The Kremlin is withholding
a report on American POWs

According to the November 9th issue of , "Moscow is refusing the turn over a secret KGB document suggesting captured Americans were taken to the Soviet Union in the late 1960s for 'intelligence-gathering purposes,' The Washington Times has learned."

The POW/MIA Forum has learned that Secretary of State Madeline Albright asked Russian Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov in May of this year to release the document that was discovered in January by Pentagon officials.

Prime Minister Primakov, a former KGB Chairman, denied Albright's request. The Russian government has admitted to US officials that while the intelligence document exists, the plan had not been carried out. Discovery of this document has raised hopes in the POW/MIA community that there is information respective to the fate of more than 8,000 Americans still missing from the Cold War era including the Korean War and the Vietnam War.

"The document was first mentioned in the recently published memoir of Russian historian General Dmitri Volkogonov, who died of cancer in December 1995. It was also disclosed in the general's personal papers that were donated to the Library of Congress last year," according to Washington Times account written by Bill Gertz.

Significant is the fact that Madeline Albright personally appealed to the Russian Prime Minister. In June, 1998, we could not obtain a committment from the White House that they would be raising the POW issue to the Chinese when President Clinton visited. It now appears that top Clinton administration personnel have been involved in attempting to pursuade the Russian government to turn this document over for study by US Intelligence.

The POW/MIA Forum has obtained a copy of the Russian document, donated to the Library of Congress by General Volkogonov, that pointed US officials toward Moscow. We present it here for your perusal together with a partial translation.

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