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APPENDIX 4

Witnesses

Ken Albrecht: Mr. Albrecht is the President of the National Charities Information Bureau, Inc., a non-profit organization that sets standards and monitors other charitable organizations. George H. Aldrich: Mr. Aldrich was a legal advisor to the State Department (1965-81).

George Aldrich: Former legal advisor to the Department of State and was involved in the Paris Peace Accord negotiations. Author of The Interpretation of the Paris Peace Accords.

Dolores Alfond: Mrs. Alfond is the National Chairperson of the National Families Alliance. Her brother is listed as Missing in Action.

Joseph E. Andry: Mr. Andry is a former Commander of the Disabled American Veterans (1990-91).

Richard Armitage: Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense in 1982.

Thomas Ashworth: Mr. Ashworth is a Marine Corps combat veteran of the war in Vietnam, an author and speaker, and an expert in the archival resources pertaining to POWs and the missing from World War II, Korea and Indochina.

Jack Bailey: Retired Lt. Col, US Air Force. Involved in POW/MIA matters as the head of Operation Rescue.

Howard Baker: Former senator and Majority Leader from Tennessee and Chief of Staff at the White House under Pres. Reagan.

Garnett Bell: Special assistant for negotiations on POW/MIAs for commander, JTF-FA. Testified before the Committee in 11/91. Employed by JTF-FA. Currently stationed in Bangkok, Thailand.

Errol Bond: Mr. Bond was Vice-President of Support Our POW/MIAs, Inc., a tax-exempt organization that laundered money that went to support the Laotian Resistance.

Tim Brockman: Former Army Security Agency Crypto operator in 1974.

Related to Lippert deposition.

RADM Thomas Brooks: (USN, Ret.) Former supervisor of the POW/MIA office at DIA. Author of Brooks Memorandum critical of DIA published in September 1985.

John Brown: John M. G. Brown is an infantry combat veteran of the war in Vietnam, an author and a researcher who has extensive knowledge of the sources of information pertaining to American and Allied POWs and MIAs from World War I, World War II, Korea and Vietnam. Col., USAF, DoD Central Documentation Office.

Ed Brown: Mr. Brown is the Public Charities Director for the Office of the Secretary of State of South Carolina. He is responsible for all public charities registration and compliance within the state.

Zbigniew Brzezinski: Mr. Brzezinski was a member of the State Departement's Policy Planning Council (1966-68), Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs (1977-81), and a member of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (1987-91).

Dennis Buckner: Mr. Buckner contributed approximately $3000 to the failed "Team Falcon" POW rescue mission.

Larry Budge: Army General (Ret.), who was a Major during the Four Party Joint Commission.

Linda Canada: Ms. Canada is an account representative for Eberle & Associates, a professional fundraising company. Ms. Canada was responsible for the Jack Bailey/Operation Rescue account.

James Cannon: Former Assistant to former White House Chief of Staff Howard Baker.

Frank Carlucci: Former Secretary of Defense during Reagan Administration.

CPT Cynthia A. Chambers: Captain Chambers is currently an Intelligence Officer, Special Office for Prisoners of War and Missing In Action, DIA.

COL Richard T. Childress (USA, Ret.): Mr. Childress served as General Staff Officer for Asian Affairs, Department of the Army (1978-81), and as NSC Director of Asian Affairs and Political Military Affairs (1981-1989).

MG George R. Christmas: Major General Christmas is the Director for Operations, Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Command (1991- Present).

LG James R. Clapper, Jr.: Lieutenant General Clapper has served as Director for Intelligence, Headquarters, U.S. Pacific Command, and Assistant Chief of Staff, Intelligence, Headquarters, U.S. Air Force. He is currently Director of the DIA.

William Clements: Mr. Clements served as Deputy Secretary of Defense (1973-76).

COL John M. Cole: Colonel Cole is the Chief of the STONY BEACH Team (DIA), Bangkok, Thailand (1990-present) whose mission is to collect information on POWs and MIAs in Indochina. Marvin Connor: NSA Specialist - SEA Analyst. Familiar with SIGINT collection on POW/MIAs.

