CAMBODIA: UNITED STATES TROOPS VISITED BY NEWSMEN FIVE MONTHS AFTER CAPTURE.

Record ID: 337104

  • Title: CAMBODIA: UNITED STATES TROOPS VISITED BY NEWSMEN FIVE MONTHS AFTER CAPTURE.
  • Date: 8th November 1968
  • Summary: REPORTERS WITH DETAINEES; INTERVIEW WITH KLAUS ZUPP, A SOLDIER FROM NEW YORK. (SOF). TRANSCRIPT: REPORTER: "WHERE ARE YOU FROM?" ZUPP: "NEW YORK." REPORTERS: "HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN IN THE STATES?" ZUPP: "TEN YEARS." REPORTER: "AND IN VIETNAM?" ZUPP: "ABOUT FIVE MONTHS." REPORTER: "WERE YOU ON DECK WHEN
  • Embargoed: 23rd November 1968 13:00
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  • Location: PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA
  • Country: Cambodia
  • Reuters ID: LVAC5KHXWDX6LYQ723O2UE4L0WCV
  • Story Text: ELEVEN UNITED STATES SOLDIERS, CAPTURED BY CAMBODIAN FORCES IN JULY AFTER AN ALLEGED BORDER VIOLATION, WERE VISITED THIS WEEK BY A GROUP OF REPORTERS AND CAMERAMEN AND PERMITTED TO GIVE A NEWS CONFERENCE.

    THE TROOPS WERE DETAINED WHEN THEIR LANDING CRAFT WAS INTERCEPTED IN THE MEKONG DELTA. AN AMERICAN REPORTER AMONG THE PARTY TO VISIT THE SOLDIERS SAID CAMBODIA HAD PROMISED TO RELEASE THE MEN WHEN THE UNITED STATES RECOGNISED CAMBODIA'S BORDERS.

    REPORTERS SAID THE DETAINEES APPEARED TO BE IN GOOD HEALTH AND SPIRITS. THEY WERE TREATED AS DETAINEES RATHER THAN PRISONERS.

    ONE OF THE PRISONERS INTERVIEWED BY REPORTERS WAS KLAUS ZUPP, OF NEW YORK. ZUPP, GERMAN-BORN, LIVED IN AMERICA FOR TEN YEARS.
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