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Writer Accuses John Kerry of Covering Up Evidence of POWs

By AAN Staff
february 27, 2004  03:13 pm
Writer Accuses John Kerry of Covering Up Evidence of POWs
The Democratic contender's eagerness to normalize relations with Hanoi led him to suppress testimony and withhold intelligence information when he was chairman of the Senate Select Committee on P.O.W./M.I.A. Affairs, Sydney H. Schanberg writes in The Village Voice. Some veterans and relatives of missing soldiers believe that Vietnam held back American prisoners of war as a bargaining chip for war reparations. But the Kerry committee's final report, issued in 1993, said there was "no compelling evidence" proving anyone was still in captivity.
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