Silent Treatment: My Four-Decade Fight to Report the Truth (Background) (Essay‪)‬

FROM THE BEGINNING, nearly 40 years ago, the evidence was in plain sight. For reasons unexplained, however, the mainstream press did not acknowledge it and has continued to ignore it to this day. I'm referring to the evidence that North Vietnam--after the peace treaty had been signed on Jan. 27, 1973 in Paris--held back hundreds of American prisoners, keeping them as bargaining chips to ensure getting Washington's promised $3.25 billion in war reparations. The funds were never delivered, and the prisoners were never released. Both sides insisted to their people and the world that all POWs had been returned, challenging the voluminous body of facts to the contrary.