NOLAN, McKINLEY
Name: McKinley Nolan
Rank/Branch: E2/US Army
Unit: 1st Infantry Division
Date of Birth:
Home City of Record: Washington TX
Date of Loss: 09 November 1967
Country of Loss: South Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 104520N 1063900E
Status (in 1973): AWOL/Deserter
Category: 1
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: Ground
Other Personnel in Incident: (none missing)
Source: Compiled by Homecoming II Project 30 June 1990 from one or more of the
following: raw data from U.S. Government agency sources, correspondence with
POW/MIA families, published sources, interviews.
REMARKS: LAST SEEN PA>AA 2 NOV 1973
SYNOPSIS: PVT McKinley Nolan served with the 1st Infantry Division near Saigon.
On November 9, 1967, he disappeared with his Cambodian wife. After that, all
sources seem to indicate that Nolan went over to the enemy.
Nolan later turned up in Hanoi, doing some broadcasts for Radio Hanoi and
writing leaflets that were circulated among American prisoners of war. One
returned POW, James Stockdale, described him as a "U.S. soldier who defected in
South Vietnam and supplied Hanoi Hannah with tapes on defecting."
Returned POWs reported seeing him almost daily, together with his Cambodian wife
and child. He reportedly later went over to the Khmer Rouge, who were then
fighting alongside the Vietnamese. When the Americans left in 1975, and Vietnam
invaded Cambodia, Nolan was caught in the middle and told a source he had been
"mistreated" by the Vietnamese.
In late May, 1974, Nolan and his family were seen at a coffee plantation in
Cambodia where he went by the name of Buller. A later CIA document stated he was
alive and healthy in 1978 and there was an unconfirmed report that he visited
Cuba in 1978. This report was confirmed by a late-returning POW (Robert Garwood)
who stated he had heard this information while held in Vietnam.
In 1986, several national news articles revealed that intelligence documents
showed at least 7 missing Americans had been seen alive in Vietnam in the last
dozen years, including McKinley Nolan.
POW/MIA advocacy groups reverberated with anticipation, wondering if Nolan would
ultimately be brought home, to provide new information on those men still
missing would be available. No further word surfaced on Nolan in the next few
years, and the hope vanished.
Nolan, for whatever reason, apparently chose love of a woman over love of his
country and remained behind, perhaps even to defect. America cannot completely
ignore a man who may have a wealth of information on Americans still alive in
Vietnam. If McKinley Nolan should ever wish to return to his homeland, will what
he has to say about missing Americans be discounted because of allegations that
he defected? How much less forgiving would we be to him than we were to those
Americans who fled to Canada to avoid the war?...or to a woman who once
playfully aimed a Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun to the skies over Hanoi in
protest of American bombing of Vietnam?
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POW MIA in
Cambodia
?
[NOTED "Major Brian DeSantis, a spokesman for JPAC, the Joint POW-MIA
Accounting Command, said Wednesday that his agency believes Nolan is
dead. "Our indications are that McKinley Nolan is not alive," DeSantis
said. "We do have witnesses who say that he was executed." He said he
did not know who killed Nolan or the manner in which he was executed.
The agency, he said, is more interested in recovering soldiers' remains
than it is with the particulars of their deaths. JPAC was in
Cambodia
investigating the Nolan case as recently as May, DeSantis said. But, he
said, it has yet to find credible information that will lead
investigators to Nolan's grave site."]
News Story follows in Two Parts.
Tracking McKinley, Part 1: Encounter in
Cambodia
lands Kelso vet in the
middle of a decades-old manhunt
Sunday, June 1, 2008 8:34 PM PDT
By Tony Lystra
Kelso
,
Washington
State
Part 1 of a two-part series
At night, Dan Smith sees the face of McKinley Nolan, the Vietnam war
traitor, the man who wandered into the jungle and, according to the
U.S.
government, joined the Viet Cong. He can't shake the image. The high
cheekbones. The narrow nose. The blank, fearful stare in the
black-and-white photo he keeps.
For more than two years, Smith, who lives in Kelso, has been searching
for Nolan, an Army corporal who, in 1967, abandoned his unit and set out
for neighboring
Cambodia
. The
U.S.
labeled Nolan a defector, saying he
collaborated with the communists and dispatched messages urging his
fellow black soldiers to oppose the war. Nobody's exactly sure where
Nolan is today.
