On October first week, news
agencies reported that the Hanoi Communist government has agreed “in principle”
that American officials would be given access to its classified materials in
its archives to find evidence of the American servicemen who might be still
living in Vietnam. In the past three decades, there have been allegations that
a number of Americans missing in action (MIA) are still imprisoned by Hanoi
after the conclusion of prisoners exchange agreed in the Jan 27, 1973 Paris
Peace Agreement.
Furthermore,
a source from the U.S. Embassy in Hanoi disclosed that Hanoi government would
also give green light to the American side to hire its former high-ranking
intelligence officers for the task of searching secret and top secret documents
to detect information of such American MIA/POWs.
The
news might be surprising the common public who has little or no knowledge about
the Communist regime. To many Vietnamese, the agreement to give the Americans
the access to classified documents is nothing but a trick to fool the American
public and credulous people in the world.
Before
falling deeper into the trap set by Hanoi Communists, the American authorities
should take a deeper thought about the offer.
Most
Vietnamese don’t think that Hanoi Communists would give American investigators
the access to all of their archives. How could the investigators know how much
and what category of material they would be allowed to look at? How could they
know whether the papers they might get at are authentically true original
copies? And will the Americans be free
to run their research at the archives of the highest leader’s office – that of
the Party Politburo?
No
one could assure that Hanoi authorities would be so foolish as to clean their
breast that way.
It
is also too credulous to believe that Communist former high ranking
intelligence officers, who must be the absolutely faithful members of the party
to be admitted in the intelligence service, would be willing and daring to help
the Americans. Despite diplomatic rhetoric directed at the American public,
Hanoi domestic propaganda and indoctrination machines are still nursing
hostility towards the American nation.
Hanoi
Communist leaders are not the insane that would grant the Americans a free
access to information that would possibly proves its illegal incarceration of
American POWs against the Geneva Convention and the Paris Agreement?
Absolutely
not. And never ever.
Overseas
Vietnamese are seeing this as a psychological scheme to calm down anti-Hanoi
sentiment in the U.S.A. The scheme might aim at painting a better looking face
for the Hanoi Communist regime in the POW/MIA matters for long range diplomatic
purpose.
Whatever
purpose it may be, the scheme seems too hollow, childish and very contemptuous
of the American public opinion by employing a tactic so brassy and fraudulent.
There are people who welcome Hanoi ideas and blindly support it without
pondering over its impossibility.
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