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DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
STAFF COMMUNICATIONS DIVISION
11 JUL 1973
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SUBJ: ID OF US POW-MIA (C)
1. (C) REFERENCE YOUR MSG 1521232 JUN 73, MICLO STAFF AGAIN DEBRIEFED RALLIER [NAME] REFERENCE IDENTIFICATION OF AMERICAN POW FNU/LNU CPT, ARTILLERY, UNDER THREAT OF DEATH TEACHING USE OF 105MM HOWITZER TO NVA/VC NUNIT IN BA-TO AREA. RALLIER WAS SHOWN PHOTO BOOK WITH EMPHASIS PLACED ON PAGES NEAR PHOTOS (M133-T046) WHICH YOU BELIEVE TO BE POW IN QUESTION. RALLIER ON TWO OCCASIONS SELECTED PHOTO L035 PAGE A391, AS CLOSELY RESEMBLING THE AMERICAN HE SPOKE TO PRIOR TO RALLYING GVN. HE STATED POW HAS GREY OR LIGHT HAIR BUT FACIAL FEATURES IN L035 CLOSELY RESEMBLE POW IN QUESTION.
2. (C) REFERENCE YOUR PARA 3, SOURCE CAUGHT ONLY A GLIMPSE OF NCOS ON EACH TRIP TO PW CAMP AND DOES NOT REMEMBER AND CAN GIVE NO DETAILS ABOUT THEM, HE FURTHER STATED THERE WERE NO NEGROES IN THE GROUP.
3. (C) REFERENCE YOUR PARA 4: SOURCE STATES ONLY ADDITIONAL DUTIES POS HAD WAS TO GROW THEIR OWN FOOD EXCEPT FOR CAPTAION TEACHING 105 MM HOWITZER.
4. (C) REFERENCE YOUR PARA (NFI) 5.
5. THIS OFFICE WITH ARVN ASSISTANCE ATTEMPTING TO SURFACE OTHER SOURCES FROM BA-TO AREA AT THIS TIME. WILL ADVISE AS INFO BECOMES AVAILABLE.
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REGRADED UNCLASSIFIED
ON 30 APR 1997
BY CDR USAINSCOM F01/PO
AUTH PARA 1-603 DOD 5200, 1P
OACSI Comment: Photo #L035 is of LTC Carter Luna, USAF, lost 10 Mar 69 over Laos (XD 028815). For source to have seen Luna in grid square BS, the PW would have had to have been moved several hundred KM SE from his loss location- something which experience has shown was simply not done. Photo of McDonnell in DIA photo book does not resemble photos in OACSI files but does have similarities with LTC Luna's photo. OACSI is sending additional photos of McDonnell and Tubbs (another Army candidate) to USDAO Saigon for possible ID by source.
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MAJ. C.W. WATSON, GS