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Thank you for your post. I wish you had posted earlier. Of course IT could have told me as well. Instead he denied the connection.

Since you are in the business of research you can well imagine my concern when I saw what seemed to be someone else's research being bruited here before theirs was published. I had talked to Lipscomb and he said that he and nobody he knew had given the material to FRN or Swett.

Perhaps you should have told him before after midnight last night that that was what you were doing. I would think that would have been a professional courtesy. But that is between you and Lipscomb. If you go back to my first posts on this you will see that I was only trying to protect somebody's work. If I or Lipscomb had been told what was going on behind the scenes, I wouldn't have posted what I did. Instead it was denied.

Thanks again for your (albeit tardy) explanation.

I strongly support the work Scott Swett is doing with www.wintersoldier.com to archive research on John Kerry and the VVAW. Making this site a strong repository of original materials will make reference in the debate much more available to a wide audience. I also applaud the work Tom Lipscomb and the NY Sun are doing on the story. Today's editorial in the NY Sun utilizes the public record stories I uncovered.

The Sun writes today: "And if the discussion of the assassination plot was so troubling that it was worth resigning as a leader of the group, why did you continue to represent the group in public at events like a speech at Dartmouth College on January 11, 1972, where an account in the New York Times described you as a "spokesman for the Vietnam Veterans Against the War?" Or at a Washington protest meeting on January 26, 1972, coverage of which in the Times also described Mr. Kerry as "a leader of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War"?

If anyone wants to see the actual articles from the NY Times that the Sun editorial references, you can now go to www.wintersoldier.com where the articles are archived under "Documents."

Both efforts utilized research I uncovered and supplied. Having the research utilized both in the news media and on the Internet will make even more compelling the demand that Kerry answer the substantive points as now documented.

Jerome R. Corsi, "jrlc" on FR.