SUMMARY. AS OF6 TWO AMERICANS WHO WERE FORMERLY EMPLOYED ATII BASE WERE LIVING IN THE INTERNATIONAL REM CROSS COMPOUND IN SAICQN. THEIR NICKNAMES AND PHYSICAL DESCRIPTIONS ARG GIVEN. IM LATEHE COMMUNISTS CLAIMED THE CAPTURE OF TWO AMERICAN AND ABOUTIETNAMESE IN VUNG TAU AND SUBSEQUENTLY THE COMMUNIST AUMIOIJITIES THEREOCK TRIAL
ONE OF TUP. MEN WAS NAMED "JOHNNY" OR JIMMY" (LNIiyjIEEARS OLD,OUNDS,NCHES TALL. HE HAD CURLY DARK BROWN HAIROAT Eli, BROWN EYES, FAIR COMPLEXION, MUCH BODY HAIR, AND NOCARS. HE WORE GLASSES ANDANNERISM WHICH WAS DESCRIBED AS SHRUGGING HIS SHOULDERS OFTEN. THIS MAN WAS KNOWN TO SPEAK ONLY ENGLISH. HIS HEALTH APPEARED TO BE GOOD.
THE SECOND MAN WAS NAMED "BILL" (LNU).HE WAS IN HISS, WAS*-LESSNCHES" TALL, AND WEIGHEDOUNDS. Ill- HAD DARK BROWNUDDY COMPLEXION, AND NO NOTICEABLE MANNERISMS. IN ADDITION TO ENGLISH, HE SPOKE SOME VIETNAMESEITTLE FRENCH.
TWO AMERICANS AND ABOUTIETNAMESE HAD BEENN THE SMALLER OF TWO. MOUNTAIN AREAS NEAR BACK BEACH IN VUNC
EOMMUN1ST AUTHORITIES HAH REQUIRED
THEM TO CO TO THE CITY CENTER WHERE THEY SAW TWO AMERICANS AND ABOUTIETNAMESE TIED TOGETHER BEING MARCHED THROUGH THE STREETS. THE AUTHORITIES STATED THESE PRISONERS HAD BEEN CAPTURED IN THK SMALLER MOUNTAIN AREA, WHICH WAS PLACED OFF* '
f LIMITS BECAUSE OF THE CONTINUED PRESENCE OF RESISTANCE FORCES
PRISONERS WAS CONDUCTED IN AN OPEN BEACH AREA, AT WHICHPROSECUTORS SAID THAT ANYONE BEARING ARMS AGAINSTREGIME WOULD BE SENTENCED TO DEATH. NO PRISONERS WERE
PRESENT AT HIE TRIAL AND*NO SPECIFIC MENTION OF AMERICANS WAS MADE DURING THE TRIAL. ALTHOUGH ALL PRISONERS WERE SENTENCED TO DEATH, Mftt DID NOT KNOW WHETHER ANY OF THE AMERICANS WERE
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UTSAID*THAT ONE VIETNAMESE
BX-CQLONEL CAPTURED ON THAT OCCASION HAD BEEN KILLED.
WHETHER THE TWO CAPTURED INDIVIDUALS IDENTIFIED AS "AMERICANS" WERE ACTUALLY NON-AMERICAN CAUCASIANS CANNOT BE DETERMINED. ALTHOUGH THE COMMUNIST AUTHORITIES CLAIMED THESE "AMERICANS" WERE INVOLVED IN RESISTANCE ACTIVITIES, THEY POSSIBLY WERE MERELY IN HIDING
5. IN MAY tgpjfl] AIGON RESIDENTRIEND OF HIS TOLD OF SEEING "MANY" AMERICAN PRISONERS IN THE HANOI AREA* THE FRIEND ADDED THAT ALL OF THE PRISONERS WERE EITHER SERIOUSLY INJURED,. CRIPPLED BY WAR WOUNDS OR SUFFERING FROM MENTAL DISORDERS RELATING TO THEIR LONG IMPRISONMENT OR HARSH TREATMENT, ggjfe FRIEND,WITH WHOM HE WAS IN FREQUENT CONTACT,ORTH
WW. SAID TI,AT AMERICAN PRISONERS WERE STILL BEING HELD IN NORTH VIETNAM. THEY ALSO TOLD f| TIIAT SINCn THESE PRISONERS WERE ALL SICK OR BADLY INJURED, THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF VIETNAMVJ AUTHORITIES WERE AFRAIDOSSIBLE UNFAVORABLE IMPACT ON PUHLIC OPINION SHOULD THEY BE RELEASED.
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