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REF: IR 6918 5058 73, 9 JUN 73, SUBJECT: INFORMATION CONCERNING U.S. PW'S.

1. REFERENCED REPORT PROVIDES INFORMATION OF URGENT POLITICAL SENSITIVITY, ADDITIONAL INFORMATION IS NEEDED IN ORDER TO IDENTIFY THE SIX AMERICANS REPORTEDLY HELD IN QUANG NGAI PROVINCE IN EARLY 1973.

2. ANALYSIS OF THE DESCRIPTIVE DATA OF THE "AMERICAN CAPTAIN" HAS PRODUCED TWO CANDIDATES, ALTHOUGH NEITHER INDIVIDUAL FITS THE DESCRIPTION PERFECTLY, BOTH HAVE ENOUGH OF THE REPORTED CHARACTERISTICS THAT THEIR PHOTOGRAPHS SHOULD BE SHOWN TO THE SOURCE. THE TWO INDIVIDUALS ARE M133 (MCDONNELL, J. T. CPT# USA) AND TUBBS, GLEN E., SGT. PHOTO M133 IS ON PAGE A-390 WHILE [BLANK] IS ON PAGE A-432 OF VOL I OF DIA PRISONERS OF WAR AND MISSING IN ACTION IN SEA (DI-367-2-72), BOTH FAMILIES ARE BEING INTERVIEWED TO DETERMINE WHAT TATTOOS AND SCARS THE INDIVIDUALS MAY HAVE HAD. TUBBS IS KNOWN TO HAVE HAD ONE TATTOO. IT IS NOT KNOWN WHETHER CPT MCDONNELL HAD TATTOOS. [BLACKED OUT] FITS CPT MCDONNELL. IT IS NOT KNOWN IF TUBBS HAD A SIMILAR SCAR.

3. INFORMATION ON THE FIVE NCO'S FORWARDED IN THE ABOVE REPORT IS NOT SUFFICIENT TO ATTEMPT TO IDENTIFY THESE INDIVIDUALS, SOURCE STATES THAT HE OBSERVED THEM BUT DOES NOT SAY WHEN. WERE THESE FIVE IN THE CAMP EVERY TIME HE WAS THERE? WERE THERE ANY NEGROES IN THE GROUP?

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4. DOES THE SOURCE KNOW IF THE CAPTAIN AND THE OTHER FIVE - AMERICANS PERFORMED ANY ADDITIONAL DUTIES FOR THE VIETNAMESE? IF SO, WHAT WERE THESE DUTIES?

5. DID SOURCE INDICATE WHEN AND HOW THEY PLANNED TO RELEASE THE AMERICANS? DOES SOURCE HAVE A FEELING WHEN THESE AMERICANS WOULD BE MOVED TO HANOI.

6. REQUEST THAT ALL PW-RELATED INFORMATION RECEIVED FROM SOURCE BE FORWARDED TO THIS OFFICE AND INFO ADDRESSES UPON RECEIPT.

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