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Castro’s Torture of American POWs in Vietnam

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Editors’ note: Last Friday, Sept. 21, 2018, our nation, led by our president, solemnly marked National POW/MIA Recognition Day, during which we honored all American prisoners of war and expressed our deep gratitude and respect for what they endured and — as empirical evidence suggests — in some cases may very well be continuing to endure. Indeed, we pay tribute to those who never returned — and, of course, also to their suffering families. In honor of this sacred day, Frontpage has deemed it important to run Jamie Glazov’s article, Castro’s Torture of American POWs in Vietnam from Breitbart’s Dec. 8, 2016 issue. We hope that our leadership and citizens will take serious action on this issue. We will always remember and we will never forget.

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Castro’s Torture of American POWs in Vietnam.
By Jamie Glazov

The death of communist tyrant Fidel Castro has yielded much-deserved coverage of the monstrous nature of his tyrannical rule.

What has gone virtually unreported, however, is the direct and instrumental role Castro played in the torture and murder of American POWs in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. The story of Castro’s atrocities against American soldiers in this conflict is rarely ever told, least of all by our mainstream media.

During the Vietnam War, Castro sent a gang of his henchmen to run the “Cuban Program” at the Cu Loc POW camp in Hanoi, which became known as “the Zoo.” As Stuart Rochester and Frederick Kiley have documented in their book Honor Bound in a chapter entitled “The Zoo, 1967–1969: The Cuban Program and Other Atrocities,” one of the primary objectives of this “program” was to determine how much physical and psychological agony a human being could withstand.

Castro selected American POWs as his guinea pigs. A Cuban nicknamed “Fidel,” the main torturer at the Zoo, initiated his own personal reign of terror. He was described in documents based on POW debriefings as “a professional who was trained in psychology and prison control in Russia or Europe.”

Among Fidel’s torture techniques were beatings and whippings over every part of his victims’ bodies, without remission.  more

6 Comments on Castro’s Torture of American POWs in Vietnam

  1. “Today, some evidence suggests that some of the Cuban Program torturers may be living in the United States. The investigations and pursuits of these monsters continues…”

    …and may get results now that McCain is dead and can no longer obstruct and derail POW/MIA investigations.

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  2. Perhaps if the Red wave happens in November one of the first things that President Trump should do is send an open letter to Cuba and let them know that we expect ALL files and the current locations of any and all surviving members who tortured and killed our Armed Forces personnel in Vietnam MUST be handed over to our Investigators prior to the end of the year (NO FBI or CIA please, they have been compromised).

    If we do not have those files prior to 01JAN19 then the sanctions are back on, and oh by the way get ready because your little island had better own up or it will be TRUMPED.

    MSG Grumpy

    PS – Any and all US citizens who are identified in these files as someone who either supported or helped the Castro regime torture or kill our men, or helped cover up or hide the truth of these activities from their fellow countrymen – then these citizens should be given every opportunity to defend themselves before the firing squad warms up.

    Or be nice and let them go through a week of the torture that our solders suffered for years. Either one

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  3. THIRD

    the 2 most strident, violent men against MIA/POW investigations were both progressives named GEORGE. Both Presidents believing , as they both plainly still do – if you heard GWB attack Don at your guy’s funeral, in the New World Order. therefore they worked hard ton”NORMALIZE” relations with all Communist regimes, including Nam.

    Full disclosure. – I have been a supporter of Ross Perot’s efforts to get at the truth on POW/MIA for over 40 years! I do have “a dog in this fight”!

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