None of it would have anything to do with Smith, a 57-year-old retired
911 dispatcher who lost his right leg in
Vietnam
. Except, in 2005, Smith
says, he encountered a man vaguely matching Nolan's description near the
Cambodian border.
Smith has promised the Nolan family that he will find out what happened
to the corporal. He has been researching the case with Henry Corra, a
New York documentary filmmaker, Nolan's brother Michael, and Richard
Linnett, a
New Jersey
journalist. (Linnett wrote a story about Smith's
search, which appears in this month's Penthouse magazine.)
In the last two years, Smith said, he has traveled to
Cambodia
twice to
search for the missing soldier, most recently in April. He has talked
with villagers who said they knew Nolan. And, Smith said, he's passed
along tips to
U.S.
officials, who have become particularly cagey about
the subject.
Smith has at times declared he's done with the hunt, that it's taken
over his life. Then comes another late-night call from his friend and
interpreter in
Cambodia
, and again he's talking about going back to
resolve the mystery once and for all.
"People have accused me of obsession with this," Smith said last week.
"I even thought, 'Man, am I going nuts? Am I really blowing this out of
proportion?' "
"I have tried to let go of this thing and I just can't," he said. "It's
something I've got to see through, wherever it takes me."
Smith, a sergeant with the Army's First Infantry Division, arrived in
Vietnam in 1969, two years after McKinley Nolan is said to have
deserted. Smith said he operated in the same areas that Nolan had.
In 1971, Smith was shot seven times during a Viet Cong ambush near Bon
Loc. The injuries left him without a good portion of his right leg. He
declined last week to talk about the battle, or his tours. But, he said,
"Once you kill someone it destroys you for the rest of your life.... The
war's never going to be over for me. I used to think it would be. I'm
going to suffer through this until my dying day."
Those who have been working with Smith to find Nolan said this isn't
merely a detective story. It's about redemption. Making up for the past.
Helping a family that hurts. Finding peace. By tracking down a deserter
he's never met, they suggested, maybe Smith can find something of
himself again.
Smith, with his bushy mustache, Camel cigarettes and an intense yet
pleading voice, has been searching for some sort of atonement for years.
In 2002, he began saving his money and flying into
Saigon
,
Vietnam
's
capital. He'd buy up crutches and wheelchairs, he said, then haul them
into the countryside for poor villagers. He'd also dig wells, talk with
the locals, listen to their stories.
It was during one of these humanitarian trips in 2005 that, Smith said,
he visited
Tay
Ninh, a rapidly modernizing Vietnamese city near the
Cambodian border. Smith said he had fought there more than three decades
earlier, when it was little more than a rural village.
"It was the most horrifying place I had been in my life," he said.
He had worked up enough courage to return. And now, as he walked the
streets, Smith said, he spotted a black man standing near a building.
People of African descent are rare in
Southeast Asia
. But there was
something else about this man, Smith said. This guy somehow looked like
an American G.I.
As he approached, Smith said, the man backed into an alcove, as though
he were trying not to be seen.
"I looked at the guy and said, 'Hey, are you an old soldier?' "
The man said yes.
"He didn't really say much," Smith recalled. "He kept looking over my
head."
When Smith asked his name, the man said, "Call me Buller."
"Buller," who said he was from
Texas
, spoke broken English, as if it
were rusty. His teeth were rotted out, the whites of his eyes yellow. He
looked "very thin, haggard," Smith said.
Smith mentioned he was headed back to the States soon.
"And that's when he said a real odd thing," Smith recalled. "He said,
'Man, I wish I could go home.' Like a real deep regret."
When Smith asked if the pair could have a picture together, the man
waved him off and hustled away.
Then, Smith said, a local, who had been watching this exchange, ran
across the street and explained none-too-subtly that the man was an
"American V.C."
"Oh my God," Smith recalls thinking. "I wonder if this guy's a
deserter."
When he returned to
Saigon
, he said, he spoke with an American official
charged with finding missing G.I.s. The investigator, Smith said,
mentioned that it sounded like the case of McKinley Nolan, who was known
to go by the nickname "Buller."
He also suggested Smith might have encountered another missing American,
or someone who had taken Nolan's identity as a fraud.
