Team to Look for CIA Pilots Lost in China
(EXCERPT) LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- A team of American investigators is
traveling to China this week to search for the remains of two CIA
pilots killed 50 years ago when their plane was shot down on a secret
mission to pick up an anti-communist Chinese agent.
Two years ago, the U.S. military announced that investigators had
found aircraft wreckage at a site where a villager said he'd seen the
C-47 go down after being struck by Chinese gunfire.
No human remains were found then, so investigators are returning to
look for evidence of Robert C. Snoddy of Eugene, Ore., and Norman A.
Schwartz of Louisville, Ky.
The Joint POW-MIA Accounting Command, based in Hawaii, is sending the
eight-member excavation team to the site near the town of Antu, in
China's Jili...
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