F-A-18 Hornets; F-14 Tomcats; AV-8B Harrier 
        jump-jets).
     
     AIR FORCE
       45,000 personnel
       800 combat aircraft (F117A Stealth fighter-bombers; F-111F 
        bombers; F-16s; F-15s; A-10 Thunderbolts; F-4 Wild Weasel; B52G 
        strategic bombers).
     (Not all forces listed are likely to be involved in Persian Gulf 
         War)
       150,500 troops
       330 combat aircraft
       800 tanks
       36 major naval units
     
     EGYPT
     Some 38,500 troops (paratroopers, commandos, chemical warfare 
     specialists and infantry)
       3rd Armored Division (elements)
       4th Armored Division (elements)
       3rd Mechanized Infantry Division (elements)
       
     SYRIA
       21,000 troops (Elite Special Forces units)
       9th Armored Division
       
     PAKISTAN
       13,000 troops
        6,000 advisers
        
     MOROCCO
       1,700 troops
       
     BANGLADESH
       2,000 troops
       
     SENEGAL
       500 troops
       
     NIGER
       480 troops
       
     
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     BRITAIN
       35,000 personnel
       60 combat jets (Tornado; Jaguar)
       16 warships
       1st Armored Division
       
     FRANCE
       10,000 personnel
       6th Light Armored Division (elements)
       12-14 warships (guided-missile cruiser, missile destroyers, 
        frigates, a corvette).
       3 squadrons combat aircraft (interceptors, fighter-bombers)
       5th Combat Helicopter Regiment
       Foreign Legion's 3rd Infantry Regiment
       1st Spahis Cavalry Regiment
       Anti-aircraft missile unit.
     
     ITALY
     NAVY
       Frigates Libeccio, Orsa and Zeffiro Corvettes
     AIR FORCE
       14 Combat aircraft (Tornado fighters; Starfighters)
       
     CANADA
       1,700 personnel
     NAVY
       Destroyers Athabaskan and Terra Nova
     AIR FORCE
       18 CF-18 fighter jets
     
     NETHERLANDS
       Frigates Jacon van Heemskerk and Philips van Almonde
     
     SPAIN
       Frigates Nuamancia, Infanta Cristina and Diana
       
     AUSTRALIA
       Guided-missile destroyer Brisbane
       Frigate Sydney
       
     BELGIUM
     NAVY
       Minehunters Iris and Myosotis
     AIR FORCE (Sent to Turkey as part of a NATO air defense 
        deployment).
       Four C-130 military transport planes
       18 Mirage F5 fighters to Turkey
       
     ARGENTINA
     ARMY
       100 troops
     NAVY
       Destroyer Almirante Brown
       Frigate Spiro
       
     SOVIET UNION
       Udaloy-class destroyer Admiral Tributs
       One anti-submarine ship.
       
     
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     GREECE
       Frigate Elli
       
     GERMANY
       AIR FORCE (Sent by NATO at Turkey's request to bolster air 
         defenses in case of an Iraqi attack).
       18 Luftwaffe Alpha jets
       
     DENMARK
       Corvette Olfert Fischer
       
     NORWAY
       Coast Guard cutter Andenes (supporting the Danish corvette)
       Supplying NATO ally Turkey with air-to-air missiles.
     
     PORTUGAL
       Naval support vessel Sao Miguel.
       
     POLAND
       Military field hospital.
       Hospital ship.
       
     CZECHOSLOVAKIA
       200 troops (anti-chemical warfare equipment)
       
     HONDURAS
       150 troops
       
     BULGARIA
       Small detachment of military medical personnel.
       
     NEW ZEALAND
       Two C-130 transports
       Army medical team.
       
     PHILIPPINES
       Small volunteer detachment of military medical personnel.
       
     SOUTH KOREA
       200-member medical team.
       
     TURKEY
       100,000 troops (deployed on its southern border with Iraq, tying 
         down an equal number of Iraqis).
       42-plane NATO contingent of Italian, Belgian and German jets.
     













