AIR FORCES ESCAPE AND EVASION SOCIETY 24 MAY 1986
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DCI
23 MAY 86, 0900
AIR FORCES ESCAPE AND EVASION SOCIETY
24 MAY 1986
HAPPY TO BE HERE WITH EUROPEAN FRIENDS WHO RISKED THEIR
LIVES TO RUN SO SPLENDIDLY AND SO BRAVELY - THOSE WONDERFUL
ESCAPE LINES. WE'RE GLAD YOU'RE STILL HERE AND WE PARTICULARLY
WELCOME YOU TO THE U.S. WE SALUTE YOU FOR THE PURE COURAGE
AND THE AMAZING INGENUITY WHICH BROUGHT SO MANY ALLIED AIRMEN
BACK TO FLY AND FIGHT AGAIN, NOW MORE THAN 40 YEARS AGO.
WE SALUTE ALSO THE AIRMEN HERE TODAY WHO PUT THEMSELVES
IN THE HANDS OF THOSE YOUNG GIRLS, STAYED IN THOSE SAFEHOUSES
WITH ALL THOSE WAR WIDOWS AND MAIDEN AUNTS, RODE THOSE BICYCLES
ON THOSE DARK AND DUSTY ROADS, SLUMBERED IN THOSE DREARY RAILWAY
COACHES, WALKED ACROSS THE PRYENEES, WAITED IN BRITTANY FOR A
BOAT TO TAKE THEM ACROSS TO ENGLAND. HOW MANY OF THEM GOT BACK
TO FLY AGAIN AND HOW IMPORTANT THAT WAS TO THE SPIRIT AND MORALE
OF ALL OUR AIRMEN.
WHAT A WONDERFUL STORY AND HOW WONDERFUL TO HAVE YOU HERE
TO RELIVE IT AS WE REMINISCE TOGETHER.
REMEMBER THE GREAT PAT O'LEARY, HIS CODE NAME, WHO AS MUCH
AS ANYONE STARTED IT ALL. IT'S BEEN ONE OF THE GREAT PRIVILEGES
OF MY LIFE TO HAVE BEEN HIS FRIEND FOR 40 YEARS AND TO KEEP IN
TOUCH AND VISIT WITH HIS LOVELY WIFE SYLVIA AND THEIR CHILDREN
AS PAT BECAME MAJOR GENERAL GUERISE, THE SURGEON GENERAL OF THE
BELGIAN ARMY WHO NOW LIVES IN GRACEFUL RETIREMENT NEAR WATERLOO.
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AND I REMEMBER DIDEE AND MISCHOU AND THAT WONDERFUL GIRL
WHO, WHEN YOU WERE HERE TEN YEARS AGO, CAME ALL THE WAY FROM
RUANDA IN DARKEST AFRICA, WHERE SHE HAD NURSED BLACK MEN AND
WOMEN FOR ALMOST THREE DECADES. THE DEDICATION AND THE CODE
OF HONOR OF YOU AND OTHERS WHO CREATED AND RAN THOSE ESCAPE
ROUTES HAS ALWAYS BEEN AN INSPIRATION TO THOSE WHO HAD ANY
CONTACT WITH OR ANY KNOWLEDGE OF THIS EPIC STORY. THANKFULLY
IT HAS BEEN WELL TOLD BY JAMES LANGLEY, DONALD DARLING, AND
AIREY NEAVE, WHO RAN MARGARET THATCHER'S CAMPAIGN FOR PRIME
MINISTER AND WAS KILLED SO TRAGICALLY IN LONDON BY A BOMB
PLACED BY AN IRISH TERRORIST.
THEN THERE ARE THE MEN WHO CAME BACK TO FIGHT ON AND
LIVE ON. IT'S WONDERFUL TO HAVE YOU HERE TODAY. THERE ARE
MANY GREAT TALES OF CONTRIBUTIONS TO OUR LIFE AND TIMES WHICH
WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN MADE BUT FOR THOSE ESCAPE LINES. I RECALL
HOW HAPPY ALL OF US WERE WHEN WE HEARD OF LARGE GROUPS, SCORES
AND PERHAPS HUNDREDS, OVERRUN AND LIBERATED IN BRITTANY AND
NORMANDY - WASN'T IT SHELBOURNE AND BONAPARTE AND BURGUNDY -
OR IS MY MEMORY GETTING DIM.
