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The Front Page Korea-Cold War Send To: Families of the Missing 12 Clifford Drive Farmingdale, Ny 11735 THE FRONT PAGE KOREA-COLD WAR SEND TO: FAMILIES OF THE MISSING 12 CLIFFORD DRIVE FARMINGDALE, NY 11735 http://www.koreacoldwar.org NovAug 2017201 7 Issue # #5756 POW-MIAPOW-MIA WEWE Remember!Remenber! 2017 TENTATIVE2018 FAMILY FAMILY UPDATE UPDATE SCHEDULE*SCHEDULE AugJanuaryust 10 20-11, San 2017 Diego, Korean CA, Cold February War Annual,24 Jacksonville, DC September FL,March 9, 2017 24 El Detroit, Paso, TX MI – NovemberApril 21 4,Rapid 2017 City, Boise. SD, ID May, January 19 Louisville, 20, 2018 KY, San June Diego, 21-24 Ca Washington, – February 24,D.C.** 2018, Fort Myers,August FL – March9-10 Washington, 24, 2018, El D.C.*** Paso TX. September – April 22, 8 Philadelphia 2018, Rapid City, SD CContactontact your your Congressional Congressional Rep Repss through through thethe U.S. Capitol Switchboard - 1-202-224- PLEASE NOTE OUR 3121U.S. Capitalor House SwitchboardCloak Room - 1-202-224- at 1-202- PLENEWASE ADDRESSNOTE OUR NEW 2253121-7350 or House (R) and Cloak 1-202 Room-225-7330 at 1-202- (D) 225-7350 (R) and 1-202-225-7330 (D) ADDRESS Congressional Contacts: It’s almost time to renew your membership. http://congCongressionalress.org/congressorg/home/ Contacts: It’s time to renew your membership. UShttp://congress.org/congressorg/home/ Senate: http://www.senate.gov/ Please take care of it before House:US Senate: http://www.house.gov/ http://www.senate.gov/ Help us continue our work. WhiteHouse: House: http://www.house.gov/ http://www.whitehouse.gov youPlease get busy note with our the new holidays. address White House: http://www.whitehouse.gov KoreaHelp usCold continue War Families our work. of the Please note our new address Missing BoardBoard of ofDirectors Directors and and Staff Staff Korea Cold War12 CliffordFamilies D ofrive, the Missing NationalNational Chai Chairr– -Irene Irene Mandra, Mandra, Family Family Membe Memberr Farmingdale,12 Clifford Drive, NY 11735 Vice President–Charlotte Mitnick, Family Farmingdale, NY 11735 MemberVice President - Charlotte Mitnick, Family Member No application is necessary if you are TreasurerTreasurer – - GailGail Stallone,Stallone, Family Family Member Member Secretary - VACANT No alreadyapplication a member. is necessaryPlease if youprovide are your name and address on the check. FundraisingFundraising– - MelodyMelody Raglin, Raglin, Family Family Member Member already a member. Please provide your Editor- Arlene Groden Cohen, Family Member Webmaster - Danny Gargus name and address on the check. Webmaster – Danny Gargus Editor - Tracy Schnurr (TS Printing) ANNOUNCEMENT OF LAWSUIT AGAINST U.S. GOVERNMENT TO COMPEL DECLASSIFICATION OF RECORDS FROM KOREAN & COLD WARS REGARDING POW/MIA SERVICE MEMBERS Families of Those Missing To Demand President Trump/Congressional Leaders to Seek Answers from Moscow/Beijing & Revamp POW/MIA Agency - Arlington, Virginia – On Wednesday, August 9, 2017, at 2:30 P.M. EDT at the Renaissance Arlington Capital View Hotel, Studio D (2nd floor), 2800 Potomac Ave, Arlington, VA 22202, family members representing POW/MIAs from the Korean/Cold Wars and experts on the topic will announce the filing of a lawsuit under the Freedom of Information Act to force multiple federal agencies to release government records kept classified concerning the fate of their loved ones since the 1950s. Additionally, representative of the major family groups will also demand President Trump and Congress to put pressure on Moscow and Beijing to release their records on missing Americans, plus revamp the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, which has been without a director for more than a year. “We’ve run out of patience and we’re running out of time,” says Bob Moore, whose brother, Capt. Harry Moore was shot down over North Korea in 1951 and evidence shows may have been taken to the Soviet Union with other American aviators, according to now declassified US intelligence records and former Soviet officials. Moore said, “We’re asking our elected representatives to stand up for military families who’ve sacrificed so much for our country.” “It is astonishing the U.S. government is still keeping information classified on these lost heroes, from intelligence documents withheld as Top Secret just this year to operational files from the 1950s,” said Mark S. Zaid, the Washington, D.C. attorney who is handling the litigation on behalf of the Moore family and others. “We hope this lawsuit will help compel the Trump Administration to finally bring these men home,” said Zaid. The three major family