Jim Coyne: Mr. Coyne is a reporter formerly associated with Soldier of Fortune magazine. He has spent many years in Southeast Asia reporting on POW/MIA developments and POW/MIA hunters.

Daul:

Steve Davis: Civilian employee of electric company that maintained US military communication systems in Saigon in 1975.

LTG John R. Deane (USA, Ret): General Deane ( USA, Ret.) is a distinguished airborne infantry officer with extensive combat experience who was briefly the Director at the Defense Intelligence Agency in 1973.

Michael Deaver: Special Assistant to President, 1981.

Dieter Dengler: Mr. Dengler was a U.S. Navy aviator who was shot down in Laos and held prisoner there. He escaped after months of captivity and was rescued.

Robert DeStatte: Mr. DeStatte is a Senior Analyst with the Defense Intelligence Agency.

Lawrence Devlin: Former intelligence person in Laos, 1970-73.

Robert Dussault: Joint Staff SERA, Ft. Belvoir with information regarding documents transmitted to Committee.

Lawrence S. Eagleburger: Mr. Eagleburger served as Executive Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs (1969), Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Operations (1973), and Executive Assistant to the Secretary of State (1975- 77).

Bruce Eberle: Mr. Eberle is the President of Eberle & Associates, Inc., a professional fundraising company that prepared direct mail solicitations for Jack Bailey's Operation Rescue, and other charitable organizations.

Martha Eddy: Ms. Eddy is a live POW activist and the President of the Michigan POW/MIA Committee.

David Elder: Mr. Elder is Co-Director of American Friends Service Committee, and is responsible for programs in Laos, Kampuchea, and Vietnam.

Larry Feldman: Mr. Feldman was connected with the dissemination of the Donald Carr photographs and was present when Red McDaniel's representatives attempted to raise money for the purchase of weapons for Vang Pao.

John Fisher: Mr. Fisher is the Chairman of the Board of the American Security Counsel Foundation, a conservative organization that donated money through Support Our POW/MIA's, Inc. believing it was for a government sanctioned operation.

Jerry Friedheim: Mr. Friedheim served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs (1969-73) and Assistant Secretary of Defense (1973-75).

Robert Garwood: Mr. Garwood was a U.S. Marine enlisted man who was captured by the Viet Cong near Danang in 1965. After years of privation in primitive camps in the south, he was moved north and employed by the North Vietnamese as a mechanic. He was repatriated in 1979 and convicted by a General Court Martial for collaboration with the enemy.

Hamilton Gayden: Judge Gayden is the author of To Circle the Cross, a fictional account of an American POW imprisoned in Southeast Asia fifteen years after the signing Paris Peace Treaty.

Tim Geraghty: Retired military officer with information related to POW/MIAs.

Alisa Getzinger: Ms. Getzinger is an Account Representative for a telemarketing firm known as Infocision Management Corp. Ms. Getzinger is responsible for the Veteran of the Vietnam War, Inc. account.

Judy Gin: Translator during Garwood Trial.

G. McMurtie Godley: Mr. Godley served as U.S. Ambassador to Laos (1969-1973), and was designated Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian Affairs.

Don Gordan: Retired Army Special Operations Officer with information on Nhom Morrat.

Daniel Warren Gray: Mr. Gray is currently Chief of the Current Operations Branch, Special Office for Prisoners of War and Missing in Action, DIA.

Ann Griffiths: Mrs. Griffiths is the Executive Director of the National League of POW/MIA families. Her brother is listed as Missing in Action. She is also the only civilian member of the Interagency Group ("IAG").

James "Bo" Gritz: LTC Gritz is a highly decorated former Special Forces officer who ran failed POW rescue missions known as Operation Velvet Hammer, Operation Lazarus and Operation Grand Eagle. Mr. Gritz ran for President in 1992 on the Populist ticket.

GEN Alexander M. Haig, Jr. (USA, Ret.): General Haig served as Senior Military Advisor to Dr. Henry Kissinger (1969-73), Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, White House Chief of Staff (1973-74), and Secretary of State (1981-82).

