15 JUNE REPORT ON POW SITUATION

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 00146093
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 17, 2024
• Document Release Date: January 15, 1983
• Publication Date: June 15, 1953

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.5y33JECT t � 15 .7urfo :Report on POW Situation
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� ��.1. The following parlgraphs summarize the highlights of tha report
Of the Ad Hoc Committee which monitored the processing of 23 repatriated
POWs at Valley "Forge General Hospital. This report bas been submitted
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Consideration in OSD. � V�
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*2.1 The reliort is ba7s-ed on detailed study of 20 of the 23 cases. It
concludes that; . � �� .J
� a. The Communists did not. employ sinister techniques such as
. drugs, seru.rus, etc., but straight propaga.nda. indoctrination.
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. b. An. 20 POWs collaborated with. the Communists -- some will-
1ngly; b.. few under duress...
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c. Inve are convinced Communists v,�ho can never be reclaimed;
five are only slightly indoctrinated and can probably be reclaimed; the
remaining, ten axe somewhere in bfrtween, and their future is uncertain.
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� d. In all cases the lack of stabilizing, Ws such as family, re-
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..or social groups -- seemed. to be a factor.
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e.: Th�ntire group Vasa Ctre.r.i.Lity tsticct=1 by the Corr-ntuatets
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geographic representation. �� . � � .
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f. There is evidence of pocsible treasonable activity by E0:712 of
� the 20 ir.dividuels involved. (0-2. .A...rmy,. will take appropriate action-
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g. There is no means of determining the adverse mental effects �
-.�-ofoctrination, if any. � � � � .
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� Ii. The bast remedy watild seem to be restoration to gioup life,--
.: particularly hoMe and family. ��
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The report'recommenied that:
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a. In. the future, water transportation rather than airplanes be
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used for the return of repatniated POWs, and that the ships be pro-
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vxdcd with adequate screening and observation. facilities. .
12. There be no eezregation of any groups in the future, and all
screening be done as part of the normal processing of repatriated '
POWs. a�
C. Repatriates should be returned to normal American life at
the eoonest possible moment after- their return to military control.
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4. Futurte repatriation pro� gram's be con�duc'titd. by a central op-
erational group. �
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. e. Legislition be sought to make all repatriates subject to Mai-
. tary Law one year after the date bf their release from military con-
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4. 'Of these five recommendations, the Army concurred.in the first
three, but non-concurred in the last two fox; the following reasons: �
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. a. The present departmental. orzaniiation is adequate to conduct
future repatriation programs..
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� b. Under the present Code of Military Justice, the recommended
legislation is unnecessary. �
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