Swift Boat Writer (O'Neill) Lied on Cambodia Claim

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By Elizabeth Wolfe, Associated Press Writer
August 28, 2004
http://www.boston.com/news/politics/president/kerry/articles/2004/08/25/swift_boat_writer_lied_on_cambodia_claim/

WASHINGTON -- The chief critic of John Kerry's military record told President Nixon in 1971 that he had been in Cambodia in a swift boat during the Vietnam War -- a claim at odds with his recent statements that he was not.

"I was in Cambodia, sir. I worked along the border," said John E. O'Neill in a conversation that was taped by the former president's secret recording system. The tape is stored at the National Archives in College Park, Md.

In an interview with The Associated Press on Wednesday, O'Neill did not dispute what he said to Nixon, but insisted he was never actually in Cambodia.