Sgt.
Karl Wolfe: US Air Force
"I didn’t
want to look at it any longer than that, because I felt that my life
was in jeopardy. Do you understand what I’m saying? I would
have loved to have looked at it longer, I would have loved to have
had copies. I would love to have said more about it, discussed it
more, but I knew I couldn’t. I knew the young fellow who was
sharing this was really, really overstepping his bounds at that point.
“I felt that he just needed somebody to talk to. He hadn’t
discussed it, couldn’t discuss it, and he wasn’t doing
it for any ulterior motive other than the fact that I think he had
the weight of this thing on him and it was distressing to him…
“I knew that I couldn’t go anyplace for at least five
years without telling the State Department where I was, after I left
the military. Any time I traveled I had to notify and get permission,
even in the United States. They had to know where I was all the time.
As an example, if we went to Vietnam there was always someone there
with us, with a gun, ready to annihilate us basically if we should
fall into the hands of the enemy. They didn’t want the enemy
to get us; we would be killed instead.
“So we knew we were operating under these sort of conditions.
Your life was in jeopardy all the time, should you fall into the wrong
hands. So we were aware of that. I was told when I left that I would
be investigated on a regular basis to make sure that I wasn’t
involved in any peculiar activities that didn’t suit the government’s
needs.”
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