Thursday, November 12, 1992
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U.S. POWs still living in Russia, Yeltsin says
Document reveals post World War II camps, defections
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Russian President Boris Yeltsin told U.S. senators yesterday in a letter that Americans were held in prison camps after World War II and some were "summarily executed" but that others still lived in his country voluntarily.
Russian leaders are almost certain no Americans are still being detained, Yeltsin said in his letter, read to a Senate committee by the general who serves as Russian head of a U.S.-Russian commission searching for U.S. POWs and MIAs.
Yeltsin's letter also said some Americans had been forced to renounce
Gen. Dmitri Volkovogon told the Senate Committee on POW-MIA Affairs that he has pored through Russian archives but has so far found no evidence that any Americans captured in the Korean or Vietnam wars were taken to the former Soviet Union. He said he was aware only of nine U.S. servicemen who deserted in the Vietnam War and went to the former Soviet Union.
He said, however, that hypothetically they could not dismiss the possibility that Americans were taken from Vietnam to the Soviet Union, but they had no precise information about any specific cases. But it is a possibility and I think not a very strong possibility, he said.
Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass, charpier of the committee, characterized
as revelations the Russians' acknowledgments that Americans held after World War II were forced to renounce their citizenship, that some were killed and some still lived in the former Soviet Union voluntarily.
"They will be talked to, and asked whether they want to come home," Kerry said, adding that the list of names and addresses that Volkogonov delivered to the committee would be made public.
Last August, Vikolovogon signed a statement printed in a Soviet newspaper which said several dozen Americans were jailed by Secret secret police during and after World War II and that one of them was executed on orders of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin. The statement said most were forced to renounce their citizenship. Two American trapped in the US military over the past decade were ordered by an Associated Press reporter shortly thereafter.
In answer to a reporter's question yesterday, Volkogonov said through a translator that 119 Americans were held in Soviet camps after World War II. He did not say how many were executed or how many were still living in the former Soviet Union.
Committee aides did not immediately make available any of the information that Volkogonov turned over to the panel.
Kerry also said it was too early to say definitively whether any Americans captured in Korea or Vietnam were later taken to the former Soviet Union.
"I think you have to go through this process considerably further before you start making judgments" he said.
The committee is finishing its work and plans to issue a report in mid-December before it goes out of existence at the end of the year. Some committees planned to visit Attack-Abbey.
Yeltsin's letter said that the U.S. Russian commission had found traces of American's stay in camps and prisons of the former U.S.S.R. and had discovered shocking facts of some of them summarily executed by the Stalin regime and in a number of cases being forced to renounce U.S. citizenship.
Although some still live in the former Soviet Union, he said that as a result of the work done one might conclude that today, there are no Americans forcibly on the territory of Russia. But he added that all Americans have answered and there were cases that still required additional examination.
Volkogonov testified that Russian officials have appealed through mass media as part of the search for any Americans being held against their will, but no one has come forward.
He also said a group of Americans was living in Russia whom he described as political refugees from the U.S.S.R. period or individuals voluntarily remaining in Russia.
He said the commission had been more successful uncovering information about Americans in the former Soviet Union during and after World War II than in getting information on U.S. citizens missing during the Vietnam or Korean wars.
He also told the committee that while the commission has made progress, "in all honesty they must point out that everyone in the new Russia is not of the same mind on the issues faced by our commission. Unfortunately there are still those among us who are locked into the old way of thinking."
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