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...industry, which plays on the farfetched notion that there are dozens of American prisoners still being held captive in Southeast Asia or China or the former Soviet Union. The industry thrives on false leads, bogus photographs and unprovable allegations about the fate of the 2,273 U.S. servicemen still unaccounted for 17 years after the war ended. Its toxic by-products are the protracted pain of the relatives of the MIAs and continuing public confusion about the extremely remote possibility that there might be any POWs still alive in Vietnam or anywhere else...
...surge in tales of POW sightings, some of them apparently inspired by the mistaken belief that anyone offering such stories to immigration officials would be put on a quick path to the U.S. For similar reasons, a macabre trade in bones said to be the skeletons of American servicemen became a growth industry in Vietnam: the going price for a box of purported remains ranges from $1,000 to $5,000. Most of them turn out to be animal bones or the skeletons of Vietnamese...
...would never do the job" of tracking down the POWs who he became convinced were left behind. McDaniel's group has been the conduit for a number of photographs of alleged POWs that ^ have been made public recently, including the now famous picture that purports to show three U.S. servicemen standing before a background of The Pentagon says the picture shows signs of having been altered...
...bottom of the mystery. For years, the Pentagon turned over the question of missing Americans to defense-intelligence agencies more accustomed to concealing secret information than to guiding bereaved relatives through a thicket of classified and often conflicting reports. This heavy-handed approach not only angered relatives of missing servicemen but also fueled the suspicion and frustration that the MIA industry exploits...
...Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs has begun its own effort to close the books -- or open them more fully -- on the MIA issue. During a 14- month inquiry that is expected to cost $1.9 million, the committee hopes to establish whether any American servicemen are alive in Southeast Asia, as well as make recommendations for ways in which the government can improve its process for resolving unsettled cases...