N. Hieu:

Trong Hieu: A Vietnamese refugee from North Vietnam.

Richard Holbrooke: Mr. Holbrooke served as Staff Assistant to the American Ambassador to Saigon (1965-66), on the White House Staff, Office of the Assistant to the President for Vietnam (1966-67), and as a member of the U.S. Delegation to the Paris Peace Talks (1968- 69).

John Holdridge: Mr. Holdridge served in the State Department as Deputy Director and Director of the Office of Research and Analysis for East Asia and the Pacific (1966-68), and Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and the Pacific.

Eugene Hollis: Deputy Chief of JCRC in 1974.

Thach Hon:

J. Hugh:

Burt Hurlbut: Mr. Hurlbut is a Texas oil executive that helped raise money for Support Our POW/MIAs, Inc., a tax-exempt organization that laundered money that went to support the Laotian Resistance.

Pat Hurt: Former DIA POW/MIA Analyst, has information on Nhom Morrat.

ADM Bobby R. Inman (USN, Ret.): Admiral Inman served as Director of Naval Intelligence, Department of the Navy ((1974-76), Vice Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (1976-77), and Director of the National Security Agency (1977-81).

Bobby Inman: Retired Navy Admiral, Former Deputy Director CIA

H. Isham:

Monika Jensen-Stevenson: Mrs. Stevenson is co-author of Kiss the Boys Goodbye. The book, about American POW's in Vietnam, grew out of a story she produced in 1985 for a television news show.

Stephen T. Johnson: Mr. Johnson has served in the Department of State as a Political Officer in Saigon, Nha Trang, and Viantiane, as Vietnam Desk Officer, and as an Analyst for Indochina, Bureau of Intelligence and Research.

Helen Johnson: Former Army Security Crypto operator in 1974. Related to Lippert deposition.

Ivan Kalister: Mr. Kalister is the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agent that investigated John LeBoutillier's purchase of ten handguns intended for export to Southeast Asia.

Oleg Kalugin: Retired General of the KGB who testified before the Committee that certain KGB agents had interrogated 3 American POWs after 1973 in Vietnam.

Emmet Kay: A civilian employee of Air America who was shot down over Laos in 1973 and was a POW for over a year.

Richard Thomas Kennedy: Mr. Kennedy served as Director, Staff Planning and Coordination, NSC (1971-72) and Deputy Assistant to the President for NSC Planning (1973-75).

Patrick Khamvongsa: A former member of the Royal Lao Air Force who has been active in the Lao resistance.

GEN Robert Kingston (USA, Ret.): General Kingston is a distinguished infantry and Special Forces officer who served as the Commander of the Joint Casualty Resolution Center (1973-74).

Dr. Henry A. Kissinger: Dr. Kissinger served as National Security Advisor to President Nixon (1969), negotiating the Paris Peace Accords settlement in January, 1973. He served as Secretary of State from 1973 to 1977.

Thomas Lacy: Retired Brigadier General with information on POW/MIA.

Melvin R. Laird: Mr. Laird was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives before becoming Secretary of Defense (1969-73), and Counsellor to the President for Domestic Affairs (1973-74).

Steve Lippert: Former Army Security Agency crypto operator with information on intercepts in 1974.

Winston Lord: Mr. Lord was a member of the NSC staff (1969-73), Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs (1970-73), and Director of the State Department's Policy Planning Staff (1973-77).

LT Paul K. Maguire: Lieutenant Maguire currently serves as a Multi-Sensor Fusion Analyst, Special Office for Prisoners of War and Missing in Action, DIA. C. Murphy Martin: Mr. Martin was President of United We Stand and travelled to Vietnam to publicize the plight of American POW's.

Murphy Martin: An employee of Ross Perot.

Michael Martin:

Ronald Martin: Mr. Martin was helped to coordinate, but later disassociated himself from the failed "Team Falcon" POW rescue mission.

Bud Matthews: Lt. Col. in the U.S. Air Force attached to CDO with information regarding documents transmitted to Committee.

