He gave in detail the altitude they were flying, the direction, if they made a turn… he gave them what primary targets the United States was interested in.” Hopper contends that the information McCain provided allowed the North Vietnamese to adjust their air-defenses. Retired Army Colonel Earl Hopper, a veteran of World War II, Korea and Vietnam, contends that the information that McCain divulged classified information North Vietnam used to hone their air defense system…McCain told his North Vietnamese captors, “highly classified information, the most important of which was the package routes, which were routes used to bomb North Vietnam. McCain divulged specific military information: he gave the name of the aircraft carrier on which he was based, the number of US pilots that had been lost, the number of aircraft in his flight formation, as well as information about the location of rescue ships… On the other hand, according to one source, McCain’s collaboration may have had very real consequences. It was not “name rank and serial number, or kill me,” as specified by the military code of conduct. They were working him.For his part, McCain acknowledges that the Vietnamese rushed him to a hospital, but denies he was given any “special medical treatment.” However….two weeks into his stay at the Vietnamese hospital, the Hanoi press began quoting him. Pacific Command Admiral McCain was in charge of all US forces in the Pacific including those fighting in Vietnam.The Admiral’s bad boy was used to special treatment and his captors knew that. While his son was held captive in Hanoi, John McCain Jr., from 1968 to 1972, was the Commander-in-Chief of U.S. McCain’s father, John Jr., and grandfather, John Sr., were both full Admirals. He promised his Vietnamese captors, “I’ll give you military information if you will take me to the hospital.”His Vietnamese capturers soon realized their POW, John Sidney McCain III, came from a well-bred line of American military elites. By McCain’s own account, after three or four days, he cracked. Initially, he was taken to the infamous Hanoi Hilton prison camp, where he was interrogated. McCain gave Michael Isikoff a peek at his debriefs, and Isikoff declared there was “nothing incriminating” in them, apart from the redactions. It was the camp that people were released from.”Guy and Larson’s claims are given credence by McCain’s vehement opposition to releasing the government’s debriefings of Vietnam War POWs. As Larson said, “My only contention with the McCain deal is that while he was at The Plantation, to the best of my knowledge and Ted’s knowledge, he was not physically abused in any way. Filed under: 2008 election, cover-up, history, interesting, McCain, news, politics, prison camps, troops, Uncategorized, war, war atrocities, war profiteering Related: More 2008 Election Posts John McCain: Prisoner of War – A First Person Account – US News & World Report from 1973, published online 1/28/08 My six years of hell: John McCain recalls life a prisoner of war in Vietnam – Daily Mail, UK 2/8/08 Excerpt from “Faith of My Fathers” by McCain “Hero” John McCain as Phony and Collaborator: What Really Happened When He Was a POW? – CounterPunch 6/13/08 EXCERPTS: “on March 25, 1999, two of his fellow POWs, Ted Guy and Gordon “Swede” Larson told the Phoenix New Times that, while they could not guarantee that McCain was not physically harmed, they doubted it.
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