John McCain in 1967. Administered to in a Hanoi, Vietnam hospital as a prisoner of war
THE TRUTH ABOUT MCCAIN’S CAPTIVITY
What has been produced and smoothly packaged and distributed as the real story of John McCain’s days in captivity is starkly removed from reality. In account after account, it begins to become all too clear why the senator from Arizona will die before allowing any of this POW/MIA information from ever being made public.
Here are some examples of what was stated by the McCain camp, and what was the truth in that situation.
Earl Hopper spent 30 years with the Army in Airborne Special Services and with Army Intelligence and he was a founding member of the National League of Families, dedicated to returning living POWs and MIAs of the Vietnam War.
He and those interviewed allege that the narrative propagated by McCain, of his five and a half years as a Prisoner of War in North Vietnam is about as far from the truth as one could possibly imagine. They allege that McCain, from the very first moments of his capture behaved as a COLLABORATOR and propaganda tool for his North Vietnamese captors.
McCain is described as engaging in no less than 30, and up to 38 anti-American propaganda broadcasts for Radio Hanoi during the period of his captivity.
Far from the image of the dedicated American “hero” sweating it out in a North Vietnamese prisoner’s “hotbox” for five and half years, McCain was observed by fellow prisoners to be receiving special treatment by his captors, who were fully aware of his father’s and grandfather’s 4-star Admiral positions with the US Navy.
Not a single contemporary captive interviewed here ever witnessed McCain’s alleged “torture” at the hands of his jailers and the consensus opinion of the other POWs in McCain’s camps was that McCain was actually NEVER tortured by the North Vietnamese.
Joe L. Jordan of the National Vietnam POW Strike Force, who was a pilot with the USN Squadron VQ-1 in Da Neng in 1967-’68 also disputed the claims made by the McCain camp that he was mistreated during his time there. In a letter to CBS News in 1997 after they aired a fawning story of the “Maverick,” Jordan decided to angrily unload by quoting sources from a 1973 issue of US News and World Report!
From: NATIONAL VIETNAM P.O.W. STRIKE FORCE
To: CBS News, 10/12/97You did not do your homework well enough on “Hanoi John” McCain…Once in captivity, he lived in relative splendor compared to his hapless cohorts who refused to denounce America on the radio and paid for their patriotism in blood, literally. Here are some other facts your sloppy journalism omitted:
(1) USAF Major Overly could not have cared for McCain’s “wounds” for very long; he collaborated and accepted early release in less than five months from shootdown.
(2) Another of McCain’s roommates “disappeared” and was not released at Homecoming I. McCain was kept in the camp for “progressives” (collaborators) and away from “reactionaries” (John Wayne types who spit in the face of their torturers). Other roommates were Day and Flynn, both of whom made propaganda broadcasts along with McCain urging pilots to return to carriers and soldiers to surrender.
(3) McCain returned from communist captivity 10 pounds heavier.
(4) Patricia O’Grady, daughter of a POW/MIA, on a visit to Hanoi to look for her father, was given a tour of the “Hanoi Hilton” prison. They showed her McCain’s cell. It had a writing desk, a large bed, a goldfish bowl, a flush toilet and a nice window of downtown Hanoi out the window.
(5) Both North Vietnamese Generals Giap and Bui Tin met with McCain in his cell. No other returned POWs reported meeting with high-ranking generals. I have a picture of McCain enjoying a large plate of food while talking to a Soviet KGB officer in the Foreign Ministry. A Soviet doctor was rushed to Hanoi to treat his wounds.
(6) In personal conversations I have had with General Bui Tin, he assured me they never touched McCain, saying that since he was the son of the CINCPACFLT Admiral, “He too important”.
(7) McCain said in 1973, he sustained his ordeal with his “love for his wife”. In a matter of months he had dumped her for a woman 1/3rd his age whose father owned the Coors Beer franchise in Phoenix. (His good friend Senator Kerry, about the same time, dumped his wife after fornicating with Jane Fonda.) McCain also has a secret “wife” in Hanoi and an illegitimate son.
(8) McCain would sit beside with army officers at a table when newly-captured pilots arrived and urged them to cooperate.
To say the least, these are not useless or moot questions. There are many good points of dispute over the accepted mythology about John McCain.
Move to the last page for the conclusion and the need for another “Truth Bill”:
Never a hero! Always a jerk!
Everyone needs to read this, I’ve said for years he was no hero, but a traitor! The President knew it and was blasted by everyone.!
I’ve heard enough about this to convince me that McCain is not a hero, if anything he is a traitor to the fellow pow’s and to the united states of America.
McCain should have been shot for treason when he returned home from Hanoi. It’s a disgrace they believed his lies and made him senator and kept him there! He should be hung now for all the high crimes and treason he has committed!!!