While Rome Was Sleeping

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Most of the research for this book and documentation came from a variety of sources. We have relied heavily on friends in government, military resources and personal experiences. We particularly wish to thank those who have supported, mentored and encouraged us through this three-year process. Thee are but a few: our newspaper friends, Joel Connelly of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Mike Benbow, Business Editor, Everett Herald, Jim Haley and Robert Frank of the Everett Herald, and Jim Larsen, Whidbey News Times.

We also thank Linda McNamara, Mary Robertson, Henry Savalza, Commader Sherman Black, USN (Ret, deceased 2006) and Rear Admiral Lyle Bull, USN (Ret).

Moscow, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

November 15, 1968

Soviet Air Force Lieutenant General Pyotr Chernakov was very familiar with the war in Indochina. He should be. As an advisor to North Vietnam, he had spent time there as well as Laos, Thailand and Cambodia. He also had an intimate knowledge of the secret prison system maintained by North Vietnam as well as NVA Prisoner of War camps in Laos and China close to the North Vietnam border.

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