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Missing, Presumed Dead – A Must See Documentary

By Jeff “Mario” Smith, Guerilla Reporter, Task Force Omega of KY, Inc.

January 26^th in the year of our Lord 2008

The unthinkable has happened. This nation sent warriors into foreign lands in the name of Liberty, only to leave many behind in the hands of our enemies, seemingly uninterested in bringing them home. To some of us, this is not news. To most Americans, unfortunately, it is.

Many think the POW MIA issue is limited to the Vietnam War. Although it was the Vietnam War Veterans who brought it into public view, the abandonment of our warriors to our enemies has been going on throughout the entire 20th Century.

Declassified documents from the Soviet Union provided a wealth of information about the estimated 20 – 25,000 POWs abandoned to the gulags after WWII for instance. Many South Korean POWs from the Korean War have recently escaped North Korean captivity.

Lieutenant Commander Michael Scott Speicher, who is the first POW MIA in history to have his status changed, was known to be alive in Iraqi hands up to the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom, yet bureaucrats in our State Department, the Pentagon, and the DPMO have tried tirelessly to have him written off as KIA/BNR.

Marine PFC Matt Maupin, Batavia, OH, is still missing from Operation Iraqi Freedom. Where is he?

Live sighting reports are routinely dismissed by our government as they spend millions of dollars to find bones in foreign soil. Make no mistake, all POWs and MIAs need to be brought home, bones included, but don’t tell this guerilla reporter that bones are a higher priority than live sightings.

In 1991, Special Forces Combat Veteran Colonel Millard Peck resigned his post in the Pentagon requesting an immediate retirement, attaching his letter to his office door with his combat knife. Colonel Peck told how he became “painfully aware” that his position as POW MIA investigator was really that of a “cardboard cutout”, a “figurehead”, or “whipping boy” controlled by a Machiavellian group of people outside of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) whose mission it was to debunk rather than investigate.

Bill Dumas, filmmaker and nephew of Bob Dumas, a man who has dedicated his entire life to searching for his brother Roger Dumas, a Korean War POW, has put together a fantastic documentary called ”Missing, Presumed Dead”. Five Dumas brothers served on the front lines in Korea. Come to LZ Rainelle this Memorial Day weekend 2008 for a free public viewing.

“Missing, Presumed Dead” provides evidence that proves, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that our government knowingly abandoned men to communist, and now muslim, hellholes after all wars of the 20th Century, and then worked to cover up their sins. There are many other sources that provide evidence as well…

“Betrayed” by Dr. Joe Douglass

Learn the answer to the burning question of what happened to the POWs from one of the premier researchers alive today.

“The Men We Left Behind” by Sanders and Sauter

Learn of the betrayal by John McCain and John “Ho Chi” Kerry in the 92 – 93 Senate Select Committee Hearings on POWs and MIAs.

“No One Left Behind” by Amy Waters Yarsinske

Learn about the betrayal of Lt. Commander Michael Scott Speicher, whose F/A-18 was shot down on the first night of Gulf War I. It is now known that Speicher ejected and no attempt was made to rescue him, even after intelligence showed he was in the hands of Bedouin tribesmen holding his “blood chit” for a payoff.

“Kiss the Boys Goodbye” by Monika Jensen-Stephenson

How the United States betrayed its own POWs in Southeast Asia.

“The Flag Kidnapped by Red China” by Steve Kiba

Steve Kiba’s personal story of imprisonment, starvation, and torture by the Red Chinese after being shot down in North Korea.

“An Enormous Crime” by Billy Hendon and Beth Stewart

Former N.C. Congressman Bill Hendon learned about America's missing and imprisoned military members while serving in Congress. It is the definitive account of American POWs Abandoned in Southeast Asia.

“Leave No Man Behind” by Garnett “Bill” Bell with George J. Veith

Read the authoritative biography of the Vietnam POW MIA travesty by arguably the one man “on the inside” who did more than any American to find our POWs held back by the communists. Bill Bell didn’t just search on paper for our POWs, he lived in the jungles in horrid conditions, sacrificing safety, health, and family in order to do what should be done, and leave no stone unturned to find our men. Learn from this government insider how our own Washington bureaucracy destroyed any serious efforts at a full accounting and rescue of our POW MIA.

“The Angel and the Eagle” by Joe E. Milliner (Shepherdsville, KY)

Joe’s personal POW story of his time in Italian and German POW camps in WWII only to see his son William P “Billy” Milliner go off to Vietnam as a helicopter pilot, get shot down in Laos (3/6/1971), and be abandoned by his government. Billy’s file is the largest file in the POW MIA archives.

Missing, Presumed Dead
the Search for America's POWs

A true story
by Bill Dumas www.billdumas.com

This is a true story of Roger Dumas, a Korean War POW abandoned in North Korea by the U.S. Government. His brother, BOB, has spent his life searching 24/7 for Roger and uncovered a political conspiracy that abandoned over 386 POWs. His unprecedented lawsuit exposed the tragedy and forced the U.S. Army to re-classify Roger a POW.

Roger Armand Dumas was an 18-years-old infantryman when he disappeared during the early months of the Korean War. His brother, Bob, volunteered for two tours of duty in Korea to find his brother (two other brothers were also in Korea.)

The Army classified Roger KIA (killed-in-action). Shortly after the war, Roger's mother was on her death bed and begged Bob to find Roger. She was certain he was alive.

This request became Bob's singular obsession and he relentlessly engaged the government to get answers. Bob was getting very close to unraveling a profound military cover-up and intelligence agencies went to extreme lengths to thwart his investigation.

Bob discovered his brother was in fact a POW interned at the infamous Camp #5 and when the war ended, Roger, along with 387 other POWs were abandoned in order to end the war.

Bob sued the U.S. government in federal court after amassing a powerful case, including several witnesses who knew Roger in POW camp. One of these was a 17-year-old medic who treated a bad wound, which Roger sustained during his capture, with the use of maggots scooped from the latrine. Some key witnesses, after being warned by the FBI not to testify, mysteriously died before the trial began.

During this court trial Bob was tipped off by a Pentagon source that he was going to be "hit" by a government intelligence agent. Bob confronted the agent, invited him to his home and over a couple glasses of brandy won the agent over as a supporter of his cause.

Bob won the unprecedented and dramatic court case and the Army was ordered by the federal judge to reclassify Roger a POW.

This is a story of one simple man's behemoth endeavor to uncover a most tragic U.S. policy that abandoned POWs in Korea; a policy that the government made public just one and a half years ago (and was the lead network news story that day.)

Not long ago a Romanian engineer, Serban Oprica, touring North Korea encountered middle-aged Caucasian men working in a field on a collective farm. He was told by his North Korean guide that these men were POWs from the Korean War and that their country doesn't want them back.

This remarkable 45-year struggle may have a happy ending as Pentagon officials and the North Korean ambassador have given Bob hope that his search will soon be resolved. Finally, the government is ready to reveal this horrific secret of the Eisenhower administration which gave up these soldiers to put an end to a war.

This screenplay tells the story as it happened and the events, remarkable as they seem, are fully documented.

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