AMERICANS TODAY ARE LEARNING ABOUT THE GREAT CONTRIBUTION
OF ONE OF YOU COMEBACK. THE BIOGRAPHY OF CHUCK YEAGER IS HIGH
ON THE LIST OF BESTSELLING BOOKS.
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CHUCK IS A LEGEND IN HIS OWN TIME--THE FIRST TEST PILOT
TO SMASH THE SOUND BARRIER AND A FIGHTER SQUADRON COMMANDER
IN EUROPE, HE FLEW TACTICAL BOMBERS IN SOUTHEAST ASIA AND
SUPERVISED MILITARY DEFENSE IN THE PAKISTAN-INDIA WAR.
CHUCK WAS SHOT DOWN IN SOUTHERN FRANCE 50 MILES EAST OF
BORDEAUX ON MARCH 5, 1944. HE WAS TWENTY-ONE, FULL OF
SHRAPNEL PUNCTURES, AND HAD A HOLE IN HIS CALF AND A GASH
IN HIS FOREHEAD. HE HID IN THE WOODS UNTIL A WOODCUTTER
LED HIM TO AN ENGLISH-SPEAKING FARMER. HE HID IN A SMALL
STOREROOM IN THE HAYLOFT FOR A WEEK BEFORE HE WAS LED TO THE
MAQUIS, THE FRENCH RESISTANCE FIGHTERS. YEAGER BECAME THE
MAQUIS' FUSE MAN. THEY WERE CONSTANTLY ON THE MOVE, HIDING
BY DAY, HITTING BRIDGES, TRAINS, AND RAIL LINES BY NIGHT.
THE GROUP SPLIT INTO SINGLES AND PAIRS NEAR LOURDES TO
ATTEMPT THE DANGEROUS CROSSING OF THE PYRENEES INTO SPAIN--
11,000 FEET UP AND SHEER ICE. YEAGER LIVED TO TELL ABOUT IT.
HE MADE IT TO A SPANISH VILLAGE WHERE AN AMERICAN CONSUL FOUND
HIM ON MARCH 30, 1944.
FORTY YEARS AGO, YOU ALL PLAYED GALLANT ROLES IN WINNING
A WAR THAT HAD TO BE WON. YOU HELPED STOP NAZISM DEAD IN ITS
TRACKS AT A TIME WHEN TOTALITARIANISM WAS TRYING TO FLEX ITS
MUSCLES OVER THE WESTERN WORLD.
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TODAY, THE WEST IS AGAIN AT WAR WITH TOTALITARIANISM,
THIS TIME IN THE FORM OF MARXIST-LENINISM AND THE SOVIET EMPIRE.
THIS WAR IS ONE OF AGGRESSIVE SUBVERSION AND SUPPORT FOR TERRORISM
AND INSTABILITY, AND ITS BATTLEFIELDS ARE IN THE THIRD WORLD,
WHICH MOSCOW VIEWS AS THE WEST'S ACHILLES HEEL. IN PLACES
LIKE AFGHANISTAN, CAMBODIA, ETHIOPIA, NICARAGUA, SOUTH YEMEN,
AND ANGOLA, NEW TOTALITARIANS ARE STRUGGLING TO BRING MILLIONS
MORE UNDER THEIR CONTROL. AND FROM THESE NEW OUTPOSTS OF
SOVIET POWER THE NEW TOTALITARIANS SEEK TO EXPORT REVOLUTION
TO THEIR NEIGHBORS.