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                Short wave broadcasters in the Persian Gulf
                        Submitted by Charles Harper
                     Classic City Node #2 - Athens, GA
                              (404) 548-0726
     
     Here are the latest schedules from shortwave broadcasters in the 
     Persian Gulf area.  Some of the times and frequencies may be 
     different from those given in published sources before the start 
     of the war:
     
                  all times are in Universal Time (UTC)
                  all frequencies are in kHz
     
                            Time         Frequency
                            ---------    ---------
             Radio Baghdad  2100-2300    13660 (try LSB, better audio)
      Radio Amman Jordan    2000-2200      9560
      Radio Damascus Syria  2005-2100     12085
            "                  "          15095
             R. Baghdad    0230-0430      11830
        Voice of Turkey    0300-0400       9445
                    "          "          17880
     Voice of the U.A.     2200-0000       9600
            (Abu Dhabi)                   11985
                  "            "          13605
     U.A.E. Radio (Dubai)  0330-0400      11940
                  "            "          13675
                  "            "          15400
             Kol Israel    2300-2330 \  /  9435
                           0000-0030  \/  11605
                           0100-0130  /\  15640
      Radio Amman Jordan   0500-0600      13655
     
      Radio Cairo Egypt    (unknown)       9475   (reception is poor)
     
     N.B.  For Kol Israel, all three frequencies are in use during all 
     three broadcasts.  Intervening broadcasts are in French (i.e. 1/2 
     hour English, 1/2 hour French).
     
     All broadcasts listed are (or should be) in English.  Due to the 
     volatile nature of the situation in the area, all the above are 
     subject to change. This is especially true of R. Baghdad.
     
















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              I n   a   c o u n t r y   f a r   a w a y . . .
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             FAKE DOCTORS FALSELY IDENTIFIED REMAINS OF GIs 
            MISSING IN SOUTHEAST ASIA, SENATE PANEL REPORT SAYS
                              By Peter Samuel
               Special to the 11/20/90 New York City Tribune
                   Input by: Terry Hayes - Waterloo, NY
                        VETLink #1 - Pittsfield, MA
                              (413) 443-6313
     
     Washington  Nov  20  -  A congressional report says  the  Pentagon 
     employed   unqualified   forensic  personnel  who   misrepresented 
     themselves  as  doctors  and  falsely identified  the  remains  of 
     missing US servicemen in Vietnam and Laos.
       According  to  the  Senate  Foreign  Relations  committee  staff 
     report,  which  was  obtained by the New York City Tribune,  a  US 
     government  agency "has falsely identified as many as 80  separate 
     sets  of  remains of US servicemen who were listed  as  MIA,"  and 
     warned   that  "the  total  number  of  sets  of  remains  falsely 
     identified may be much higher."
       In  one  case,  bones  later inspected by a  qualified  forensic 
     scientist  as those of an animal,  not a human,  were accepted  as 
     missing in action (MIA) remains, the report said.  In another case 
     a   completely,   empty  coffin  was  allegedly  presented  to   a 
     serviceman's family as "remains."
       The  actions  reportedly  occurred at the  Defense  Department's 
     Central  Identification  Laboratory in Hawaii (CIL-HI)  the  staff 
     report says.
       It was not clear from the report,  which still appeared to be in 
     draft form exactly when the misrepresentations occurred,  but some 
     observers  have suggested that it was during the late years of the 
     Reagan Administration.
       The 67-page report, titled "Issues," is described as an addendum 
     to an Interim Report released by the committee October 28, 1990.
       The Senate investigators quote Dr.  Michael Charney,  a physical 
     anthropologist   and  emeritus  professor  at  the  University  of 
     Colorado, as concluding that CIL-HI engaged in fraudulent findings 
     "This  facility entrusted with the analysis of mostly skeletonized 
     remains   of   our  servicemen...   is  guilty  of   unscientific, 
     unprofessional  work.  The administrative and technical  personnel 
     have engaged knowingly in deliberate distortion of details deduced 
     from  the  bones  to  give  credibility  to  otherwise  impossible 
     identifications."
       The Senate investigators quote Charney as saying that the CIL-HI 
     personnel  had been "blatantly,  deliberately lying"  in order  to 
     close out MIA cases.
       He   says   that  many  of  the  personnel  who  performed   the 
     identifications  lacked necessary forensic training and "had never 
     been awarded doctorates, yet referred to themselves as doctors."
       Another  witness,  Dr.  George Gill,  secretary of the  physical 
     anthropology section of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, 
     made   similar  charges  of  forensic  fraud  against  the  Hawaii 
     laboratory, telling the Senate staff that the misrepresentation of 
     MIA   remains   "results   either   form   extreme   carelessness, 
     incompetence,  fabrication  of  data or some combination of  these 
     things."
       The staff paper says that to date the Defense Department has not 
     
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