'Oppose the dirty war'
Nolan, of Washington, Texas, appears to have had a promising military
career at first. He joined the Army in 1965 and went to
Vietnam
the
following year, according to press reports from the 1970s. He left
behind a wife and son.
Nolan was awarded a Purple Heart, although the nature of his injury is
unclear. Then something changed. Nolan apparently began wandering away
from his unit and was reported absent without leave on several
occasions, the news reports said. He disappeared for good on Nov. 9,
1967.
Four years later,
U.S.
officials wrote Nolan's wife and said he had been
seen "in the company of Viet Cong forces," according to a United Press
International story. The UPI reported that Nolan had also been seen
alive in
Cambodia
seven years after he'd gone missing.
It was "not clear whether Nolan was a prisoner or a collaborator with
the communists," the account said. "However, returned American POWs said
they had seen an American moving freely among the Viet Cong troops and
apparently working for them."
The New York Times and
Chicago
Tribune reported in 1973 that Nolan had
been "working in North Vietnamese prison camps and preparing
propaganda." A story in the Times said Nolan was "warmly received" by
the communists. It also said he had taken a wife and "moves freely
through prison camps in the jungle."
In 1968, according to press accounts, Nolan was said to have been
dispatching letters and radio broadcasts to black
U.S.
troops, telling
them to "oppose the dirty war."
Picking up the trail
Smith hadn't heard of Nolan until after the 2005
Tay
Ninh encounter. But
now, he said, he was angry. He thought of his friends killed in the war
and wondered if Nolan had a hand in it.
"There's a difference between killing the enemy and killing your own
people," he said.
He said he began talking with officials from the
U.S.
Joint POW-MIA
Accounting Command, or JPAC, which tracks lost soldiers.
It seems every village in
Southeast Asia
has a story about a missing
American G.I., Smith said. The villagers bring out old
U.S.
pistols and
tell wild stories of how they were procured. They lead visitors to
helicopter wreckage wound tight with vines. There's also a black market
for American bones, he said. And many of the locals want to trade tips
for money. (Smith said he never paid anyone for information in his
search for Nolan.)
Smith said he relayed to American officials the stories he'd heard from
the villagers during his trip, including his strange encounter in
Tay
Ninh. He said he even picked two photos of Nolan from a photo lineup. He
was just trying to help, he said last week, and the officials seemed
open, friendly and interested at first. Then, Smith said, when he
followed up with a phone call weeks later to see if his tips had been
useful, JPAC officials stopped talking to him.
JPAC's coyness piqued Smith's interest. He still wanted to know if the
man he'd seen in
Tay
Ninh really was Nolan. And, Smith said, he wanted
to find Nolan, if in fact that's who he'd seen, and bring him home to
face trial.
"I really had this bent to get him," he said.
'What the hell, let's talk to this guy'
Smith decided to track down the Nolan family. Early last year, he got a
good lead from the sheriff's office in
Washington County
,
Texas
, where
Nolan was from. The sheriff's office reached out to the Nolans, who in
turn called Richard Linnett, the
New Jersey
journalist and author who
had been researching the McKinley Nolan story.
Linnett had befriended the Nolans and also planned to write a book about
the family's story. In an interview last week, Linnett said he'd tabled
the project after the Sept. 11 attacks because publishing houses were
suddenly looking for stories about American heroes, not "anti-heroes."
But Linnett said he was intrigued when Nolan's brother, Michael Nolan,
told him a
Vietnam
vet from
Washington
state claimed to have seen
someone resembling McKinley Nolan in
Vietnam
. The story was particularly
strange, Linnett said, because he suspected Nolan was dead.
Michael Nolan, though, had long hoped that his brother had survived and
was willing to meet with Smith. Linnett recalled Michael telling him,
"What the hell, let's talk to this guy. Let's see what he has to say."
Linnett arranged a meeting for Smith at the Nolan home in
Texas
. He also
called Henry Corra, a
New York
documentary filmmaker, to see if he was
interested in the story.
On an afternoon in the spring of 2007, Smith sat in the front yard of
the Nolan residence, ringed by McKinley's family members - including his
wife, Mary, and son, Roger. Smith told the story of the man he saw in
Tay
Ninh. The Nolan family craned their necks in the damp,
Texas
heat,
soaking in every word.
Smith told the family he wasn't sure if he'd truly seen Nolan or not,
but he couldn't rule it out.
