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POW and MIA Issues

Geneva Convention Relative to POW Treatment.
Y 4.F 76/2:P 93/5 (fiche)

Imprisonment and Escape of LT. (JG.) Dieter Dengler, USNR. Hearing, Senate Armed Services Committee, September 16, 1966. ii, 28 pp. I haven't read the item, but the information I have seen in other sources on this incident is: Dengler was shot down near the Mu Gia Pass on February 1, 1966, and captured by the Pathet Lao. He and two other prisoners escaped June 29; he was finally spotted by an aircraft, and rescued, on July 20, 1966.
Y 4.Ar 5/3:D 41

Investigation of Students for a Democratic Society, Part 7-A (Return of Prisoners of War, and Camera News, Inc., "Newsreel"). Hearings of the House Committee on Internal Security, December 9-11, 16, 1969.   pp. v, 2185-2430, xii. Includes extensive testimony by two former POWs, Robert F. Frishman and Douglas B. Hegdahl, who had been released in August 1969.

American Prisoners of War in Southeast Asia. A report of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, February 16, 1970.
S. Rpt. 91-705

Problems of Prisoners of War and Their Families. Hearing March 6, 1970, before the House Committee on Armed Services.  ii + pp. 5987-6103.
Y 4.Ar 5/2a:969-70/49

The Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War, With Reservations, if Any, by Governments Participating in Hostilities in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. Committee print prepared for the Subcommittee on National Security Policy and Scientific Developments, House Committee on Foreign Affairs, May 1970. xii, pp. The text has been placed on-line in the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project, at Texas Tech University, in three parts. pp. i-xii, 1-20,   pp. 21-50,   pp. 51-81.

Full Committee Consideration . . . and Hearing on House Resolution 1282, Commending the Effort to Release Prisoners Held near Hanoi, North Vietnam. Hearing of December 3, 1970, before the House Committee on Armed Services.  Only the later pages of the volume, pp. 12312-12342, deal with this subject.  The committee approved H.R. 1282 with an amendment (approved 26-2) by L. Mendel Rivers, stating it would be the "sense of the House of Representatives" that the U.S. negotiators in Paris be instructed that they refuse to discuss any issue other than prisoners of war until they had achieved "substantial progress" on the POW issue.
Y 4.Ar 5/2a:969-70/76

House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on National Security Policy and Scientific Developments, various dates between 1969 and 1973. Portions, at least, of the texts of some of these have been placed on-line in the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project, at Texas Tech University.

American Prisoners of War in Vietnam.  Hearings of November 13-14, 1969.  iv, 118 pp.
Y 4.F 76/1:P 93/3
American Prisoners of War in Southeast Asia, 1970.  Hearings of April 29, May 1, 6, 1970.  iv, 148 pp.   There is a Gallup poll of February 1970 on public attitudes to the problem on pp. 128-30. Front matter and pp. 1-34,   pp. 35-73,   pp. 74-111,   pp. 112-148.
Y 4.F 76/1:P 93/4

American Prisoners of War in Southeast Asia, 1971.  Hearings of March 23-April 20, 1971.  ix, 583 pp. Almost all has been placed online: Front matter and pp. 1-54,   pp. 55-94,   pp. 95-150,   pp. 151-198,   pp. 199-274,   pp. 275-313,   pp. 315-352,   pp. 353-423,   pp. 425-427, 463-478.
Y 4.F 76/1:P 93/4/971

American Prisoners of War in Southeast Asia, 1971, Part 2.  Hearings of June 29-September 28, 1971.  vi, 173 pp. A large portion has been placed online. pp. i-vi, 1-48, pp. 49-84, pp. 85-113.
Y 4.F 76/1:P 93/4/971/pt. 2

American Prisoners of War in Southeast Asia, 1972, Part 3.  Hearings of February 3, March 16, 1972.  I have only located a small portion online, so far: Front matter and pp. 1-50.
Y 4.F 76/1:P 93/4/972/pt.3

Hearings on Restraints on Travel to Hostile Areas: H.R. 1594 (Clean Bill H.R. 8023), H.R. 278, H.R. 297, H.R. 2691, H.R. 3999, H.R. 6047. Hearings of the House Committee on Internal Security, May 9 and 10, 1973, on bills that would have established heavy criminal penalties for Americans who travelled to places like North Vietnam without US government permission. The chairman of the committee was sponsoring such a bill, H.R. 8023. v, 78, iii pp. There is testimony by former prisoners of war James A. Mulligan, Edwin A. Shuman, Thomas Hall, Jr., David W. Hoffman, and Larry Carrigan. Also by Ramsey Clark.
Y 4.In 8/15:T 69/973

American Prisoners of War and Missing in Action in Southeast Asia, 1973.  Hearings of May 23, 30, 31, 1973.  vi, 237 pp. Only a bit more than half has been placed online, as far as I can tell: Front matter and pp. 1-48,   pp. 49-87,   pp. 88-140.
Y 4.F 76/1:P 93/4/973/pt.4

Missing in Action in Southeast Asia, 1973.  Hearing of December 5, 1973.  v, 77 pp.
Y 4.F 76/1:As 4/14/973

Prisoners of War and Missing in Action. Report of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, September 25, 1972. Senate Report No. 92-1216. 7 pp. The text has been placed on-line in the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project at Texas Tech University.

