Evidence points to U.S. GIs as Soviet POWs. (Security).(Brief Article)

The memoir of a former Soviet gulag prisoner purports that U.S. servicemen were POWs of the Communist country in the 1950s. Obtained by American representatives of the U.S.-Russia Joint Commission on MIAs, the memoir is noteworthy because it provides the names of GIs, three of which match with U.S. military records.

One of those identified, Pvt. Chan Jay Park Kim, a Hawaiian of Korean descent, was one of 22 GIs, the memoir claims, who covertly passed along their names to a worker at the Kirovskij mining camp near the Kamenka River in the Krasnoyarsk region in December 1951. Kim, a member of the 34th Inf. Regt., 24th Inf. Div., was captured with his unit by North …