European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 11, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes . Wednesday november 11,1992czechoslovaks reportedly held pos by the los Angeles times Washington the search for soldiers still listed As missing from the Vietnam War is being expanded to Czechoslovakia and the files of other Eastern european countries. The expansion comes As a result of in formation from a High level czechoslovak general who defected in 1968. According to a confidential memorandum prepared for the Senate select committee on pow Mia affairs the former czechoslovak general told investigators that before his defection he saw intelligence reports on at least two groups of pos. Each group numbered about 25 men and both groups passed through czechoslovak hospitals in route to soviet imprisonment the memo said. Some intelligence officials Are sceptical of the claim by former maj. Gen. Jan Sejna who now works for the defense intelligence Agency. But congressional sources said the committee plans to ask czechoslovak officials to investigate the information from Sejna who was Secretary of the czechoslovak defense Council before he defected. Sen. John f. Kerry d-mass., the committee chairman refused to comment on the claim or the memo written by two committee investigators who interviewed Sejna at the Dias Washington Headquarters oct. 21. Russia says it has remains of korean War flier Ashland by. A the family of an airman ruled on a reconnaissance Mission during the korean War said the defense department has told them that Russia acknowledges having the flier s remains. Roy Dunham of Ashland said the family received word about his brother capt. John Dunham of Easton md., during a Telephone Call Friday. A was i understand it its the first positive identification they be been Able to make of american pilots remains a a said John dunhams daughter Suzanne Fong of Holland Mich. A a they be turned Over some documents which indicated that they recovered the body of my father. In 1952.�?T�?T Dunham a 13-29 navigator died oct. 7, 1952, when his plane crashed in soviet Waters. A . Senate panel was expected to hear testimony tuesday and today from russian and , officials working together to find information on americans who fell into soviet hands during world War ii and the cold War. Heather Grimsley an assistant to the Senate select committee on pow Mia affairs said monday that the defense department was required to notify relatives if a missing persons  could come up during a hearing. Dunham was flying with the 91st strategic air coma reconnaissance so when he was shot Down. The last time Roy Dunham saw him was in Yokosuka Japan at a Navy Hospital where Roy was recovering from a Back injury. Dunham 67, said his brother told him he had finished his duty assignment in Korea and was scheduled to return to the United states As soon As he finished photo surveys of air Fields around Japan. But Dunham found out last year from his brother a naval Academy classmates that the flight was done for the National Security Agency. The soviets claimed that two of their aircraft contacted John dunhams b-29 and told its Crew to follow them to a soviet air strip. They said they shot the plane Down after the . Crew members responded with gunfire. Air Force news releases said the shooting occurred outside soviet territory but admitted that the disabled plane a crashed two Miles inside soviet  but he said that the committee plans to take a statement from the former general and that it would ask former East bloc countries to help Check Sejna a claim. The Cia has also been asked to investigate other sources said. After years of denials from Moscow russian president Boris n. Yeltsin acknowledged in a letter to the committee last summer that the soviet Union secretly imprisoned some american pos from world War ii interrogated others captured during the korean War and held at least 12 airmen shot Down on cold War spy flights during the 1950s. Yeltsin promised that Russia would cooperate in investigating the fates of missing .  admits he faked death led double life Riverside Calif. A an air Force staff sergeant who faked his death in 1987 and started a new life under an assumed  Drew 18 months in prison from a military judge monday for desertion and bigamy. James Douglas Pou 32, also received a bad conduct discharge. The punishment was handed out by judge Willard Pope after a Days testimony about pours abused childhood. It was less than that sought by the government. Pou said he deserted because he Felt guilty after heating his children. Pours Sisters and doctors in a court martial at March fab testified that pours father had badly abused him As a child. With family members and television producers looking on Pou said he knew in his last Days of Freedom in june that he was under surveillance and close to being arrested. By then his second wife had discovered his real identity and found out that he had impregnated a neighbor. She informed the air Force. A i was ready for this to happen Quot Pou said. A i was scared but i was ready. It was difficult living the Way i  in a plea bargain Pou admitted to bigamy and desertion and the government agreed to drop a count of Lar ency that was based on his first wife a collection of $500,000 in insurance Money after he was pronounced dead. It Wasny to immediately Clear what would happen to that Money. The plea agreement had called for a three year sentence and a dishonourable discharge. He could have received five years. With five months already served and time off for Good behaviour Pou could be free in less than a year. Early in the hearing Pou s three Sisters testified about his alcoholic abusive father and a psychiatrist and a psychologist testified that Pou was a victim of intolerable child abuse. Then Pou told of seeing his two toddler sons Balking at going to bed and feeling Quot an incredible rage and anger go through  the sergeant said he beat the children and awoke with feelings of guilt deciding he either had to kill himself or escape. A i just  see them finding me in the Shower with Slit wrists. I did no to want to be remembered that air Force staff sgt. James Douglas Pou is watched by a Security policeman Durini a break at his  Ai March aha Calif. Pou was sentenced to 18 months for desertion and bigamy after admitting he faked his death. Way Quot he said. Before the proceedings Pou came out on the front Steps of the courthouse and posed for pictures wearing his sergeants uniform and the red Beret of the elite Parachute Rescue team with which he served before leaving his first wife and their two sons. In addition to the attorneys representing him on the criminal charges Pou has hired an agent and an entertainment lawyer. Last december the . Supreme court ruled that state Laws barring people from profiting from crimes through Book and movie deals were unconstitutional limits on free speech. Representatives of seven television production companies seeking to buy the rights to his Story watched As Pou recounted for the judge the morning of May 12, 1987, when he set out for his daily bicycle ride in Albuquerque n.m., where he was stationed. A when i crossed the Bridge Over the Rio Grande jumped off my bicycle and crashed and fell on the ground he said. 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