Michael Nolan said by phone last week that Smith's story "was very
exciting news.... It was joy. No doubt about it."
Still, Michael said he was leery of Smith, who, he said, appeared to be
on a macho, gung-ho mission.
"His intentions were to try and capture my brother," Michael said. "My
first impression wasn't good."
And yet, Michael said, the family had hardly heard anything about Nolan
since the 1970s.
U.S.
officials had been mum and wouldn't release his
records, he said. After years of silence, he welcomed any information
about Nolan, even from a man who wanted to hunt him down and imprison
him.
"Any search for him was good for me," Michael said.
But Smith said he softened as the day wore on and his plans for Nolan
changed.
"I was hugged. I was embraced. I was so well-received by this family,"
he said last week, his throat tightening as he spoke.
Smith said Nolan's wife, Mary, who remains married to her missing
husband, and Roger, Nolan's now-grown son, asked him, "if I would please
try to find out what happened."
"There were tears in their eyes," Smith said. "I knew then, Jesus
Christ, I needed to get this man home so he could be loved by his
family, not rotting in a prison."
Smith cried as he recalled the meeting.
"Two months later," he said, "I was gone to
Cambodia
."
The real McKinley?
Smith began pushing Linnett, the journalist, to go to
Cambodia
and
retrace Nolan's steps. Linnett protested that he was too busy with other
projects. So, Smith said, he went on his own.
"I think Dan at first wanted to be a hero in a way," Linnett said. "I
saw in him a need to be respected again. He wanted people to believe
that he still mattered, like he did back when he was a warrior, back
when he was a soldier and a fighter. I think over the years he didn't
matter any more and he wanted to matter again."
But Linnett said he saw a rare combination of passion and realism in
Smith.
"I've been traveling in the world of POW-MIA people for a while, and
there are a lot of nut cases in that world," he said. "But I think he's
for real."
Smith had to go back to
Southeast Asia
, Linnett said, "because he loved
the place and he probably hated the place, too. It was a place (where)
his friends died, where he saw incredible horror."
Smith left for
Cambodia
in May of last year, carrying with him photos of
Nolan as well as Linnett's research on where Nolan had last been seen.
In the Cambodian town of
Sangkum Mean Chey
, near the
Vietnam
border,
Smith said he met people who said they remembered Nolan. They led him to
a Cambodian village about 50 miles away called Chamkar Cafe, where, they
said, Nolan was last seen.
As Smith listened to the older villagers talk about Nolan, he began to
get a different idea of the man his government had labeled a traitor.
Cham Sone, a man who said he'd been a friend of Nolan's, patted the
corporal's photo and cried. People said they'd loved Nolan, Smith said.
Some, it was rumored, had named their children after him.
"I swear to Christ, everybody I spoke with said the same thing, that
they loved him. And they missed him," he said.
Most astounding, Smith said, is that, based on what the villagers told
him, Nolan may not have defected to the communist side. After he
deserted his unit, according to Cambodian locals and news stories, Nolan
took a half-Cambodian, half-Vietnamese common-law wife and tried to
escape to
Cambodia
. But, the villagers said, Nolan and his family were
captured by the Viet Cong. The communists, Smith said, may have used him
as a propaganda tool, and there's some indication they had planned to
kill him. A Cambodian military official, who had taken a liking to
Nolan, appears to have taken him off the Viet Cong's hands, Smith said.
Smith said the villagers told him that Nolan was made to live in Sangkum
Mean Chey, in a compound with several Cambodian soldiers. He was allowed
to move freely (there was nowhere to go) and to cultivate his own rice
paddy, Smith said.
Nolan had made friends of the villagers, Smith said. He shared his food
and was known to help anyone who needed it.
Everything changed, he said, when the Khmer Rouge, the communist regime
that slaughtered more than a million Cambodians, came to power in 1975.
Soldiers forced Nolan and the villagers to march 50 miles from their
homes in Sangkum Mean Chey to the Cambodian
village
of
Chamkar Cafe
.
Smith said the villagers told him that Nolan was forced to "work like a
cow" in the coffee and corn fields. He cooked for the villagers. And,
Smith said, Nolan was known to have stepped in front of Khmer Rouge
soldiers and taken beatings on behalf of the villagers.
