On National POW/MIA Recognition Day, the POW Investigative Project announced it has expanded its search for evidence on Americans held after the Korean, Cold and Vietnam Wars using artificial intelligence.
An intelligence report here, a loss location there, a physical description, an unnamed prisoner. Machine research now correlates the whole record at once — a million pages at the Library of Congress, our own declassification work, foreign archives and the non-English internet.
PIP President and Founder Mark Sauter remembers Capt. Eugene “Red” McDaniel, the abused Hanoi POW who volunteered to go with him to Pyongyang in the 1990s.
Outside coverage of the project’s findings and of the POW/MIA accounting controversy, with links to the original reporting.
Family members of American POW/MIAs from the Korean War sued the National Archives for records still withheld on the missing, including Americans known alive in enemy hands but never released.
The families of U.S. aviators lost on Cold War reconnaissance flights fought for sixty years to learn what happened to men whom intelligence reports described as captured alive.
