Cuba - The Last Tango for Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton - Headline - Front Page News - Cuba Seventeen U.S. airmen captured during the Vietnam War may have been flown to
Cuba, held captive in a prison noted for holding political prisoners, and used
for medical experiments on torture.
We don't know for sure, because the
Obama Pentagon is balking at requests for records.
17 U.S. airmen captured during the Vietnam War and
reportedly brought to Cuba for "medical experiments in torture
techniques."
When U.S. Navy F-4 pilot Lt. Clemmie McKinney's plane was
shot down in April 1972, he was reportedly held in the Cuban compound called
Work Site Five in North Vietnam. The Department of Defense reportedly said he
was killed in the crash, but a CIA document later published included a picture
of McKinney standing next to Fidel Castro.
Lowery also reported:
More than 13 years later, on August 14, 1985, the North
Vietnamese returned Lt. McKinney's remains, reporting that he died in November
1972. However, a U.S. Army forensic anthropologist established the "time
of death as not earlier than 1975 and probably several years later."
The report speculated that he had been a guest at Havana's
Los Maristas prison, with his remains returned to Vietnam for repatriation. (We
also paid big money for the remains-delivered in stacks of green dollars to
Hanoi aboard an AF C-141 from Travis AFB, California.) Unfortunately, our
servicemen held in the Cuban POW camp near Work Site Five (Cong Truong Five),
along with those in two other Cuban run camps were never acknowledged nor
accounted for and the prisoners simply disappeared.
In 1999, during testimony before Congress, Mike Benge,
former prisoner of war (POW) and POW historian stated: "I have also
uncovered evidence of the possibility that American POWs from the Vietnam War
have been held in Los Maristas, a secret Cuban prison run by Castro's G-2
intelligence service."
American POWs describe the Cuban section of a Hanoi prison
as the Zoo. Cuba reportedly provided personnel who helped improve the Ho Chi
Minh Trail, which was used by the communists to support military attacks
against U.S. military forces in Vietnam.
The fact that we had to sue the Obama administration to get
simple answers as to whether Cuba held and tortured American POWs strongly
suggests that a cover-up is underway. The Obama administration admires Castro's
Cuba so much that even the fate of the regime's victims, even American POWs, is
of little concern.
I have a feeling that President Obama didn't raise the issue
with his friends in the Cuban regime during his visit.