THIS WAR IS NOT UNDECLARED. IN 1961, NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV,
THEN LEADER OF THE SOVIET UNION, TOLD US THAT COMMUNISM WOULD
WIN NOT THROUGH NUCLEAR WAR WHICH COULD DESTROY THE WORLD, OR
CONVENTIONAL WAR WHICH COULD QUICKLY LEAD TO NUCLEAR WAR, BUT
THROUGH "WARS OF NATIONAL LIBERATION" IN AFRICA, ASIA, AND
LATIN AMERICA. WE WERE RELUCTANT TO BELIEVE HIM THEN, JUST AS
IN THE 1930s WE WERE RELUCTANT TO TAKE HITLER SERIOUSLY WHEN
HE SPELLED OUT, IN HIS BOOK MEIN KAMPF, HOW HE WOULD TAKE OVER
EUROPE.
THIS IS ALSO NOT A BLOODLESS WAR. MARXIST-LENINIST
POLICIES AND TACTICS HAVE UNLEASHED THE FOUR HORSES OF THE
APOCALYPSE--FAMINE, PESTILENCE, WAR AND DEATH. THROUGHOUT
THE THIRD WORLD WE SEE FAMINE IN AFRICA, PESTILENCE THROUGH
CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL AGENTS IN AFGHANISTAN AND INDO-CHINA,
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WAR ON THREE CONTINENTS, AND DEATH EVERYWHERE. EVEN AS I SPEAK,
SOME 300,000 SOVIET, VIETNAMESE, AND CUBAN TROOPS ARE CARRYING
OUT SAVAGE MILITARY OPERATIONS DIRECTED AT WIPING OUT NATIONAL
RESISTANCE IN AFGHANISTAN, KAMPUCHEA, ANGOLA, ETHIOPIA, AND
SEVERAL OTHER COUNTRIES.
WHAT DO WE SEE IN THE OCCUPIED COUNTRIES--AFGHANISTAN,
CAMBODIA, ETHIOPIA, ANGOLA, NICARAGUA--IN WHICH MARXIST REGIMES
HAVE BEEN EITHER IMPOSED OR MAINTAINED BY EXTERNAL FORCES?
IN THE AGGREGATE THERE HAS OCCURRED A HOLOCAUST COMPARABLE
TO THAT WHICH NAZI GERMANY INFLICTED IN EUROPE SOME 40 YEARS
AGO. OVER FOUR MILLION AFGHANS, MORE THAN ONE-QUARTER OF THE
POPULATION, HAVE HAD TO FLEE THEIR COUNTRY INTO PAKISTAN AND
IRAN. THE HELSINKI WATCH TELLS US THAT THEY HAVE FLED BECAUSE
"THE CRIMES OF INDISCRIMINATE WARFARE ARE COMBINED WITH THE
WORST EXCESSES OF UNBRIDLED STATE-SANCTIONED VIOLENCE AGAINST
CIVILIANS." IT CITES EVIDENCE OF "CIVILIANS BURNED ALIVE,
DYNAMITED, BEHEADED; CRUSHED BY SOVIET TANKS; GRENADES THROWN
INTO ROOMS WHERE WOMEN AND CHILDREN HAVE BEEN TOLD TO WAIT...-
TENS OF THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN HAVE BEEN TAKEN FROM THEIR PARENTS
AND SENT OUTSIDE OF THE COUNTRY FUR REEDUCATION.
IN CAMBODIA, 2-3 MILLION PEOPLE, SOMETHING LIKE ONE-QUARTER
OF THE PRE-WAR POPULATION, HAVE BEEN KILLED IN THE MUST VIOLENT
AND BRUTAL MANNER BY BOTH INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL MARXIST FORCES.
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IN NICARAGUA, THE COMMUNIST GOVERNMENT KILLED OUTRIGHT
A MINIMUM OF 1,000 FORMER SOMOZA NATIONAL GUARDSMEN DURING
THE SUMMER OF 1979. IN 1982, IT FORCIBLY RELOCATED SOME
15,000 MISKITO INDIANS TO DETENTION CAMPS, FORCED MANY MORE
TO FLEE TO REFUGEE CAMPS IN HONDURAS, AND BURNED SOME 40 INDIAN
VILLAGES. LAST YEAR, THE SANDINISTAS FORCIBLY MOVED 60,000
CAMPESINOS FROM AREAS CLOSE TO THE HONDURAN REGIONS, BURNING
THEIR HOUSES AND KILLING THEIR CATTLE.