Nolan was also forced to haul the villagers to an interrogation room,
where many were killed. All the way, Smith, said, Nolan is said to have
apologized. "I'm sorry. I'm sorry."
"He would sing Cambodian songs to ease their pain," Smith said. "He
would try to tell jokes. He would try everything in the world to lift
their spirits."
Cham Sone told Smith that, in 1977, 10 years after he'd deserted, Nolan
was bound and blindfolded, lead into a grove of rubber trees, and beaten
to death by four Khmer Rouge soldiers. The soldiers, Smith said, didn't
want to shoot him, because they feared they would start a panic in the
village.
When Nolan was dead, Smith said, the soldiers killed his common-law
wife, his son, infant child and his dog.
Then, Smith said, the killing continued. The Khmer Rouge, he said, wiped
out more than half the village.
Smith said that Cham Sone, who escaped the slaughter, led him to what is
said to be Nolan's shallow grave, beneath a cashew tree near the place
where he died.
This was a far different Nolan than the man Smith expected to find.
Nolan "screwed up" when he deserted, Smith said. "He had to have been a
scared kid. I was a scared kid when I was there."
And yet, Smith said he suspects Nolan stayed in Chamkar Cafe, even
though he could have easily escaped, to protect the villagers from the
Khmer Rouge.
"Thirty years after his death, he's still got villagers that cry over
him," he said. "The guy did something right."
Tomorrow in Part 2: Dan Smith and the documentary team return to
Cambodia, Smith wonders who, exactly, he saw in Tay Ninh, and the
U.S.
Government discusses the McKinley Nolan case.
Originally published June 1, 2008.
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Tracking McKinley, Part 2: 'Back to being Dan again'
Sunday, June 1, 2008 11:31 PM PDT
By Tony Lystra
Part 2 of a two-part series
Dan Smith returned from Cambodia, charged and eager to report what he'd
found to the group. The
Vietnam
veteran, who had initially wanted to
track down a traitor and see him jailed, was now startled by what
Cambodian villagers had told him: Nolan, they said, was a generous,
selfless man who sacrificed himself to protect his friends from the
Khmer Rouge.
Henry Corra, a New York filmmaker, decided to organize another Cambodia
trip. This time, the entire team would go. Corra, journalist Richard
Linnett, McKinley Nolan's brother, Michael, and Smith spent part of
March and April retracing Smith's steps.
Smith lead the crew to the Cambodian village of Chamkar Cafe and
introduced them to the people who'd said they'd known Nolan. Cham Sone,
who said he had been Nolan's friend, showed them where Khmer Rouge
soldiers beat Nolan to death. He then took them to a nearby cashew tree,
where, Cham Sone said, Nolan is buried in a shallow grave.
Standing beneath that tree, Michael Nolan said, was "joy and sadness."
After more than 40 years, with hardly a word from the U.S. government,
here, finally, was some hint of his brother.
"I'm almost 60 years old, and I never had a feeling like it before in my
life," he said. "If he's at the grave site, then we can start dealing
with what happened in '67."
Smith, Michael Nolan said last week, "helped us get to that point. That
alone is worth everything in the world."
Bringing a member of the Nolan family to the grave had left Smith in
tears, Corra said. Leading up the trip, he said, Smith had been "very
paranoid, anxious, troubled, someone who is just in pain."
But now, he said, "It was just somebody who seemed at peace and was
secure. He stopped crying.... That evening, when we sat down, he just
looked over at me and said, 'My job is done.'"
"He said, 'I've been obsessed for the last two or three years and been a
troubled man for my whole life, but now my work is done. I can get back
to being Dan again,' " Corra recalled.
Asked about the his discussion that night with Corra, Smith said, "I
can't even explain it." Getting Michael Nolan to the grave, he said, had
been a form of vindication. People, he said, were finally seeing - and
believing - the things he'd discovered.
Still, Smith said he had wanted to dig up Nolan's alleged grave during
the April trip. That, he said, could have ended the mystery right then.
"I felt like I was leaving McKinley behind again," Smith recalled
Friday. "I desperately wanted to bring him home."
Michael Nolan and Corra, however, had wanted to make sure they had the
Cambodian government's permission to dig. "Michael was adamant about
doing it on the up-and-up," Smith said.
The group reported what they'd found to U.S. officials, Smith said, but
as far as he knows nothing's been done to recover Nolan's remains. No
one can be sure yet that Nolan's body is beneath the cashew tree in
Chamkar Cafe.
