1972 USS Kittyhawk Cruise Book

---The U.S. has established a "buy out" policy with Hanoi and a hush
money policy with some MIA families who have caught the U.S. government in a
lie. One such case is that of Lt. Clemie McKinney, a black American, who
went missing on April 14, 1972. Hanoi returned his remains on August 14,
1985 but the U.S. CIL-HI office did not identify the remains until February
1988. The MIA family found in the records of CIL-HI a statement by
anthropologists that, "the date of death was after 1975", so the MIA family
sued and won an out of court settlement for $350,000.00 as hush money-they
were required to sign a non-disclosure agreement, with DIA.

  Thus, if an MIA family can establish that the DIA or military service
told them that there love one dead in combat action and later the U.S.
government produces records that the MIA was in fact alive, in captivity,
there are legal grounds and a legal president set to obtain some of the "buy
out" or hush money. Although the payment of money to an MIA family will not
bring back to life an MIA who died while in captivity it will allow the MIA
families to be compensated for the pain and suffering they were put through
by their own government-who lied to them. Nothing can compensate for the
loss of a love one but be it made clear known that the U.S. government has
set in motion a plan to buy its way out of the POW/MIA quagmire.

Cuban Accountability

.... More than 13 years later, on August 14, 1985, the North Vietnamese returned Lt. McKinney’s remains, reporting that he died in November 1972. However, a U.S, Army forensic anthropologist established the “time of death as not earlier than 1975 and probably several years later.” The report speculated that he had been a guest at Havana’s Los Maristas prison, with his remains returned to Vietnam for repatriation

Subject: Cuban Accountability
From: "David E. Lovelady" 
Date: 5/4/2015 7:45 AM

Captain,

Temporarily, I'm appending your comments to both bios.  I need to get some paperwork out of storage from the late 70's/early 80's before "correcting."

I keep running into archived notes that indicate the information listed may have been in  original USG documents. If that is the case, will leave your note and the original information as we have done many times to show the many times the USG had faulty information in incident reports esp as some notes indicate their loss was originally mixed with another incident.  If it is indeed a typo, will get it corrected.

Thank you.

06/06/2017

I will be attaching the information and your note to the bios.... but please see attached  1 of 4   for the information gleaned from numerous old USG/DoD data reports.  If by chance, both names are not shown, the 2nd name was not mentioned in that document set.
 

Hope it helps show how hard it was/is to get accurate info from USG files on this issue. Decades ago,  incident reports were read over the phone to members of the Last Firebase writing the bios . Families later confirmed what was noted in bios, was what they found in loved one's incident reports. Those reports have never been received in writing by anyone other than family members.

Mary

Actual document segments

Dear Ms. Schantag,

I’ve had a look at the documents you sent to me on Tuesday, June 6, as attachments to four messages. Below are the results of my analysis.

1. A document in set 1, entitled “U.S. Citizens … Captured, Missing, Detained etc. DIA PW/MIA Branch,” reports Joe Greenleaf and Clemmie McKinney lost over water adjacent to South Vietnam, as do your bios. According to Google Earth, however, the latitude and longitude reported in that document, 16 40’ 56”N, 106 59’56”E,  is more than 16  miles inland from the coast. The contradiction is therefore evident from the face of the DIA document.

2. The same document Identifies Joe and Clemmie as USN personnel, but reports them lost while flying the E model of the F-4 Phantom, as do your bios. But the E model was operated only by USAF. The Navy owned and operated only the B and J models of the A/C in 1972, and the air wing of which Joe and Clemmie were members, CAG-11, flew only the J model on that deployment.  A document in set 4, entitled “POWS/MIAS,” correctly reports the model of Joe and Clemmie’s aircraft as J -- as does another document in set 4, entitled “Biographic Report.”

3. A document in set 4, “List of [Massachusetts] Casualties Incurred by U.S. Military Personnel” correctly codes Joe’s “SPEC” as 1310, the Navy officer occupation designator code for a Naval Aviator commissioned in the Regular Navy. Another document in set 4, entitled “List of [Ohio] Casualties Incurred by U.S. Military Personnel” correctly codes Clemmie’s “SPEC” as 1325, the Navy officer occupation designator code for a Naval Flight Officer commissioned in the Naval Reserve. Your bio, however, misclassifies Clemmie as a pilot.

4. The document in set 4 entitled “List of [Massachusetts] Casualties Incurred by U.S. Military Personnel” reports Joe’s Branch of Service as N for Navy, but lists him as 1LT, a rank common to the Army, Air Force, and Marine Corps at the level O-2, but not the Navy. Elsewhere, Joe’s level of rank is listed as O-3, which would have made him a Lieutenant in the Navy, abbreviated LT. Your bio does not repeat this error.

Thank you for your attention. I hope that the Network can eventually correct these two bios.

John Paul Jones

CAPT USN (Ret.)