Excerpt from Pows/Mias; Missing Pieces of the Puzzle: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session, July 14 and 22, 1993 In 1979, long before anybody, before the Soviet Union collapsed and anybody knew that somebody would by accident stumble upon a document like this, a Vietnamese Communist defector named Le Ding who defected to France told the Defense Intelligence Agency after it has been published in French newspapers that in the mid l97o's his colleagues had spoken of holding 700 American prisoners as a strategic bargaining asset. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.