[piasa]

New details tonight about a secret Pentagon database used to monitor anti-war protests and activists. Recently-disclosed documents reveal that some of the surveillance targets include an organization with ties to the Central Coast.
Secret Pentagon documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union provide details of how the organization called "Veterans for Peace" was considered a threat.

Veterans for Peace (VFP), an outgrowth of American Veterans for Peace (AVP), an antiwar group which the Communist Party had originally formed in 1951 to protest the Korean War.81 Barry joined Vietnam veterans among the VFP marchers and inquired about a banner some of them were carrying which read “Vietnam Veterans Against the War”. When Barry learned the phrase was just a slogan and there was no formal group by that name, he decided to form one. After talking with the older VFP members and studying their tactics, he recruited five Vietnam veterans from a Memorial Day VFP rally, and on June 1, 1967 the six of them held the first VVAW meeting in his apartment.82----------Hanoi John: Kerry and the Antiwar Movement’s Communist Connections Posted by Fedora On News/Activism 04/04/2005 12:20:55 AM PDT · 40 of 113

[piasa]

1985 : (NEW "VETERANS FOR PEACE" IS FOUNDED - OFFSHOOT OF THE VVAW? ) "Veterans For Peace is a 5,000-member national organization founded in 1985, with 118 chapters across the country. " I think they are the off-shoot of the VVAW, that Kerry and Jane Fonda founded.20 posted on 04/03/2005 10:42:49 PM PDT by FairOpinion
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And from their webpage:
Veterans For Peace is an official Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) represented at the UN. Why do they have a representation at the UN?!!!!!!!!
21 posted on 04/03/2005 10:45:14 PM PDT by FairOpinion
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I went to the [VFP] website - and low and behold .. there appears the name of PEACEFUL TOMORROWS and VVAW (Vietnam Veterans Against the War). Both of these organizations HAVE DIRECT CONNECTIONS TO THE KERRY CAMPAIGN. The dems are just desperate and pathetic.-----------33 posted on 05/16/2004 12:14:25 PM PDT by CyberAnt

[Cindy]

That's interesting.
Thank you piasa.

[Fedora]

Some more on the original VFP and their role in the creation of VVAW here. Note that the current Veterans For Peace is incorporated under a more recent charter than the original, though there seem to be personnel and ideological links between the two.

Guide to Contents, Abbreviations, and Names in the 8/25/1972 FBI Information Digest Special Report on VVAW

Veterans for Peace aka Veterans for Peace in Vietnam (VFP): Veterans antiwar group founded in Chicago in 1966 by Leroy Wolins, a CP member and leader of the New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam. Modeled on American Veterans for Peace (AVP), a CP front formed in 1951 to protest the Korean War. Headquartered in Chicago at 431 South Dearborn, Room 813, apparently with another branch at 7127 South Chicago Avenue. Wolins worked with New York CP, SWP, and VFP members, the New York Fifth Avenue Peace Parade Committee, and Vietnam veteran Jan Barry Crumb to attract Vietnam veterans to the antiwar movement through a May 30, 1967 VFP Memorial Day demonstration. During this demonstration Crumb recruited five veterans, who joined him to convene the first meeting of the VVAW on June 1, 1967. VFP continued to support the VVAW as it grew and expanded, and remained particularly close to the VVAW in certain regional branches such as the Chicago VVAW. NOTE: There is also a present-day group called Veterans for Peace that was formally founded in 1985.