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Controversial veterans' activist Ted Sampley, 62

The Washington Post

WASHINGTON - Ted Sampley, a Vietnam War veteran and former member of the Green Berets who was a persistent activist for American prisoners of war and missing servicemen, and who later led smear campaigns against presidential candidates, died Tuesday at the VA Medical Center in Durham, N.C., of complications from heart surgery. He was 62.

Sampley, who had an uncanny...

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