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Manuscript/Mixed Material IIR 1 512 0218 90/UNDERGROUND DETENTION FACILITY FOR U.S. PW'S IN NORTH VIETNAM

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Title

  • IIR 1 512 0218 90/UNDERGROUND DETENTION FACILITY FOR U.S. PW'S IN NORTH VIETNAM

Online Format

  • pdf

Document Id

  • PWMASTER_117451

Date of Report

  • June 21, 1990

Date Time Group

  • 210100ZJUN90

Date of Information

  • May 1, 1972

Originator

  • DET 32 PSAA SEOUL KOR

Source Number

Comments

  • THE SOURCE WAS A VIETNAMESE, TRAINED TO BE A PUBLIC PROSECUTOR, FIRED FROM HIS POST FOR MARRYING A CHINESE WOMAN. THEY MOVED TO SOUTH KOREA. THE SOURCE VISITED AN UNDERGROUND DETENTION FACILITY SOME 20 MILES WEST OF SON TAY CITY. THE FACILITY WAS SOME 25 FEET UNDERGROUND. IT HELD APPROXIMATELY 200 U.S. SERVICEMEN, MOSTLY PILOTS, 5 MEN TO A CELL WITH IRON-BAR DOORS. THE MEN WERE MAINLY CAUCASIANS, BUT THERE WERE ALSO SOME BLACKS.

Country

  • North Vietnam, pre-1975

Keywords

  • PRISON

Category

  • Source Report

Reel

  • PDS5

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IIR 1 51290/UNDERGROUND DETENTION FACILITY FOR U.S. PW'S IN NORTH VIETNAM. 1990. Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://www.loc.gov/item/powmia/pwmaster_117451/.

APA citation style:

(1990) IIR 1 51290/UNDERGROUND DETENTION FACILITY FOR U.S. PW'S IN NORTH VIETNAM. [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/powmia/pwmaster_117451/.

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IIR 1 51290/UNDERGROUND DETENTION FACILITY FOR U.S. PW'S IN NORTH VIETNAM. 1990. Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/powmia/pwmaster_117451/>.