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Question: Did the us goverment renege on a $4 billion deal for the return of the p o w s in vietnam!? !?
supposed to have been secret clause in the paris peace accord !.if they did i find it shocking just to leave and forget them!.Www@QuestionHome@Com


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no, it was not part of the paris peace accord

In 1981,a Treasury Department agent, John Syphrit, was on Secret Service duty then in the White House, claims he overheard a conversation about a proposal from Hanoi to turn over a number of live POWs for $4 billion!. Four people were involved in that conversation — President Reagan, Vice President Bush, C!.I!.A!. director William Casey, and national security adviser Richard Allen!.

Allegedly, they had just emerged, with others, from a meeting on national security issues in the Oval Office, where the ransom offer had apparently come up, and the four stepped across the hall into the Roosevelt Room to discuss it further!. Syphrit and a colleague were in the room, installing some technical equipment

Other than Syphrit's claims , there were no other witnesses willing to testify, and a commitee found the claim to be untrue , and its been dismissed as false!. Currently only pow/mia groups quote it as truth, the majority of historians debunked it as a conspiracy theory with no factual basis!.

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