Bud Matthews: Already discussed. Continuation of deposition.

O. Matthews:

Robert McFarland: Former National Security Advisor in mid-80s.

Ted McGarry: Mr. McGarry coordinated the communications in the United States for the failed "Team Falcon" POW rescue mission, and was responsible for the "welcome home" when live POWs were to return.

Harry McKillop: An associate of Mr. Perot, Mr. McKillop has travelled to Vietnam on several occasions in an effort to obtain information regarding American POW/MIA's.

John McMahon: Former DDO/CIA in the early 80s with information on Nhom Morrat.

Edwin Meese: Former Attorney General of the United States under President Ronald Reagan.

Thomas Meurer: Mr. Meurer was President of United We Stand and has travelled to Vietnam seeking information on American POW/MIA's.

Paul Miles: Was a Major in Vietnam during the Four Party Joint Commission.

Karen Miller: Ms. Miller is the 1st cousin of MIA Donald Carr. She is knowledgable about the dissemination of the photographs of Gunther Deitrick which were held out to be Donald Carr.

Charles Mills: DoD Central Documentation Office civilian employee with information regarding documents transmitted to Committee.

Terry Minarcin: Former army cryptoanalyst testified before the Committee on message traffic that he allegedly saw in early 70s.

Jerry Mooney: Former Air Force cryptoanalyst currently living in Montana testified before the Committee that he decyphered several messages of movement of US POWs in early 70s.

ADM Thomas Moorer (USN, Ret.): Admiral Moorer served as Chief of Naval Operations (1967-70) and as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1970-74).

Mortician: The ethnic Chinese North Vietnamese who prepared several remains and testified before Congress that they were stored in Hanoi. Currently living in Atlanta, GA and recently spent 2-3 days at CIL-HI looking over and trying to identify remains.

ADM Daniel J. Murphy (USN, Ret.): Admiral Murphy served as Deputy Director of Central Intelligence for Intelligence Community, Central Intelligence (1976-77).

John D. Negroponte: Mr. Negroponte was a member of the U.S. Delegation to the Paris Peace Talks (1968-69) and served on the NSC Staff (1970-73).

Richard M. Nixon: President Nixon served two terms as Vice- President under Eisenhower, and won presidential elections in 1968 and 1972. He resigned the Presidency in August, 1974.

Nouvaprosite:

Edward O'Connor: Retired Major General, US Army, who was a Major during the Four Party Joint Commission.

John T. Odell: Retired NSA SEA Group Chief.

Russell Ogan: Retired USAF General, Former Director of POW/MIA Task Force 1972/1973.

Michael Oksenberg: Mr. Oskenberg served as a member of the National Security Council Staff (1976-78).

Patricia O'Grady: Dr. O'Grady has sat on the Board of Directors of the National League of Families and has written and researched extensively on the POW/MIA subject. Her father is listed as Prisoner of War.

H. Ross Perot: Mr. Perot worked for several years to improve the treatment of American POW's held in North Vietnam. He has remained very active in the POW/MIA issue, and has travelled to Southeast Asia on several occasions.

LG Leonard Perroots: Lieutenant General Perroots was Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (1985-88).

Steven Pittendrigh: Mr. Pittendrigh is a Vice President of a telemarketing firm known as Infocision Management Corp. His clients include Veterans of the Vietnam War, Inc. and John LeBoutillier/Skyhook II.

GEN Colin L. Powell: General Powell served as Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs (1987-89) and as Senior Military Assistant to the Secretary of Defense. He is currently serving his second term as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Marilyn Price: Ms. Price is President of a professional fundraising company known as The Creative Advantage. Ms. Price's clients include Veterans of the Vietnam War, Inc.

Mark S. Pratt: Mr. Pratt served in the State Department as a Political/ Military Officer in Vientiane and Laos (1963-68), on the Interagency Ad Hoc Group on Indochina (1968-73), and as a member of the U.S. delegation to the International Conference on Vietnam.

Richard Rand: Consul of US Embassy, Laos, 1973.

