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thedrifter
09-26-03, 03:39 PM
P.O.W. Charles Huston From Ohio "ALIVE IN LAOS"

To all Americans,

The Defense POW/MIA Office will be going to Southeast Asia to negotiate with the Laotians, Cambodians, and Vietnamese on the last known alive and unaccounted for POW/MIA cases from the Vietnam War in October 2003. Charles G. Huston from Ohio has been reported alive in Laos in United States intelligence reports.

We never negotiated with Laos for the POWs they held. Laos was not even part of the Paris Peace Accords. Henry Kissinger tried to get the Vietnamese to be responsible for POWs in ! Laos. Le Duc Tho, the Vietnamese negotiator in 1973, told Kissinger that Laos was a separate country and that we had to deal with them on the American POWs they held.

The 1993 Senate Select Committee on POW/MIAs "Report" stated that we did leave POWs alive in communist hands in 1973, but there was no proof they are alive today. Attached you will find a live sighting report revealing Charles Huston is alive since 1990. There are also quite a few other intelligence reports on live Americans since 1990. The United States Government has not done anything constructive and has failed to competently or seriously negotiate for the live people we failed to bring home on our exit from Southeast Asia. Some still survive.

The U. S. government normalized relations with Vietnam in 1995; they established a road map that was supposed to account for POW/MIAs. That road Map was totally ineffective and the Vietnamese did not live up to the letter, spirit or intent of that agreement. The US did not hold them accountable for noncompliance on live POWs in communist hands on our exit from Vietnam in 1973. The US has not held the Vietnamese accountable for the last known alive and other POW/MIA survivors since normalization. It has been easier to accept crash site/battle site POW/MIA remains then to press for answers on unreturned captives and other survivors. Our negotiators are reluctant, intimidated, and really inept in making headway on those POW/MIAs known to have been alive.

When the United States Government negotiates with communists in Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam in October, our concern is that this will result in another meaningless agreement (Road Map) where we get nothing in return regarding our live POWs. The 1993 POW Select Committee findings that "Men were left there alive, but there is not proof that they are alive today," ignores the many live sighting reports at the time and since. Our family wants th! ese reports analyzed and action taken for his recovery and return home . Use our intelligence and operations ability for its intended purpose. POW live sightings still occur. Some claim these men no longer want to return. They have been subject to decades of abandonment and duress. They are required by the Geneva Convention to be brought to a neutral third country and so declare that intent. If so we demand to know of this. Why is Charles Huston denied any sincere effort by the U. S. government for his return?

One reason for withholding information on live POWs is for reasons of national security. Trade and foreign relations with other countries is one often the national security reason. Have Charles G. Huston and the others returned in exchange for improved trade relations.


Gulf War POW/MIA Capt. Michael Speiche! r's status was changed from KIA to MIA and then to MIA Captured. Greg Huston's life is just as important and valuable as Capt. Speicher's, we want him home. His is not the only case, their are many others. Why budget the Defense Intelligence Agency's (DIA) and the Defense POW/MIA Office's (DPMO) half efforts where they find it easier to accept remains on deceased individuals while ignoring the living

Robert Seelbach
3295 Lullaby Ln. Clinton, Oh. 44216
Phone 330-825-9850





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