The official word Major Brian DeSantis, a spokesman for JPAC, the Joint
POW-MIA Accounting Command, said Wednesday that his agency believes Nolan is dead.
"Our indications are that McKinley Nolan is not alive," DeSantis said.
"We do have witnesses who say that he was executed."
He said he did not know who killed Nolan or the manner in which he was
executed. The agency, he said, is more interested in recovering
soldiers' remains than it is with the particulars of their deaths.
JPAC was in Cambodia investigating the Nolan case as recently as May,
DeSantis said. But, he said, it has yet to find credible information
that will lead investigators to Nolan's grave site.
DeSantis said he had discussed the case with Smith and that he is
familiar with the documentary film team. Asked if Smith's information
had been useful to JPAC, he said, "I wouldn't say one way or the other
that his efforts have been helpful or not helpful. ... I don't know if
he's spoken to anybody that we haven't already spoken to."
But Smith said the agency has brushed him off. He said investigators
told him JPAC "doesn't go after bad guys, just good guys."
"I told JPAC in Hawaii exactly where he was and nobody did anything,"
Smith said.
Asked if the agency is ignoring Smith, DeSantis said, "I don't know. I
really don't."
'Other people escaped that killin' '
But if Nolan is dead, who did Smith see in Tay Ninh in 2005?
Smith said he still isn't sure. He suspects it's another American
deserter who has taken on Nolan's identity.
"I truly believe that this man that I met was an American. I truly
believe this guy was a deserter," he said. "You just know you saw
something. ... I've been chasing a ghost for two years."
He also said the man looked to be in his 60s, which is about how old
Nolan would be today.
Despite Smith's discoveries, Michael Nolan said he wonders if his
brother is still alive. His brother, he said, managed to survive in the
jungle for years. None of the villagers witnessed his execution, Michael
Nolan said, so he may have escaped.
"Knowing my brother, it could be possible," he said. "Other people
escaped that killin.' ... I'm not fantasizing, but I still have to go
with facts. ... My role is to make sure that I find the truth."
Smith and Linnett, however, said they continue to believe Nolan met his
end in Chamkar Cafe.
If Nolan were alive, Smith said, he'd still be in the village, growing
old and raising his grandchildren with Cham Sone.
"Nolan, I truly believe, found his place in the sun," Smith said. "If he
was alive, I would have found him alive in that village."
Corra said his film, tentatively titled "The Disappearance of McKinley
Nolan," will be released in late 2009 or early 2010. Actor Danny Glover
has signed on to produce it, he said.
The plan, he said, is to keep filming until Nolan's mystery is solved.
This summer, he said, the team will try to dislodge Nolan's files from
government archives. They'll also try to get into Vietnam to interview
anyone who may have known Nolan.
"We're just not going to give up until we start to get some hard
answers, where we find his bones and some DNA evidence that he was
killed."
"Or," Cora continued, "we find - and it's a long shot - that this man
that Dan saw in Tay Ninh might be McKinley. McKinley is a real survivor."
Michael Nolan said he wants to go back to the cashew tree and exhume his
brother's remains, if they are in fact there. He said he has also been
talking with lawyers in Cambodia involved with the prosecution of former
Khmer Rouge officials. He may testify before a tribunal there in the
fall.
This week, the prospects of recovering Nolan's body seemed to be
dimming. And Smith, who has sometimes sworn off the hunt, was once again
drawn into its midst. He said he'd recently received a call from his
interpreter in Cambodia saying the tree marking Nolan's grave had been
cut down and that the field may be cultivated.
Another call, again from his interpreter, came Wednesday, he said. Four
Cambodian policemen, Smith was told, had been threatening Nolan's old
friend Cham Sone and asking where Nolan is buried. Smith suspects
they're "bone hunters" plotting to sell the remains to the U.S. government.
Cham Sone, he said, gave the men bad information. But Smith said he's
worried the black marketeers will return and harm his friend when the
information proves false. Smith said he also worries Nolan's remains may
be destroyed or moved before the Nolan family can recover them.
"Now we're scrambling, trying to get a hold of someone from the
Cambodian government to somehow intercede," Smith said. "Somebody's got
to get back there, and it may be me."
Originally published June 2, 2008.
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