Elliot Richardson: Mr. Richardson served as Secretary of Defense (January - May 1973) among other positions he held in the government, such as Attorney General of the U.S.

John Robinson: Mr. Robinson is the General Manager of the Washington Intelligence Bureau, a company which provides caging and mailing services to fundraising organizations including Operation Rescue and Veterans of the Vietnam War, Inc.

COL Lawrence Robson (USAF, Ret.): Colonel Robson served as Personnel Plans Officer for POW/MIA, Military Assistance Command Vietnam, and as Deputy Chief, POW Subcommission, Four Party Joint Military Commission.

Lawrence Robson: Retired Col., US Air Force, was a Lt. Col. and the Deputy US Delegate to the PW Subcommission of the Four Party Joint Commission. Was the individual who received the nine POWs from Laos in Hanoi on March 28, 1973.

Jeff Rock:

Peter W. Rodman: Mr. Rodman was a member of the NSC staff (1969- 77) and special assistant to Dr. Henry Kissinger and then Brent Scowcroft.

William P. Rogers: Mr. Rogers served as Secretary of State (1969- 1973)

Kenneth Rush: Mr. Rush served as Deputy Secretary of Defense (1972-73) and Deputy Secretary of State (1973-74).

B.H. Russell: Retired Col., US Army, head of Four Party Joint Commission, PW subcommission.

MG Michael Ryan: Major General Ryan is Vice Director for Strategic Plans and Policy of the Joint Staff (1991-Present).

Joseph Salta: Mr. Salta is President of Response Development Corp., a professional fundraising company. Mr. Salta's clients include John LeBoutillier/Skyhook II.

Ted Sampley: Mr. Sampley is a combat veteran of the Vietnam War who was the Deputy Coordinator of the National Vietnam Veterans Coalition. He is currently Chairman of the Homecoming II Project.

Kong Sautey:

MAJ Jeannie H. Schiff: Major Schiff is Deputy Chief, Current Operations Branch, Special Office for Prisoners of War and Missing in Action, DIA.

James R. Schlesinger: Mr. Schlesinger has served as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (1973) and Secretary of Defense (1973-74).

James Schlesinger: Former Director of CIA and Sec. of Defense, 1973-1975.

Schworz:

Brent Scowcroft: Mr. Scowcroft served as Military Assistant to the President (1973-75), and Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs (1978-81).

MG Richard V. Secord (USAF, Ret.): Major General Secord served in Vietnam (1962) and Laos (1966-69), spending much of the latter period detailed to the CIA. He later headed the Southeast Asia Branch, East Asia and Pacific Region, OSD (1972).

Robert R. Sheetz: Mr. Sheetz is currently Chief of the DIA's Special Office for Prisoners of War and Missing in Action.

Patricia Sheridan: Mrs. Sheridan is the Executive Director of the Red River Valley Fighter Pilots Association in Derby, Kansas, a non-profit organization that provides scholarships to children of POW/MIA/KIA servicemen.

Michael Sherwood:

Roger E. Shields: Mr. Shields served in the Defense Department as Deputy Assistant Director for International Economic and POW/MIA Affairs (1971-77).

Roger Shields: Deputy Assistnat Secretary of Defense for Sea Affairs, Employee of the Department of Defense who was in charge of the POW/MIA task force-- office heavily involved with the POW/MIA issue.

Al Shinkle: A retired USAF intelligence officer who has been involved with POW/MIA Affairs and worked for John LaBoutier for Skyhook II. Mr. Shinkle currently lives in Thailand.

Khambang Sibounheuang: Mr. Sibounheuang, a Laotian American, is an assistant to Judge Hamilton Gayden in Nashville, TN. He has been responsible for disseminating a great deal of erroneous POW/MIA information in the U.S. He has also served as an interpreter on several failed POW/MIA rescue missions.

Frank Sieverts: Mr. Sieverts is the Special Assistant for POW/MIA Affairs, Department of State (1966-78).

Frank Sieverts: Worked for the Department of State with POW/MIA public affairs.

