This is where PIP publishes its longer work: documented investigations, historical context, the experiences of families, and updates or corrections to earlier reporting.
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The families have waited long enough
Mark Sauter — Memorial Day weekend, 2016. The families of U.S. aviators lost on reconnaissance flights near the Soviet Union, China and North Korea fought for sixty years to learn what happened to men whom intelligence reports described as captured alive. This is the story of Beverly Deane Shaver, Charlotte Busch Mitnik, Terri Mumley, Gail Miney and others — and of what the U.S. government did and did not do with what it knew.
Families sue National Archives for POW/MIA records on 70th anniversary of Korean War
Washington, 24 June 2020. Family members of American POW/MIAs from the Korean War sued the National Archives and Records Administration for government records still withheld on the missing, including records on Americans known alive in enemy hands that the suit says remain withheld.
PIP in the news
A running list of outside coverage of the project’s findings and of the POW/MIA accounting controversy, with links to the original reporting.
Longer investigations of individual servicemen and country-specific leads live under Cases & Investigations. Our evidence standard is set out under Research & Sources.