[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 34, Number 21 (Monday, May 25, 1998)]
[Pages 951-952]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Message to the Congress Transmitting a Report on United States Citizens 
Missing in Cyprus

May 22, 1998

      

To the Congress of the United States:

    In accordance with Public Law 103-372, I hereby submit the enclosed 
``Report to Congress on the Investigation of the Whereabouts of the U.S. 
Citizens Who Have Been Missing from Cyprus Since 1974.'' The report was 
prepared by retired Ambassador Robert S. Dillon, with significant 
contribution by former State Department Associate

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Director of Security Edward L. Lee, II. Their intensive investigation 
centered on Cyprus, but it followed up leads in the United States, 
Turkey, Greece, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.
    The investigation led to the recovery of partial remains that were 
identified through DNA testing (done at the Armed Forces Institute of 
Pathology DNA Identification Laboratory) and other evidence as being 
those of one of the missing Americans, Andreas Kassapis. The report 
concludes that Mr. Kassapis was killed shortly after his capture in 
August 1974. The report also concludes that, although their remains 
could not be recovered, the other four missing U.S. citizens in all 
likelihood did not survive the events in Cyprus in July and August 1974.
                                            William J. Clinton
The White House,
May 22, 1998.