ANGOLA IS AN ECONOMIC BASKET CASE AS A MARXIST GOVERNMENT
IS KEPT IN POWER BY THE PRESENCE OF 30,000 CUBAN TROOPS. IN
ALL THESE COUNTRIES THE INDIGENOUS ARMY FORMED BY THE MARXIST
GOVERNMENT SUFFERS LARGE AND CONTINUING DESERTIONS TO THE
RESISTANCE AND IS ALMOST ENTIRELY INEFFECTIVE.
IN ETHIOPIA, A MARXIST MILITARY GOVERNMENT IS SUPPORTED
WITH EXTENSIVE MILITARY SUPPORT FROM MOSCOW AND THOUSANDS OF
CUBAN TROOPS AS IT SPENDS ITSELF INTO BANKRUPTCY TRYING
UNSUCCESSFULLY TO EXTINGUISH OPPOSITION IN ITS NORTHERN
PROVINCES. TO DO THIS, IT HAS EXACERBATED A FAMINE WHICH
THREATENS THE LIVES OF MILLIONS OF ITS CITIZENS AND BLOCKS
EMERGENCY FOOD DELIVERIES TO THE HUNGRY REMOTE AREAS, PARTICULARLY
THOSE IN PROVINCES WHERE INSURGENCIES ARE ACTIVE.
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CUBA, VIETNAM, ETHIOPIA, ANGOLA, AND NICARAGUA, ALL
ECONOMIC BASKET CASES, RECEIVE IN THE AGGREGATE FIVE TO SIX
BILLION DOLLARS IN MILITARY AND ECONOMIC AID FROM THE SOVIET
UNION. THIS ENABLES VIETNAM TO MAINTAIN THE FOURTH LARGEST
ARMY IN THE WORLD, ETHIOPIA THE LARGEST ARMY IN AFRICA, CUBA
THE SECOND MOST POWERFUL MILITARY APPARATUS IN THE WESTERN
HEMISPHERE, NICARAGUA A MILITARY FORCE LARGER THAN ALL ITS
CENTRAL AMERICAN NEIGHBORS PUT TOGETHER. THERE ARE OVER
100,000 SOVIET TROOPS IN AFGHANISTAN, 170,000 VIETNAMESE
TROOPS IN CAMBODIA, 40,000 CUBAN TROOPS IN AFRICA.
WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF ALL THIS CARNAGE, THIS CREEPING
IMPERIALISM? IN MY VIEW, THERE ARE TWO PRIMARY TARGETS--THE
OIL FIELDS OF THE MIDDLE EAST, WHICH ARE THE LIFE LINE OF THE
WESTERN ALLIANCE, AND THE ISTHMUS BETWEEN NORTH AND SOUTH
AMERICA. AFGHANISTAN, SOUTH YEMEN, ETHIOPIA, AS WELL AS
CAM RANH BAY IN VIETNAM, AND MOZAMBIQUE AND ANGOLA IN SOUTHERN
AFRICA, BRING SOVIET POWER MUCH CLOSER TO THE SOURCES OF OIL
AND MINERALS ON WHICH THE INDUSTRIAL NATIONS DEPEND AND PUTS
SOVIET NAVAL AND AIR POWER ASTRIDE THE SEA LANES WHICH CARRY
THOSE RESOURCES TO AMERICA, EUROPE AND JAPAN.
CAPABILITIES TO THREATEN THE PANAMA CANAL IN THE SHORT
TERM AND MEXICO IN A SOMEWHAT LONGER TERM ARE BEING DEVELOPED
IN NICARAGUA WHERE THE SANDINISTA REVOLUTION IS THE FIRST
SUCCESSFUL CASTROITE SEIZURE OF POWER ON THE AMERICAN MAINLAND.
