The Spy in the Hanoi Hilton

Subject: The Spy in the Hanoi Hilton

 

 

Take the time! See below for entry to the video and password.  This may be the most important 51 minutes you ever spent ref what really happened to our POWs in North Vietnam. 

 

My departed friend, Colonel Dick Dutton, the 10 ^th Commandant of the USAF Special Operations School on Hurlburt Field (two before me) is shown in a portrait at the 16:00 min mark. 

He is the photo on the left (w/ flattop/crewcut) and was an F-105 Thunderchief pilot shot down over the North. 

 

Son Tay starts at about 32:00 (and, as most of you know, disregard the UH-1 “Huey” mass flying shots- for those were  not the helos used in the Son Tay Rescue attempt.) 

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I was honored to have as my Commandant, RADM Jeremiah “Jerry” Denton when I was a student at the Armed Forces Staff College (AFSC), Norfolk, VA (Jan-Jun 1977). I met him in his office and he signed two copies of his book for me…” When Hell Was in Session.” I’ll never forget that he spoke with a gravelly voice because the North Vietnamese had beat him severely and often in the throat with a pipe! 

 

At AFSC I had a POW, then Major (later Col, USAF, Ret) Larry Carrigan, F-4 pilot, as a friend and seminar mate. He told me then that the  POWs had a way of getting info out but that he would NOT disclose how (just as he should have said at the time) for that was  highly classified. Now I understand why! WATCH this film to see how it was done. This is “closure” for me as I always wondered just HOW they did it. 

 

Today the term “HERO” is loosely used by the media for sports personalities and so many others that truly do NOT deserve what the TRUE heroes in this 51-minute video endured for so long. 

 

This film is so informative I know that you will not be disappointed. 

 

God Bless our POWs.   

 

Dick Brauer , Col, USAF (Ret) 

 

 

This is 50 minutes long but well worth the time to watch. 

 

 

    https://vimeo.com/user32618373/review/124635885/cac76f8ca9

 

 

 Password: hanoi (all lower case)