We urge our new President to do everything in his power to work toward a resolution of the issue. Most relevant right now is the substantial number of live sighting reports which have come to the attention of our intelligence community and our Defense Department. Some of the refugees fleeing Vietnam have indicated that they have seen Americans in a prison camp type of situation. There are close to 300 firsthand live sighting reports which are being analyzed by our Defense Department. The report we received last year from a Vietnamese mortician withstood extensive and critical examination. leading to a conclusion that the Vietnamese were warehousing the remains of 400 Americans in Hanoi. When the Vietnamese denied us access to the site of that warehouse on our visit to Hanoi during January 1980. it gave even more credence to that report. Months later. the Vietnamese opened the site to reporters. to prove to them that no remains were being stored there. I am enclosing for the record two recent refugee reports which have surfaced. and which indicate the sincerity and interest of the Vietnamese refugees in the resolution of the MIA issue. Mr. Speaker.
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