Posted on 10/18/2004 6:32:56 PM PDT by Fatalis
EXCERPT FROM CAMPBELL'S DIARY:
See entire selection at: http://lists.village.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Texts/Narrative/Campbell_Oslo.html
Day 3: Friday, June 18th, Moscow
Up early for breakfast. I went with Tamara to get a photo for my visa. Had a good personal talk with her. Then all of us met with the Chargé d'Affairs of North Vietnam (DRV) at his office. Very good meeting. Returned for lunch. Many of us had been requesting to go to the countryside and this was promised but never fulfilled. Instead, we met with Comrade Tarasov who is the Assistant Head of the International Department of the Soviet Peace Committee. He was very cold and formal, unlike our Soviet guides and translators, Boris and Tamara. We had dinner, then went to the Kremlin on Tarasov's insistence. We met some Russian student vaudeville performers and exchanged gifts and song. Very moving for all! In the evening we went to the ballet. Returned and had supper. Then we went for a walk in Red Square.
After walking Tamara to the subway stop, Larry, Nathan and I decided to see if we could take off unattended. We walked about a half-mile from our hotel but got tired and stopped in the Hotel Metropol for a drink. Met a Scandinavian pilot and had a short, good talk. He invited us to Stockholm for the 28th of June to his yacht. Went into the bar, had a drink and took in the entertainment. Went back to the hotel and crashed.
Day 7: Tuesday, June 22nd, Oslo
Awoke early, had breakfast, then we all checked out of the hotel. We went to the conference, listened to the Vietnamese witnesses, Don Luce, then our own testimony. First Danny, then Nate, me, then Randy, it went well.
Our group then had a meeting with the DRV delegation in the conference room. One of the members of the PRG delegation, Nguyen Van Tien, and the President of the DRV Supreme Court, Pham Van Bach, were there. Meeting was good and we were invited to meet with Madame Binh in Paris on our way home.
We then went to check into a hotel for the rest of our stay in Oslo. After settling in we went to meet with the Pathet Lao. We soon confronted an American who followed us into Danny's hotel and sat in the lobby with us. I asked him if he worked for the CIA, CID, FBI or the American Embassy. He looked surprised and uneasy, but replied that he was a deserter and studying in Oslo. We left, but Larry hung back and noticed him leave the hotel and get into a Norwegian police car up the street and drive away!?
The meeting with the Pathet Lao delegation was intense and emotional. General Sinkapo welcomed us; we exchanged gifts and they gave us pictures of two American pilots killed in Laos so that we could notify their families. General Sinkapo told us we were his "little brothers" and promised to help us whenever we needed him. After the meeting we went back to our hotels and slept.
Day 15: Wednesday, June 30, Paris
Woke, had breakfast, and called the PRG delegation only to find out our meeting with Madam Binh would have to be postponed because of imminent developments in the peace talks. That evening we went to hear Sartre speak to a large audience at a meeting to protest the impending destruction of Les Halles. Larry wrote a note expressing our support for the students' and workers' struggle to retain Les Halles and when it was read aloud from the podium, we were asked to stand and we received a prolonged, enthusiastic standing ovation.
Later, accompanying three French students to the site of the Les Halles demonstration, I just barely escaped the French riot police when they closed in to violently break up the crowds.
Day 16: Thursday, July 1st, Paris
Went to the hotel where the Peace Talks were being held. I had coffee in a cafe across the street and was soon joined by Larry, Nathan, Karen and Danny. Ambassador David Bruce arrived and the American tourists clapped and waved. Madam Binh arrived, we clapped, she waved, and we were seized by the French police.
After ten minutes of questioning in a side alley, Larry and I were released (we had reacted calmly), Danny and Karen were taken away (they had reacted with verbal hostility), as was Nathan (he didn't have his passport with him).
Representatives of CBS TV filmed the incident and later offered Larry and me their help. We explained who we were and why we were there, but thanked them and declined their help. Later, Bart showed up at the French police station with Nate's passport and all three were released.
Interesting. Was Kerry with them during this visit with Mrs. Binh in Paris?
Well if he is a real war criminal why hasn't he been prosecuted and served time in prison??? I say lets try him in court since he wants to be recognized as a real war criminal and make sure he does time.
See this thread.
It said MANY, not all, so they are protected by what they said in the film. This is just a strong arm tactic by the probable communist IMO!
This man has been defamed ( even if it was only by association to many who were frauds in that horrific anti-war vet scum)...he is not a fraud, he is, indeed, a WAR CRIMINAL. He deserves his appropriate title.
Wonder if this Campbell idiot understands that on the witness stand he may have his allegations challenged by Marines who were there. On the stand, if the jury hears one lie they can often assume nothing the witness says is true. I think the Stolen Honor producers would enjoy a lawsuit more than Campbell. Watch for this suit to be dropped once Campbell realizes they aren't backing down.
Thanks for the ping.
In Campbell's lawsuit, at delawareonline.com, the professor says that he was released from active duty with the Marines on Feb.10,1970, and was in the Inactive Reserves until 1973.
His meetings with the Communists in Oslo, Moscow, Rome, Paris,etc. were when he was Inactive Reserve.
Also in the lawsuit, he appeared on Hardball on 9-9-04 and said there was only one person in VVAW that was "uncovered" as having been a sergeant when he said he was a captain.(Al Hubbard-Co-Founder)
Mr.Campbell seems to have missed a few of the "witnesses".
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