Saturday, May 6, 1972
'Propagandizing' POWs Ire Reds
WASHINGTON (UPI) --A Teamsters union official said Thursday North Vietnamese officials told him they had stopped releasing American prisoners of war because of the "propaganda" uses made of the last three who were freed.Teamsters Vice President Harold Gibbons said the Communists indicated to him during a March visit to Hanoi that the policy could be changed and some POWs released if North Vietnam was sure that the U.S. government would not promote what Hanoi felt were propaganda tours of the men.Appearing at the same news conference, Mrs. Evelyn Grubb, Colonial Heights, Va., national coordinator of the National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia, said she was given assurances by the administration of an effort to hold down the activities of ex-POWs in the interest of possibly securing further releases."Propagandizing POWs Ire Reds", by (UPI), published in the Pacific Stars and Stripes on Saturday, May 6, 1972 and reprinted from European and Pacific Stars and Stripes, a Department of Defense publication copyright, 2002 European and Pacific Stars and Stripes.