U.S. POW's and MIA's in Southeast Asia. Hearings before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, January 28, 1974. iv, 116 pp. The text has been placed on-line in the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project, at Texas Tech University, in four parts. pp. i-xiii, 1-26,   pp. 27-56,   pp. 57-86,   pp. 87-116.
Y 4.F 76/2:As 4/14

Missing in Action in Southeast Asia. Report of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, April 10, 1974. 16 pp. House Report No. 93-982. The text has been placed on-line in the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project at Texas Tech University.

Hearing on HR 16520, Legislation Concerning the Changing of Status of Military Personnel Missing in Action.  Hearings of a sub-committee of the House Armed Services Committee, October 10, November 19, 1974.  ii, 87 pp.
Y 4.Ar 5/2a:973-78/80

Americans Missing in Southeast Asia. Hearings, September 23, 1975 to September 21, 1976, before the House Select Committee on Missing Persons in Southeast Asia, 5 vols. Testimony by Ms. Anita Lauve [a.k.a. Anita Lauve Nutt] of the Rand Corp., pt. 4, pp. 1-20, on the post-1954 French experience, is interesting. Part or all of this has been placed on-line in the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project, at Texas Tech University.
Y 4.M 69/3:Am 3/pt.1-5

Americans Missing in Southeast Asia. Final report of the House Select Committee on Missing Persons in Southeast Asia, December 13, 1976. xi + 267 pp. The text has been placed on-line in the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project at Texas Tech University, in multiple parts. Letter of Transmittal, Table of Contents, and Chapters I and II (pp. 1-19);   Chapter III;   Chapter IV;   Chapter V;   Chapter VI (pp. 105-132);   Chapter VII;   Chapter VIII;   Chapter IX;   Chapter X (pp. 237-246).
H. Rpt. 94-1764

"Live Sighting" Reports of Americans Listed as Missing in Action in Southeast Asia. 2 vols. Hearings before the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs, January 28-February 27, 1986 (vol. I), May 1-August 12, 1986 (vol. II). v, 485, iv, 295 pp.
Y 4.V 64/4:S.hrg.99-1089/v.1-2

Military Personnel Subcommittee, House Committee on National Security

Accounting for U.S. POW/MIA's in Southeast Asia. Hearing of June 28, 1995. iv, 866 pp.
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United States and Vietnamese Government Knowledge and Accountability for U.S. POW/MIAs.  Hearing of November 14, 1995.  iii, 266 pp.
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Department of Defense's Comprehensive Review of POW/MIA Cases.  Hearings of November 20, 30, 1995.  iii, 81 pp.
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Department of Defense's Comprehensive Review of Indochina POW/MIA Cases.  Hearing of December 14, 1995.  iii, 386 pp.
Y 4.SE 2/1 A:995-96/22

The Presidential Determination of Full Faith Cooperation by Vietnam on POW/MIA Matters. Hearing of June 19, 1996.
Y 4.SE 2/1 A:995-96/50

Accounting for POW/MIA's from the Korean War and the Vietnam War.  Hearing of September 17, 1996.  iii, 181 pp.
Y 4.SE 2/1 A&gml.995-96/51
 

Report of the POW/MIA Task Force Fact-Finding Mission to Bangkok, Hanoi, and Seoul.  Report to the House Foreign Affairs Committee on a mission of February 11-18, 1986.  vii, 52 pp.
Y 4.F 76/1:P 93/14

House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs, various dates:

Y 4.F 76/1:So 8/39
House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific
POWs/MIAs: Missing Pieces of the Puzzle.  Hearings of July 14, 22, 1993.  iii, 259 pp.  The witnesses included Stephen Morris and George Carver.
Y 4.F 76/1:P 93/25

POW/MIA: Where Do We Go from Here?  Hearing of February 10, 1994.  iv, 365 pp.
Y 4.F 76/1:P 93/24

Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs (John F. Kerry, Chair) The Cuban program: Torture of American Prisoners by Cuban Agents.  Hearing before the House Committee on International Relations, November 4, 1999.  iv, 161 pp.
Y 4.IN 8/16:AM 3/6
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