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U.S. wants access to KGB archives.(Security)(Brief Article)
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VFW Magazine
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November 1, 2004
- Author:
- Dyhouse, Tim
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In an effort to determine if U.S. POWs from the Korean and Vietnam wars were held in the Soviet Union, the American in charge of searching for missing GIs says his researchers need access to the still-classified KGB archives.
"It's likely that the answers are in the KGB files; it's likely that they [the KGB] would hold these special prisoners if they were brought in the country; said Jerry D. Jennings, deputy, assistant secretary, of the Pentagon's POW/MIA Office. "I think if there were high-value prisoners, they would have taken them out [to the Soviet Union]. There have been clues; the problem is there is no hard evidence."
Jennings, who served as a CIA ...