[kcvl]

In 1991 the Senate created the Select Senate Committee on POW/MIA Affairs to investigate the possibility that U.S. prisoners of war and soldiers designated missing in action were still alive in Vietnam. Acting as chairman, Kerry helped persuade the group to vote unanimously that no American servicemen still remained in Vietnam. In doing so, he helped begin the process of normalizing U.S.-Vietnamese relations.

But Kerry's participation in the Committee became controversial in December 1992 when Hanoi announced that it had awarded Colliers International, a Boston-based real estate company, an exclusive deal to develop its commercial real estate potentially worth billions. Stuart Forbes, the CEO of Colliers, is Kerry's cousin.

[dennisw]

Thanks. Kerry is Forbes-Winthop on his mother's side and all Jewish (same as me!) on his father's side. He never ever ever ever was forthright about this when he ran for office in the people's republic of Massachusetts. He always pretended he was Irish.

(I lived *was trapped there* for 25 years) Go look up Forbes family and Winthrop family on google. Winthrop was the first governor of Massachusetts