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THEY HAVE WORKED QUIETLY AND STEADILY TOWARD THEIR OBJECTIVES
OF BUILDING THE POWER OF THE STATE SECURITY APPARATUS, BUILDING
THE STRONGEST ARMED FORCES IN CENTRAL AMERICA, AND BECOMING
A CENTER FOR EXPORTING SUBVERSION TO NICARAGUA'S NEIGHBORS.
LET ME REVIEW QUICKLY WHAT HAS ALREADY HAPPENED IN
NICARAGUA. IT WILL BE FAMILIAR TO YOU - NAZI-OCCUPIED EUROPE.
OF 46 INDICATORS IDENTIFIED BY OUR ANALYSTS IN THE CONSOLIDATION
OF POWER BY MARXIST-LENINISTS, NICARAGUA IN FIVE AND ONE-HALF
YEARS HAS ACCOMPLISHED 33. THEY HAVE ESTABLISHED CONTROL OF
THE MEDIA, TAKEN OVER RADIO AND TV, CENSORED THE BROADCASTS OF
SUNDAY SERMONS OF THE ARCHBISHOP OF MANAGUA, AND SUBJECTED THE
ONLY FREE NEWSPAPER, LA PRENSA, TO A BRUTAL DAILY CENSORSHIP.
THEY HAVE TAKEN CONTROL OF THE EDUCATION SYSTEM. NICARAGUAN
TEXTBOOKS NOW TEACH MARXISM. THEY ATTACK THE TENETS OF WESTERN
DEMOCRACY. THEY ATTACK TRADITIONAL RELIGIOUS TEACHINGS AND
ENCOURAGE CHILDREN TO MAINTAIN REVOLUTIONARY VIGILANCE BY
WATCHING FOR SIGNS OF IDEOLOGICAL IMPURITIES IN THEIR NEIGHBORS,
FRIENDS AND RELATIVES. THE SANDINISTAS HAVE TAKEN CONTROL OF
THE MILITARY. THEY HAVE TAKEN CONTROL OF THE INTERNAL SECRET
POLICE AND HAVE ESTABLISHED A DIRECTORATE OF STATE SECURITY.
THAT DIRECTORATE, ACCORDING TO OUR REPORTS, HAS HUNDREDS OF
CUBAN, SOVIET, EAST GERMAN AND BULGARIAN ADVISORS. THERE ARE
SOVIET ADVISORS AT EVERY LEVEL OF THE SECRET POLICE. IN FACT,
IT IS SAFE TO SAY THAT IT IS CONTROLLED BY THE SOVIET UNION
AND ITS SURROGATES. BLOCK COMMITTEES HAVE BEEN ESTABLISHED TO
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WATCH AND CONTROL THE PEOPLE. THE CHURCH HAS BEEN PERSECUTED.
WITNESS THE CAMPAIGN MOUNTED BY THE DIRECTORATE OF STATE SECURITY
TO HARASS AND EMBARRASS POPE JOHN PAUL II DURING HIS 1983
VISIT TO NICARAGUA. THEY HAVE USED POLITICAL MOBS (SIMILAR TO
THE RED GUARDS OF SOVIET AND CHINESE REVOLUTIONARY HISTORY) TO
ATTACK DEMOCRATIC POLITICIANS, UNION MEMBERS AND RELIGIOUS
LEADERS. AND FINALLY, FOLLOWING HITLER AND KHRUSHCHEV, THE
SANDINISTAS HAVE TOLD THE WORLD THAT THEY WOULD SPREAD THE
EXAMPLE OF NICARAGUA BEYOND EL SALVADOR TO HONDURAS, GUATEMALA,
AND THE ENTIRE REGION.
ANOTHER PHENOMENON DOMINATING THE LANDSCAPE IN THE 1930s
AND '40s WAS THE TRAGIC PLIGHT OF REFUGEES ESCAPING TOTALITARIANISM.
