U.S. Gives Up Papers to Aid Hanoi’s Search
A high-level U.S. delegation on Friday handed over documents seized from the North Vietnamese to help Hanoi search for its 300,000 soldiers missing from the Vietnam War.
The gesture was also meant to win Vietnamese assurances of continued good-faith efforts to locate missing U.S. servicemen.
The microfilmed documents turned over Friday consisted mostly of North Vietnamese materials ranging from battle plans to personal diaries. American officials said they were part of a collection taken by U.S. forces from 1965 to 1973.
The group arrived Thursday to assess Vietnamese cooperation in the search for Americans.
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