POW/MIA News

July 27, 2018 - BBC News: Korea remains: Pyongyang returns US troops slain in Korean War - North Korea has returned remains believed to be of 55 US troops killed during the Korean War, bringing renewed hope to families who have waited decades for closure. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-44976947


May 9, 2018 - Fox News Article Regarding US and North Korea:

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/05/09/north-korea-trump-have-more-than-nukes-to-discuss-at-historic-sit-down-experts-say.html


January 19, 2018 - Bob Dole receives Congressional Gold Medal, top honor from House and Senate. Click hear to read the full article.


August 11, 2017 - Article Regarding Korean War MIA Harry Cecil Moore:

http://www.newsweek.com/america-missing-war-veterans-could-be-russia-family-648966


May 17, 2017 -- Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) still plagued with problems after reorganization, report says. Click here to learn more.


February 1, 2016 -- In the year since being established as a Defense Agency on Jan. 1, 2015, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) has accomplished a critical milestone, reaching “full operational capability” or “FOC” on Jan. 8, 2016. Click here to read "their" story on "their" success.


May 15, 2015 -- Vindication for the family of Navy Corpsman Mark V. Dennis. Family finally proves remains returned in 1966 were misidentified. Leaving in question the identity of a POW shown in a 1970 photo the family believes is Mark. Click here to read the story and watch the accompanying video.


February 28, 2015 -- DoD's Reorganization of POW/MIA Accounting Effort... Putting Lipstick on a Pig Click here to learn more.


January 22, 2015 -- The 107 identifications for 2014 by the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command came primarily from remains linked to the Korean War (42), World War II (36) and the site of a 1952 crash of an Air Force cargo plane into Mount Gannett in Alaska (17). Click here to read the Stars and Strips article on the DPAA "success" for 2014.


January 9, 2015 -- Pentagon names 1st permanent director of new POW/MIA accounting agency. Click here to learn more.


November 19, 2014 -- “Your Future Is Very Dark” Said a Chinese security officer to John Downey. Read about the incredible story of former CIA agent John T. Downey, the longest held American captive of war. Click here to learn more.


October 15, 2014 -- Families frustrated by changes to POW/MIA system. Click here to view the CBS news article regarding the failure of Governments agency to bring back the remains of our missing servicemen,


October 10, 2014 -- Governments reorganization of the POW/MIA accounting effort officially a FAILURE. Read More,... and find out what you can do.


May 22, 2014 -- Release of explosive new book "Abandoned in Place - The Men We Left Behind and the Untold Story of Operation Pocket Change the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) Planned Rescue of American POWs Held in Laos Six Years After the End of the Vietnam War." For more information visit, check out the book on Amazon.com.


March 31, 2014 -- Secretary of Defense, Chuck Hagel, announces plans to reorganize the POW/MIA Accounting Community. DOD to form a new agency consolidating DPMO, JPAC and elements of the Life Science Equipment Laboratory under this new agency. This reorganization will take 19 months to complete. For more details, click on this link to read the entire Stars and Stripes news article.


October 10, 2013 -- JPAC admits to phony ceremonies honoring ‘returning’ remains. The Department of Defense unit charged with recovering service members’ remains abroad has been holding phony “arrival ceremonies” for seven years, with an honor guard carrying flag-draped coffins off of a cargo plane as though they held the remains returning that day from old battlefields. Click here to read the Stars and Stripes article.


August 1, 2013 -- House Sub-Committee on Military Personnel and the Senate Sub-Committee on Financial and Contracting Oversight have hearings scheduled for August 1st. House hearing begins at 8 AM. Senate hearing starts at 10:30. For more on these hearings see our newsletter dated July 27, 2013.


July 7, 2013 -- Scathing internal report calls JPAC efforts to recover remains of missing servicemen "acutely dysfunctional." According to the Associated Press "The Pentagon's effort to account for tens of thousands of Americans missing in action from foreign wars is so inept, mismanaged and wasteful that it risks descending from "dysfunction to total failure," according to an internal study suppressed by military officials."

The article continues, "The report paints a picture of a Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command, a military-run group known as JPAC and headed by a two-star general, as woefully inept and even corrupt." To read the full article click here.


June 20, 2008 -- Chinese Government admits taking Korean War POWs into China.... Chinese Government names one POW.... Richard Desautels... For more click here.


June 24, 2006 -- Documents generated by an investigator for the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs (1991-1993) state Vietnamese now acknowledge captivity.... these 19 "survived into captivity." For more on the 19 New POW Cases click here