January,20 2001 era begins
Clinton years, see below
The Bush Administration
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The New Bush Administration
The country has been watching the Bush Administration unfold, each of us anxious for an indication of how
new policies might affect issues of importance to us.
U.S. Russia Joint Commission
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TFR Documents
The Library of Congress has upgraded their US-Russia Joint Commission on-line database to include the
most current TFR documents which have been translated into English.
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U.S. Russian Commission
Less than a month ago, the U.S.-Russia Joint Commission on POW/MIAs silently marked its ninth
anniversary.
- The Gulag Study
The original report release of this study was in April, 2000. This is a release of the
complete Gulag Study, (Gulag POW Camps) prepared by The Joint Commission Support Directorate
of the U.S. Russian Joint Commission in January 2001.
- On the Ground in Russia
By Donna Downes Knox
This article takes a look at some of the specific projects our investigators have in the works relative to
the reported transfer of American servicemen to the former Soviet Union.
Defense Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO)
U.S. Politics and the POW/MIA Issue
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Different Time, Different Plane, Same Story
By: Charlotte Busch Mitnik
The terminology “air accident” has been used many times in the past 50 or so years. You may ask the
family members of the crews still missing how many times that they heard or read those words.
Ended January,20 2001
The Clinton Administration
May, 2000
- Clinton's Memorial Day Speech
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release May 29, 2000
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
AT MEMORIAL DAY SERVICE
Arlington National Cemetery
Arlington, Virginia
11:40 A.M. EDT
May, 2000
- Comments on Clinton Memorial Day Speech
By Donna Downes Knox
The President owes the missing men and their families an open discussion of the live prisoner issue...the fact
that men who were known to be alive in enemy hands never returned; that men were known to have been taken to
China and the Soviet Union; that men have been sighted over the years in North Korea with no acceptable
explanation to the families of missing servicemen.
- Clinton Administration Policy on POW/MIAs
The Clinton Administration states a commitment to achieving the fullest possible accounting for missing American
servicemen from all recent wars.
- What is U.S. Policy with Russiaon the Full Accounting?
By Donna Downes Knox
From the March, 1999 Coalition Newsletter
The late Russian General Dmitri Volkogonov mentioned in his memoirs a 1960s KGB document that he said discussed
a plan to transfer Americans to the Soviet Union.
- U.S. Policy Toward North Korea
By Donna Downes Knox
It seems that North Korea has come to believe that there will be no real consequences attached to a failure
to cooperate on the POW/MIA accounting. They held up the repatriation of four sets of remains last spring,
which caused three recovery operations to be canceled and placed the whole recovery program in pause for a
good six months.
Section added November 29th 1999
U.S. Russia Joint Commission
Febuary, 2001
- On the Ground in Russia
By Donna Downes Knox
This article takes a look at some of the specific projects our investigators have in the works relative
to the reported transfer of American servicemen to the former Soviet Union.
- The U.S. Russian Commission
By Irene L. Mandra
DPMO is developing a plan to investigate with the Russians a number of reports that we have gotten over
the years alleging that American servicemen were sighted in Soviet prisons and labor camps. Initial work
on the plan has been completed by the U.S. Moscow office and now will be examined by JCSD analysts to
determine the sequence for follow-up inquiry.
- U.S. Russia Joint Commission's Investigation into the Reported Transfer of American POWs to the Former Soviet Union
From the March, 1999 Coalition Newsletter
By Donna Downes Knox
The Joint Commission, and its Support Directorate (JCSD), are charged with investigating the question of
whether American POWs were taken to the former Soviet bloc of countries during any of the modern wars.
- My Viewpoint on the U.S. Russian Joint Commission on POW/MIAs
By Irene L. Mandra
From the March, 1999 Coalition Newsletter
As you know from our last newsletter, we have a new U.S. side co-chair in the Joint Commission,
Major General Roland LaJoie.
Section added December 5th 1999
Defense Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO)
- Unnamed POWs
By Donna Downes Knox
We have worked for a long time to get DPMO to establish a process by which families will be informed of classified
information about POWs that are not specifically named in a given report. At last DPMO head Bob Jones has instituted
a policy whereby they have created what is being called the 'Generic File'.
- DEPARTMENT of DEFENSE Policy Regarding
The recovery and Identification of
the Remains of Missing Personnel
This policy sets forth procedures for the recovery and identification of remains of personnel missing as a
result of hostile action. The policy also outlines procedures to distinguish those individuals for whom identifiable remains cannot be recovered.
- DPMO Meets with Chinese Officials to Discuss the Full Accounting
From the March, 1999 Coalition Newsletter
At the end of January of this year, DPMO head Bob Jones took a team of specialists into China to discuss
the Korean War POW/MIA accounting effort.
Section added December 7th 1999
U.S. Politics and the POW/MIA Issue
October, 2000
- Little to Say About China
by Donna Downes Knox
Mr. Jones has asked for access to the Chinese military museum and their archives, but he reports
that there has been no response from Chinese officials.
October, 2000
- Interaction with North Korea:
Will it lead to progress in our accounting effort?
by Donna Downes Knox
Various factions in South Korea, including some opposition legislators, have objected to the unilateral
return of the long-held North Koreans. Hundreds of South Korean POWs and civilians who were kidnapped
by the North have reportedly been held against their will in North Korea for years, although North
Korea denies these allegations.
- Update on China’s Cooperation
by Donna Downes Knox
DPMO reports some progress with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) on the accounting effort. While there
is still a long road ahead, it is encouraging that a dialogue has begun. We are concerned, however, that these
initial steps forward will pass for real progress, which they are not, in and of themselves. It has been 47 years
since the end of the Korean War. This dialogue should have begun a long time ago.
- Keeping an Eye on the Process
by Donna Downes Knox
From the March, 1999 Coalition Newsletter
In January, the collective POW/MIA community was confronted with a difficult
and important situation.
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