Military team
from Hawaii seeks
remains in China

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Associated Press

HARTFORD, Conn. >> A search team from the U.S. Army is in northeastern China on a mission to find the remains of two American pilots who died when their CIA plane crashed there in 1952 during a Korean War-era mission.

The eight-member team from the U.S. Army's Central Identification Laboratory in Hawaii are in the town of Antu in Jilin province to seek the bodies of Robert Snoddy and Norman Schwartz, a U.S. Defense Department spokesman told The Hartford Courant.

Snoddy, of Eugene, Ore., and Schwartz, of Louisville, Ky., were the pilots of an unmarked C-47 aircraft that was reportedly shot down over northeastern China Nov. 29, 1952, during a mission to pick up an anti-communist Chinese agent.

The crash occurred during the Korean War, when China and the United States were fighting each other in Korea and the CIA was attempting to undermine the fledgling communist regime on its home territory.

The Chinese government announced its approval of the search to U.S. officials May 6, saying authorities in China had located a 78-year-old man who witnessed either the burial of the pilots or the crash itself, Greer said.

The search mission marks the first time China has cooperated on a search for the remains of Americans who died in China during the Cold War.