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>Recognizing courage and integrity in Wim and Monica

9 August 2005, 14:50

Dear Monica,
It is good to read your wise and honorable remarks that hold up the courageous work of Wim Dankbaar. There are too few men and women of courage AND integrity and we who care need to speak out in their support. You are indeed one of courage and integrity who cares. A little note on President George Herbert Walker Bush: When I fought to erase the evil and indeed heinous false charges that had come from our government against General Quang Van Dang, a man who saved my life and the lives of the rest of my Special Forces A Team and the our counterpart South Vietnamese A Team and approximately 400 Buddhist Hoa Hao Irregular fighters (saved us from certain death at the hands of a oine thosand man regiment with American Advisors who had been sent to destroy my camp and all of us who were in it) I ran into a stone wall of subterfuge in the State Department and DOD and wrote to President Bush on 17 July 1989, telling him I would not cease to fight for General Dang to be cleared of all those lies until I died or was taken up by Jesus. I then (and this is what I sincerely believe caused him to act!) slipped a hand-written note in the envelope that he could just toss in the shred and burn file, that said "I am intimately familiar with your association with the CIA before you admit being a part of it to the public." He took immediate action to demand a complete investigation and General Dang was cleared on 7 September of that same year and I personally went to Montreal, Quebec and brough the General into this country. He is now a US Citizen.
Sincerely and pleased to know someone who has guts to do what is right,

Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Marvin, US Army Special Forces (Retired)
author of a book of truth "EXPENDABLE ELITE - One Soldier’s Journey Into Covert Warfare."