"US POW/MIA" found to be fraud

[Sardondi]

From the "Too Bizarre To Be Believed" category comes the story of a 76 yo Westerner discovered living in Vietnam. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/vietnam-vet-finds-soldier-life-article-1.1331248

Found in a remote Vietnamese village, the man claims to be Green Beret John Hartley Robertson, who was believed killed in 1968 when his helicopter was shot down. The man says he does not remember his original name or how to speak English, but recalls he had an American family (although he can't remember his children's names) before his capture. He says he was caged and tortured for an entire year before he was released to live as a Vietnamese(?!). He married the NV nurse who cared for him and took a Vietnamese name.

The entire story is just bizarre. But here's the rest of the story. The guy has tried this before, and has been exposed as a fraud. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/revealed-man-claiming-to-be-vietnam-veteran-sgt-john-hartley-robertson-who-went-missing-and-was-presumed-dead-44-years-earlier-is-exposed-as-a-fraud-8597350.html

Seems he's French, and over the years has tried to scam MIA/POW groups and tired to get back-pay from the US. He even went so far 20 years ago as having a DNA test...and was found to be a fraud then.

Dang. It would have been a great story.

[MV/Liberace!]

Dang. It would have been a great story.

it's a bummer to learn it's not true, but i'm sure there have got to be other stories along these lines that are true but have yet to be revealed.

[yumyumtree]

This is one of the reasons I've lost respect for Michael Savage. He covered this story on his show, not realizing it had been debunked.