ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON U.S. PRISONERS OF WAR REPORTEDLY HELD IN NORTH VIETN

Created: 7/3/1979

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SAID THAT EARLY IN THAT YEAR TMPY HAB SEEN. PCX'S WHO WERE BEING HUH AT BAT BAT IN SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM (SRV) HA SON BINH PROVINCE. (HEADQUARTERS COMMENT; THIS LOCATION WAS PREVIOUSLY MISTAKENLY IDENTIFIED AS BAT BAC. THE NUMBER. POW'SURE APPEARS EXACCERATm

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CAH BEENK AN SRV REEiiHCATiHN CAMP IN FORMER YEN BAJ RT OF iRV HOAEN SON) PROVINCE. INNE AMERICAN WAS5 CAMP Kim HAD FORMERLYOW, THIS AMERICAN, WHO HADIET.NAMi;SE WOMAN, WORKED AS PART OP THE CAMP LABOR ORCE AND HAD GREATER FREEDOM TriAM- THE FORMER SOUTH VIETNAMESE OVERWENT OFFICIALS HELD AT THIS CAMP. HE WAS NO LONGEROW AND HE APPEARED TO BE COOPERATING FREELYl THE SRV HTHORITIES. (SOURCE COMMENT: WHETHER THIS AMERICAN WAS ACTUALLY REE TO LEAVE THE SRV OR WHETHER ME WAS SIMPLY ALLOWED MORE FREE -OM SINCE HIS K'IFE COWLE BE HELDOSTAGE JS UNKNOWN.)

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