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Posted on July 02, 2008

FALSE POSITIVESRemember the classic suspense movie The Manchurian Candidate ? The original one from 1962 with Frank Sinatra and Angela Landsbury, not the remake from 2004 with Denzel Washington and Meryl Streep? The scenes that stuck with me the most when I first watched this movie years ago, were about American prisoners of wars in the Korean war being systematically interrogated by North Koreans, with overseers from Communist China and Russia in the background. In what has to be one of the strangest bits of life imitating art, the New York Times reports that: The military trainers who cam...

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