 Former U.S. congressman Pete McCloskey of California , the only one of eight outside advisers to the U.S. inquiry to write a detailed analysis afterward , agreed with the Koreans , saying , " I thought the Army report was a whitewash . " In a letter to Defense Secretary Cohen , another U.S. adviser , retired Marine general Bernard E. Trainor , expressed sympathy with the hard @-@ pressed U.S. troops of 1950 , but said the killings were unjustified , and that " the American command was responsible for the loss of innocent civilian life in or around No @-@ Gun @-@ Ri . " 
