REPORTS OF U.S. POWS IN FORMER USSR DENIED

Created: 6/18/1992

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[Text] Reports on the transfer of American POW to

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are still alive. What is the truth? Our radio provides to you more details.

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This is the second time such new* coverage has been spread to deny positive efforts token by Vietnam in the settlement to the American servicemen missing in action in the Vietnam war. First time, it appeared in tho former Soviet Union and the second time in Washington. But both of them were rebutted by political circles in the former Soviet Union and the UnitedEXT:

THB WASHINGTONn its latest) issue reported that the Central Intelligence Agejncy, CIA, rejected the news and said that they have kept no profiles showing that American prisoners of war in Vietnam were transferred to the former Soviet Union or still alive. The spokesman for the Russian Embassy in Washington on Wednesday denied tbe news and said that it did not hold that any American prisoners of war were sent to his country and that this isEXT;

In his recent visit to Vietnam, American Senator John Kerry who was heading an American Senate delegation affirmed that there was no evidence on American prisoners of war still being kept in Vietnam or still alive. Heemark out of his tour of some live sighting places in Vietnam. So that was theTEXT:

A Vietnamese Foreign Ministry spokesman on Wednesday, once again, affined that Vietnam did not send to the former Soviet Union any Americans either people who had surrendered of their own accord or people who were deserters or prisoners ofEXT:

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