To require the Secretary of Defense to provide back pay to the Vietnamese commandos who were employed by the United States during the Vietnam conflict to conduct covert operations in North Vietnam so as to compensate the commandos for the years in which they were imprisoned and persecuted in Vietnam.

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Directs the Secretary of Defense to pay specified back pay to each Vietnamese commando living in the United States who submits a timely claim. Defines a Vietnamese commando as a Vietnamese national employed by the United States during the Vietnam conflict to conduct covert operations to infiltrate North Vietnam who was captured and imprisoned during the course of such operations. Directs the Secretary to endeavor to notify each eligible commando of the right to such back pay. States that such payment shall be in full satisfaction of any claim against the United States arising out of such service.

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  Introduced in House · EN · 18 June 1996

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