Mark Smith: Former green beret who was involved in the circulation of a tape purported to show live POWs.

John F. Sommer: Mr. Sommer is the Executive Director of the Washington Office of The American Legion.

Harold Sprague: DoD Central Documentation Office employee with information regarding documents transmitted to Committee.

John Stein: Retired former DDO/CIA in mid 80s.

Curtis Stern: Mr. Stern is an Account Representative for a telemarketing firm known as Infocision Management Corp. Mr. Stern is responsible for the John LeBoutillier/Skyhook II account.

William Stevenson: Correspondent and co-author of Kiss the Boys Goodbye, Mr. Stevenson won the release of a Canadian pilot from the Chinese (1957) and discovered French prisoners in Indochina several years after Dien Bien Phu.

William H. Sullivan: Mr. Sullivan served as U.S. Ambassador to Laos (1964-68), Chief of U.S. Mission to Laos (1968-69), and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs (1969-73).

Robert Sungenis: Mr. Sungenis is Chief of the Directorate of Information, Operations and Reports, Office of the Secretary of Defense (1973-92).

Robert Sungenis: A civil service employee of the Department of Defense who was in charge of casualty records. Appeared before the Committee, but barely testified. Gary Sydow: Mr. Sydow is currently Chief of the Analysis Branch, Special Office for Prisoners of War and Missing in Action, DIA.

Charley Taylor: Mr. Taylor travelled to Thailand to coordinate the communications for the failed "Team Falcon" POW rescue mission. LG Eugene Tighe: Lieutenant General Tighe was CINCPAC Chief of Intelligence (1972-73), Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (1977-81), and director of the commission that produced the critique of DIA's handling of the POW/MIA issue called "The Tighe Report.".

Eugene Tighe: Retired Lt. General U.S. Air Force, and former director of the DIA from 1977-1981-- has testified before the Committee. Also headed up the Tighe Commission which issued the Tighe report.

Bui Tin: Colonel Tin took the surrender of the South Vietnamese government in the presidential palace (30 April, 1975). He later served as editor of the Communist party newspaper Nhan Dan, but has since been expelled from the party for his criticism of the government.

Barry Toll: Former US Army enlisted person who worked at the Air Borne command post who allegedly saw certain messages on POWs in Laos and also the transfer of US POWs to East Germany.

Hugh Tovar: Former Intelligence person in Laos.

Charles Trowbridge: Mr. Trowbridge is Deputy Director of the Special Office for POW/MIA Affairs, Defense Intelligence Agency (1971-92).

Charles Trowbridge: Retired Navy Commander, for many years was Deputy Director at the DIA in their POW/MIA branch. Has testified before the Committee.

Jerry Tuttle: Admiral who was Deputy Director of DIA under General Tighe, 1979-1981.

Richard Upavong:

GEN John W. Vessey, Jr.: General Vessey served two terms as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1982-85). He is currently the Presidential Emissary to Hanoi for POW/MIA Affairs (1987- Present).

Captain Raymond Vohden: A former Navy POW who was in charge of the DoD POW/MIA branch in 1973.

Robert E. Wallace: Mr. Wallace served as Commander-in-Chief of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States (1991-92). Director of the CIA (1972-76).

Vernon Walters: Retired General, US Army. Attache to Paris who arranged Dr. Kissinger's secret meetings with the North Vietnamese, Former US Ambassador to the Attorney General.

Chuck Wells: Legislative liaison for CDO with information regarding documents transmitted to Committee.

Charles Whitehouse: DCM to Ambassador Bunker in South Vietnam in 1972-73. In late 1973, became Ambassador to Laos.

GEN John A. Wickham, Jr. (USA Ret.): General Wickham was Deputy Chief Negotiator of the U.S. Delegation to the Four Party Joint Military Commission, Republic of Vietnam (1973), and Senior Military Assistant to the Secretary of Defense (1973-76) and Chief of Staff, United States Army.

General John A. Wickam: Retired Former Chief of Staff, US Army. The Deputy US Delegate to the Four Party Joint Commission.