MARXIST-LENINISM PRODUCED ADDITIONAL WAVES OF REFUGEES FROM
EASTERN EUROPE IN THE 1940s AND 1950s TO THE MILLIONS FLEEING
THE NEW TOTALITARIANS IN MOSCOW'S THIRD WORLD BRIDGEHEADS
OVER THE LAST TWO DECADES. IN THE 1960s, THEY WERE LEAVING
CASTRO'S CUBA BEHIND. IN THE 1970s, MILLIONS FLED THE COMMUNIST
TAKEOVERS IN VIETNAM AND CAMBODIA. WHEN THE SOVIETS INVADED
AFGHANISTAN, ONE-QUARTER OF THE POPULATION FLED INTO PAKISTAN.
ALREADY HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF NICARAGUANS AND SALVADORANS
HAVE FLED THEIR COUNTRIES AND HEADED NORTH. CAN ANYONE
DOUBT THAT AS SOON AS IT BECOMES APPARENT THAT THE COMMUNISTS
ARE ABOUT TO COMPLETE THEIR CONQUEST OF NICARAGUA ANOTHER SIGNAL
WILL BE FLASHED AND MILLIONS OF PEOPLE WILL LEAVE CENTRAL AMERICA,
AND ULTIMATELY MEXICO, TO CROSS THE BORDER OF THE UNITED STATES.
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ILLEGAL MOVEMENT FROM MEXICO HAS INCREASED, WITH SOME 1,000,000
MEXICANS ILLEGALLY ENTERING THIS COUNTRY IN 1983 ALONE. IN
1984, THE BI-PARTISAN COMMISSION ON CENTRAL AMERICA WARNED
THAT A COMMUNIST CENTRAL AMERICA WOULD LIKELY BE FOLLOWED BY
THE DESTABILIZATION OF MEXICO AND THAT THIS COULD RESULT IN
MANY MILLIONS OF ADDITIONAL MEXICANS FLEEING INTO THE U.S.
RECENTLY, I SPOKE IN SAN ANTONIO. THE MAYOR SURPRISED ME BY
TELLING ME THAT SAN ANTONIO HAS BECOME THE TENTH LARGEST CITY
IN THE UNITED STATES. I TOLD HIM IF THE SANDINISTAS CONSOLIDATE
IN NICARAGUA IT WOULD NOT BE LONG BEFORE SAN ANTONIO BECOMES
THE LARGEST CITY IN THE UNITED STATES, AND I BELIEVE THAT.
SO THE STAKES IN CENTRAL AMERICA ARE HUGE AND HISTORIC IN
THEIR IMPACT.
THE RECURRING REFUGEE PHENOMENON IS AN ELOQUENT INDICTMENT
OF THE NATURE AND DIMENSION OF WHAT IS HAPPENING FROM ETHIOPIA
TO AFGHANISTAN TO CAMBODIA AND IN OUR OWN HEMISPHERE. IN
ADDITION TO THE MILLIONS VOTING WITH THEIR FEET, HOWEVER,
MOSCOW'S SURROGATE TOTALITARIANS ARE FACING A NEW PHENOMENON--
THE RISING UP OF HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF ORDINARY PEOPLE WHO
ARE VOLUNTEERS IN IRREGULAR WARS AGAINST THE SOVIET ARMY OR
SOVIET-SUPPORTED REGIMES. WHEREAS IN THE 1960s AND 1970s
ANTI-WESTERN CAUSES ATTRACTED RECRUITS THROUGHOUT THE THIRD
WORLD, THE 1980s HAVE EMERGED AS THE DECADE OF FREEDOM FIGHTERS
RESISTING COMMUNIST REGIMES. TODAY IN A VERY REAL WAY, THE
OCCUPYING FORCES ARE BESIEGED MUCH AS THE NAZI ARMY AND PUPPET
RULERS WERE BY THE FRENCH, BELGIAN, DUTCH AND NORWEGIAN RESISTANCE
IN 1943 AND 1944?
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