Word: corso
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...Philip Corso, an elderly and retired U.S. Army colonel, is anything but retiring on the subject of trust and betrayal. He marched up to Capitol Hill last week to try anew to make Congress and the nation face the fact that American soldiers had been left behind at the end of the Korean War--to die, to be executed, to be used as guinea pigs in "Nazi-style" medical experiments. Such suggestions have often been raised but rarely credited. Corso had tried to give his account to the Senate in 1992, but got nowhere. Last week, backed by newly declassified...
...almost 100,000 POWs were exchanged. But of the 10,218 Americans captured, only 3,746 were returned. The newly opened documents make public what President Eisenhower learned shortly after hostilities ended: up to 1,000 U.S. servicemen remained in communist hands. "The prisoners were sold down the river," Corso says. "We abandoned them." Documents turned up by Pentagon investigators and released by the subcommittee reveal an Administration in anguish. A memo dated Dec. 22, 1953, reports a conversation between Eisenhower and Secretary of the Army Robert Stevens concerning more than 900 U.S. prisoners who should have been returned...