POW/MIA Accounting

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxxii

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2. Authorization, Policy, Implementation, and Oversight

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   Pages 1-55

3. The Accounting Program: Locate, Recover, Identify, and Return

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   Pages 57-100

4. Political Interference with Science

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   Pages 101-140

5. Exploitation of the Missing

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   Pages 141-180

6. Accounting for the Korean War Missing

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   Pages 181-214

7. To Moscow via Stockholm and Helsinki

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   Pages 215-277

8. Pentagon Briefing, Lunch with a KGB General

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   Pages 279-296

9. Congressional and DoD Action

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   Pages 297-321

10. Russia’s Involvement in POW/MIA Affairs

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    Pages 323-352

11. US-Russia Joint Commission on POW/MIAs

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    Pages 353-463

12. Archive Research Follow-On Project

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    Pages 465-562

13. Final Project Briefing and RAND Report Published

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    Pages 563-589

14. Moscow, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Ukraine, and East Germany

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    Pages 591-732

15. “Evil Creeps,” Conspiracy Theorists, and DPMO’s Activities

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    Pages 733-812

16. Findings and Conclusions

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    Pages 813-863

17. Back Matter

    Pages 865-882

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This book is an insider’s account of the search for missing American servicemen who became trapped in the Soviet Union and the US government’s efforts to free them or discover their fates. The book, which is based on years of  work as a consultant to the US government, includes archive research that took place in Russia and four other republics of the Soviet Union as the USSR broke apart. Volume I explores the history of missing American servicemen, with particular emphasis on thousands who were not accounted for during the Korean War and Cold War era.  As US relations with Russia and North Korea become more intense, this book is an extremely timely resource for scholars, laymen, and policymakers.

• Cold War History
• Military History
• POW-MIA
• Great Power Politics
• Post-Soviet History
• russian and post-soviet politics

• Nashville, TN, USA

  Paul M. Cole

Paul M. Cole, an independent scholar with rich experience in the US Department of Defense, is an established figure in the POW/MIA Accounting Community. The leak of his internal report on malfeasance in the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command resulted in two Congressional hearings, two major Associated Press stories and front-page stories in many countries around the world resulting in a comprehensive reorganization of the POW/MIA Accounting Community. Dr. Cole’s three-volume RAND report, POW/MIA Issues (1994), was purchased by thousands of individuals, research institutions and university libraries. 
 
Dr. Cole received a PhD from the Johns Hopkins Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, MSFS from the Georgetown University Edmund A. Walsh Graduate School of Foreign Service, and a B.A. from Gustavus Adolphus College.   

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