groups – the Coalition of Families of Korean & Cold War POW/MIAs, the Korea- Cold War Families of the Missing, Inc., and the National Alliance of Families are in town for an annual briefing with the Pentagon and will join with the Moore family to issue three demands: • Declassify U.S. files that continue to be held by agencies such as the Department of Defense, U.S. Air Force, National Security Agency, Defense Intelligence Agency, Central Intelligence Agency, National Archives & Records Administration and the Department of State; • Pressure Moscow and Beijing to release their dossiers on U.S. POW/MIAs, including files said by declassified US reports to be in closed Russian KGB and GRU (military intelligence) archives, as well as files that the Pentagon paid China for, but never received, regarding Americans held by the Chinese but never repatriated; and, • Name a respected leader for the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency and re-start the now languishing program to follow leads on U.S. prisoners reported held in the former Soviet Union, China and North Korea after the Korean and Cold Wars. “We want the American government to show the same faith to our missing loved ones that they showed to the U.S. government during their service,” stated Pat Dickinson, whose brother Jack and his fellow crewmen were shot down by the Soviets and possibly captured during the Cold War. She added “There may not be much chance our loved ones are still alive, but there remains hope we can still find out what really happened to them.” Multiple family members, legal counsel and experts on the POW/MIA history of the era including Mark Sauter and John Zimmerlee (co-authors of American Trophies: How US POWs Were Surrendered to North Korea, China and Russia by Washington’s “Cynical Attitude” (2013)), will announce the lawsuit and be available for questions, as will Norman Kass, who from 1992 – 2010, served as the Staff Director for the U.S.-Russia Joint Commission on POW/MIAs. ININ MYMY OPINION OPINION byBy Irene Irene Mandra Mandra DearBROTHER Members, MARINUS and the SHIP OF MIRACLES ThisThe Korean article War was began sent on 25 toJune me 1950 by John and that July thirty five crew and twelve Zimmerlee, researcher and author. officers were flown to Norfolk, VA to take Ithe found S.S. Meredith it very Victory interesting. out of the laidI hope youup fleet will in theto oJames. River. The Meredith Victory, a merchant ship operated by Moore- McCormack Lines, had been chartered to the Military Sea Transportation Service. She was placed under the command of Captain Leonard P. LaRue, then 37 years old. During the War the ship operated under militaryEasily orders and Identi manyfiable times it Remainswas part of a Await Navy Task Someone Force. Sailing Who from Cares Norfolk on 28 July and after an expeditedby John passage Zimmerlee through the Panama Canal it completed loading a military cargo in Oakland, CA for delivery to Yokohama, Japan. Significantly,It was 1956. before The departing war had Captainbeen overLaRue for stopped 3 years at andOld St.family Mary’s members Church had in beenSan Francisco asked not to say to talka prayer about for itthe. 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TheMemorial port, on the Cemetery east coast of of the Korea, Pacific is about . 300in Hawaii. miles south of the Russian naval base at Vladivostok. This was in December 1950 and the port was surrounded byA approximately few years ago, 100,000 I acquired Chinese the communist forensic troops files andon theapproaches unidentified to the remains,port bybut sea more were throughrecently a heavilysomeone laid minefieldsent me the.The spreadsheet main line of the of port’s the defensegrave sites wasand a perimetertheir related 5,000 unidentified yards from the X -centerfiles. ofAll the of port a sudden, with an outpost I had theextending potential to 1,000associate yards beyond. logical The missing Command men Post with was actual located grave in a sites!!cave alongSo thehere beach. are some In ofthe my face early of overwhelming findings. enemy forces General MacArthur had issued orders to evacuate all military forces to Pusan and other ports in the south. Many thousands of North Korean refugees were pressing toward the waterfront at Hungnam, their last avenue of escape from the threat of annihilation by communist forces. Soon after arrival at Hungnam Army representatives boarded the ship, one of the last in the harbor, and advised that the final perimeter at the port was rapidly closing with the enemy attacking from one quarter to a half mile from the beach.
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